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Women Surge
Historic Number of Women Elected to Jamaica's Parliament
During the election campaigns, both parties highlighted the importance of women in politics and committed themselves to ensuring more women had a seat at the table. In the last JLP administration, several female politicians were among the top-performing ministers, therefore it's no surprise they were able to secure an impressive 14 seats for the party, at a win rate of 77.8 percent. With women now represented in both the Upper and Lower House, the next challenge will be for women to excel in Parliament. Meet the exceptional experienced and qualified 18 hoping to bring change in Jamaica:
Listening to the noise surrounding the campaigns for the pending presidential elections, it appears as if the Democratic presidential ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has already counted South Florida's African-American and CaribbeanAmerican votes in their column. But, they should be cautioned, “not so fast.” For successive presidential cycles, the Democratic Party has assumed that the Black vote—consisting of African Americans, and Caribbean Americans—is theirs. While the majority of the Black voters in the region are registered Democrats, there is no guarantee they will turn out to the polls in sufficient numbers boost the Democratic ticket's victory. The Democratic Party and the Biden/Harris ticket must be aware that there's much work to done in the Black community to guarantee the votes expected. CNW research indicates the CaribbeanAmerican vote declined steadily from a high of 78 percent in the 2008 election to 68 percent in 2016. Over the same period the African-American vote declined from 79 percent to 64 percent. It's no secret that if the combined Black vote was a few percentages higher, Hillary Clinton may have carried Florida in 2016. That's how pivotal the potential of the combined Black vote is in South Florida. According to Miami political analyst Michael Brandt, “The Democrats must exercise aggressive effort in the Black community to maximize this vote.”
Scores of Newcomers
Kerensia Morrison: This outspoken educator first entered representational politics in 2016, and this year she beat the PNP's Oswest Senior-Smith by a very convincing margin to retain her seat.
Dems, Work For Our Votes! By Garth A. Rose
By Sheri-Kae McLeod
If current political trends are anything to go by, Jamaicans are putting more trust in women as qualified and competent political leaders. At home and across the diaspora, Jamaicans have shown overwhelming support for Democratic vice-presidential candidate Senator Kamala Harris, who is of Jamaican descent. And in Jamaica, a record 30 Jamaican women, 18 from the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) and 12 from the People's National Party (PNP) contested the recent September 3 general elections. Of these, an exceptional 18 were victorious, pushing the percentage of women in the Jamaican parliament to a record 28.5 percent.
THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Rhoda Crawford: The 31-yearold newcomer created one of the most shocking defeats of the election by beating former Minister of National Security Peter Bunting in Manchester Central. The educator has big plans for the constituency.
Courting The CaribbeanAmerican Vote
Tamika Davis: The attorneyat-law shook things up in Hanover Western by defeating PNP incumbent, Ian Hayles. The young lawyer, who has run a private practice for 10 years, has also served the country as a teacher.
Potential voters are incensed that with less than eight weeks to November 3, and ballots ready to be mailed out in two weeks, there's not sufficient buzz from the Democratic ticket among South Florida's Caribbean American community. “We aren't hearing or seeing ads on
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