KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – Nearly two million Jamaicans are eligible to cast ballots for a new government on Thursday with the two major political parties – the ruling Jamaica labour Party (JLP) and the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP) – equally confident of winning, even though opinion polls support a victory for Prime Minister Andrew Holness’s JLP. “As Prime Minister of Jamaica and leader of the stronger team, I have never taken for granted the trust and confidence invested in us by Jamaica,” Holness, 48, has said on the eve of the polls, adding “after four years, while there is more to be done, we are proud to report that we have been moving Jamaica in the right direction”. But Dr. Peter Phillips, 70, the former finance minister, who is leading the PNP into the election for the first time, is confident that the party will reverse…
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Bob Marley's 'One Love' Re-released to Help Children…
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Caribbean American Congresswoman Reintroduces…
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Jamaica to Deploy More Health Workers as it Prepares…
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PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, CMC – Haiti records on average one new case of the coronavirus (COVID-19) every 7 minutes as the French-speaking Caribbean Community (CARICOM) country recorded nearly 500 case...
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