KINGSTON, Jamaica – Two opinion polls published here today have given the ruling Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) the lead to win the November 29 general elections.
The polls have also shown that newly appointed Prime Minister Andrew Holness, 39, appears to be the favourite among the electorate to lead Jamaica instead of 66-year-old Portia Simpson Miller, the country’s first woman prime minister and leader of the main opposition People’s National Party (PNP).
A poll conducted for the Observer newspaper by Don Anderson and his Market Research Services team, shows that the majority of Jamaicans believe that Prime Minister Holness is a better leader than Simpson Miller to represent the country locally and overseas.
The poll was conducted between December 5 and 11 with 1 000 registered voters in all parishes in the island interviewed. It has a margin of error of plus or minus three per cent. (CMC)
