The View from Europe: At last a time for action on the CSME – By David Jessop

Commentary: By David Jessop

David Jessop

At the conclusion of the recent special summit in Trinidad, Caribbean Community (CARICOM) heads of government issued the ‘St Ann’s Declaration’. It set out in the dusty language of officialese the measures being taken to breathe life into the stalled CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME).

However, far more interesting and accessible was a poorly reported but unusually detailed press conference held after the summit and available on YouTube. There, Barbados’ prime minister, Mia Mottley; Jamaica’s prime minister, Andrew Holness; Trinidad’s prime minister,Andrew Holness; and CARICOM’s secretary general, Irwin LaRocque, spelt out just how heads intend resuscitating the CSME, by when, and what could happen should they fail.         

Jamaica’s Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller Defeated In General Elections

Jamaica’s First Female Prime Minister Suffers Stunning Defeat In General Elections

Jamaica PM Andrew Holness

Published on Feb 26 2016. News Americas.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, Fri. Feb. 26, 2016: Jamaica’s People’s National Party and its first female Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller were last night handed a stunning defeat in Thursday’s general elections.

Despite predictions in many quarters that the PNP and Simpson-Miller were headed for another term, the opposition Jamaica Labour Party led by Andrew Holness, managed to take the win, claiming 33 of the 63 seats in the elections. The PNP only managed to secure win 30 seats, following a trend across the Caribbean that has only been bucked in recent elections in Belize.

Read more-  Jamaica Elections 2016

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Different strokes: General elections in Guyana and Jamaica

By STABROEK NEWS  |  COMMENTS  |  EDITORIAL | TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2012

A matter of mere hours after the close of poll following Jamaica’s December 29 general elections, Portia Simpson-Miller, perhaps surprisingly, only one of four women ever to be elected head of government in the Commonwealth Caribbean, had delivered her victory speech; outgoing Prime Minister Andrew Holness had conceded defeat, his two-month tenure as the country’s youngest ever prime minister having been the shortest ever. It was also the first time ever that a political party had been voted out of office in Jamaica after only a single term.

As an aside, Andrew Holness’ defeat raised – though in an entirely different context – a matter that has also been the subject of much public discourse in Guyana, namely, the pension entitlement of an outgoing head of government.     read more

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PNP delivers crushing 41-22 seat defeat to JLP

Jamaica’s General Elections 2011:

PNP delivers crushing 41-22 seat defeat to JLP

Posted By Stabroek News On December 30, 2011

(Jamaica Observer) The People’s National Party (PNP) sent the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) back into Opposition after scoring a crushing 41-22-seat victory in yesterday’s 16th general election that pollsters and analysts had said was mostly too close to call.

A sober but triumphant Simpson Miller told jubilant supporters at PNP headquarters last night that she was thankful to the Jamaican people and Prime Minister Andrew Holness who, she said, called and congratulated her earlier. “He was very gracious.”

She urged comrades to greet supporters of the losing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) with love in an obvious extension of the olive branch after what was a vigorous and often bitter campaign.