Oil traders Trafigura give their side of the story as a settlement is reached in the toxic waste dumping scandal. He succeeded Bruce Golding as Prime minister, and decided to go to the polls in the 2011 Jamaican general election. Holness previously served as Prime Minister from October 2011 to January 5, 2012. He is the 9th and current Prime Minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016.

'The cost of victory is to keep the commitments we have made.'Simpson Miller became the country's first female leader in 2006. Here is an introduction toColleague Prime Ministers Heads of Delegations Ministers of Trade CARICOM Secretary General Senior Officials and Members of the CARICOM Secretariat Ambassador.The leader of the Jamaica Labor Party, Andrew Holness, was greeted by cheering supporters as he arrived at party headquarters in the capital following the announcement of the results in a hard-fought fight with the People's National Party of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller.Holness, ready to form a government as the new prime minister, pledged to create jobs and grow the economy while improving education and health care.'We don't take it that we have won a prize,' he told the crowd. Since Independence in 1962, Jamaica has been led by nine Prime Ministers, several of whom have led the country for multiple terms. The prime minister is the chief officer of the executive branch of a government. Turnout was around 47 per cent.Under the Westminster system of governance, the head of government is called prime minister.

The country had at least 1,192 slayings in 2015, a roughly 20 per cent increase from the previous year. 'Wages are frozen and there's a lot of arrogance about this government.'Many Jamaicans are also fed up with one of the highest homicide rates in the world, mostly blamed on gangs. It would be chaos if we change now.'But Holness' campaign pledge to make the economy more dynamic with cuts to the income tax and other measures resonates with many in a country with widespread poverty and a youth unemployment rate above 30 per cent.'I'm voting for change,' Velma Johnson said as she waited to cast her ballot. 'We've made a lot of progress with the economy and development. The IMF, however, has praised the government for cutting debt and making other reforms to its economy and the country's stock market was rated among the best performing in the world last year.'It makes no sense we stop the progress now,' said voter Herbert Hall. Her government negotiated a $930 million aid package with the IMF.The Jamaican dollar has declined, the cost of living has gone up and wages have been stagnant.

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