Daily Gleaner election news, Monday August 27
Written by JamaicaElections.comPortia still ahead in personality contest
WHILE THE Jamaica Labour Party has chopped away at the People’s National Party (PNP) lead in popular support, with both organisations now neck and neck, Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller is still well ahead of her rival Bruce Golding in personal ratings.
VOX POP
The Gleaner took to the streets of the Corporate Area yesterday to get the opinions of a few Jamaicans on the race.
Needed: More women, youths in Senate
A YOUNG breed of politicians, and a standard bearer for women in Jamaican politics, believe that laws should be effected to allow for a certain proportion of the Senate to be made up of women and youths.