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Faces tight race

Portia Simpson Miller

KINGSTON: Jamaica’s first woman head of state faced being ousted in elections on Monday after only 18 months in office because of violent crime and a sputtering economy that forces many to abandon their homeland for jobs abroad. Several polls give a slight edge to the Jamaica Labor Party, led by Bruce Golding, over Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller’s People’s National Party, which has been in power. Soldiers guarded against violence during elections in the 1970s and 1980s. The parties do not have stark ideological differences and have duelled over which can do a better job of reviving economy, improving schools and reducing one of world’s highest homicide rates. — AP

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