Latest Election News

#JaVotes2020 | Mosquitoes Outnumber Voters At HWT Primary

Erica Virtue/Senior Gleaner Writer Polling division 35 at Half Way Tree primary school in the constituency of St Andrew East Central, accepted its first elector at 7:03 am this morning. The process took six minutes, but three minutes later,...

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#JaVotes2020 | Vaz Confident After Casting Vote

It was a most unusual entrance to the polling station at the Savanna-la-mar High School in Westmoreland Central for the incumbent Dwayne Vaz of the People's National Party (PNP).   Gone were the vuvuzelas. There were also no shouting, no...

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#JaVotes2020 | ‘I Had To Vote’ – Declares 91-Year-Old Man With Shortness Of Breath

Fighting to take what seemingly could have been his last breath, 91-year-old Clifford Comrie of Falmouth Gardens in Trelawny struggled to cast his vote this morning at the Seventh Day Adventist Church Hall in Northern Trelawny. The elderly man, who...

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#JaVotes2020 | PNP Hoping To Hold On To Hanover Western

Voters in Hanover Western had heaping praises for the Electoral Office of Jamaica (EOJ), who they say have made the voting process smooth and seamless. Provisions were made for the elderly to be placed at the front of the lines, thereby reducing...

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#JaVotes2020 | St Thomas Seniors Out In Numbers Despite COVID Threat

Akino Ming/Staff Reporter Even as the number of coronavirus cases continue to increase in St Thomas, it did not deter senior citizens, who according to research, are more susceptible to die from the disease, from flocking to polling stations in...

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#JaVotes2020 | 'The Work Starts Tomorrow', Rhoda Rolls Out In Confidence

Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate for Manchester Central Rhoda Crawford has her eyes fixed on the seat of Member of Parliament. Crawford rolled out early this morning in confidence. "Once selected at the close of polls, I intend to stay...

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Election News

PNP Still Reeling From Previous Bitter Contests - New Leader Urged To Foster Unity

Internal campaigns have planted seeds of political division in the People’s National Party (PNP), leaving it badly damaged since 1992, but the temperature has risen exponentially in leadership races since, according to the party’s longest-s

#PNPvotes | Full Text: Lisa Thanks Supporters, Congratulates Golding

Defeated People's National Party (PNP) presidential candidate Lisa Hanna has said thanks to her supporters in Saturday's election. Hanna, the St Ann South Eastern MP was beaten by Mark Golding, the St Andrew South MP, by 296 votes. There was...

#PNPvotes | The Work Begins Tomorrow, Says Victorious Golding

Newly-elected president of the People’s National Party Mark Golding says he is ready to take on a bold new era in the 82-year-old organisation and the work begins tomorrow. Golding was speaking at the party’s Old Hope Road Headquarters...&l