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Weekly Report - 12 January 2012 (WR-12-02)

JAMAICA: Simpson Miller takes back rei(g)ns of power

“A tight fiscal policy, reduction of … the debt to GDP ratio and reduction of chronic unemployment”. These were some of the more predictable pledges made on 5 January in the inauguration speech of Portia Simpson Miller, whose People’s National Party (PNP) staged a dramatic comeback in the recent election amid public discontent over the state of the economy [WR-12-01]. The more headline-grabbing promises, certainly for the British media, however, were two promised constitutional changes – severing colonial links with Britain, “initiat[ing] the process for our detachment from the Monarchy to become a Republic with our own indigenous President, as Head of State”, and with it, to drop the UK’s Privy Council as Jamaica’s final court of appeal.

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