Alison Stone Roofe is a part-time lecturer of International Relations at the University of the West Indies, and brings with her 20 years working experience in the ministry.

Ambassador to Washington coming home in March

The Simpson Miller-led People’s National Party won 42 of the 63 parliamentary seats in the December 29 polls, with the remaining 21 going to the Jamaica Labour Party.

The new leader will contend with rising debt and high unemployment.

The latest Jamaica Gleaner-commissioned Bill Johnson poll shows that the JLP and the PNP are in a statistical dead heat.

The JLP’s main challenge will come from the Portia Simpson Miller-led People’s National Party (PNP), which declared on Saturday that was ready to go to the polls.

According to media reports, the interim leader has not been able to secure financing for a multi-million dollar plan for party operations ahead of the next general elections.

Holness was first elected to Parliament in 1997, at the age of 25, and was once special assistant to former Prime Minister Edward Seaga, who was chief of the Labor Party until Golding took over in 2005.

West recalled one Illinois husband and wife who fell from earning $100,000 a year to $15,000. The couple experienced a shift in perspective that the professor hopes will resonate with viewers.

Prime Minister Bruce Golding said questions about the role he played in the Coke saga, which he said affected him deeply, have remained a source of concern

Prime Minister Bruce Golding to resign as political leader of the Jamaica Labor Party.

The 85-year-old Wade is planning to run for a third term in next year’s election, exploiting a loophole in the constitution which allows a maximum of two terms.

Saurel Jacinthe, president of the Chamber of Deputies, told The Associated Press that Haitian President Michel Martelly picked Garry Conille as his third nominee for Haiti’s head of government.

Not all the missteps that President Obama has made have been entirely his fault. But he is going to have a lot of work to do in the next four months in order to win back disaffected supporters. When he first came to power the president promised to usher in a new era of cooperation with the Republicans.

The process is being closely watched because California has one of the few citizen-led panels in the nation. It also has implications for the state’s legislative and congressional districts. The commission will release the first draft of maps Friday and hand in a final version in August.