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LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 19 January 2017

CARIBBEAN POINTERS

*** BUNTING PULLS OUT OF JAMAICA’S PNP LEADERSHIP RACE. The decision by former Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson Miller (2006-2007; 2012-2016) to step down later this year from the leadership of the People’s National Party (PNP) has given the party a headache. As political commentator Martin Henry put it in comments to the Jamaica Observer: “She’s far and away one of the most popular politicians that Jamaica has ever produced, in the same sort of league as Michael Manley. She has tremendous grass roots support among PNP supporters.”

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