Jamaica

"Among the findings indicated by post election polls and focus groups, the decision not to participate in the national debate was a fatal error. It contributed to the impression that the party was arrogant and took the electorate for granted."

Political commentators last night suggested that Portia Simpson Miller's departure from the leadership of the People's National Party (PNP) will depend more on the timetable she sets for herself than any other forces within the party.

The People’s National Party (PNP) was confident of victory in the last general election. Polls repeatedly showed that they enjoyed a slim lead over the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) among likely voters.

Gayle's findings signal that the PNP, displaying unconcealed arrogance, rubbed Jamaicans the wrong way when it opted out of a leadership debate, at the 11th hour, to which it had agreed.

Following the People's National Party's (PNP) crashing defeat at the hands of the Jamaica Labour Party, some entertainers shared their views about why the PNP lost.

The National Democratic Movement (NDM) has expressed disappointment in the “tone” of the 2016 election campaign.

We wish to share some of the information that the Jamaica Debates Commission (JDC) has garnered over the 14 years that we have been staging debates.

The Jamaica Debates Commission (JDC) says it has written the general secretaries of both the People’s National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) proposing a new schedule of debates ahead of the February 25 General Elections.

It is unfortunate that the governing People's National Party (PNP) appears intent at avoiding debates between its spokesmen and members of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) - including one between the two party leaders - ahead of the February 25 general election on what seems to us to be contrived and