Weekly Report - 20 September 2012 (WR-12-37)

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller tried to put some colour on the canvas but her palette made it difficult to create anything other than a bleak picture. Speaking at the annual conference of the ruling People’s National Party (PNP) on 15 September, Simpson Miller devoted some time to discussing investment projects her government had secured since the PNP came to power last December. Beyond this, however, she said the economy “is not good”; she lamented the size of the punitive debt bequeathed to her by the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) government; and she offered only “some difficult choices today in order to have a better tomorrow”.

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