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People's National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller might have to put plans for her birthday celebrations on hold while the party's campaign director, Dr Peter Phillips, might have to plan a late celebration.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced that nomination day for the next general election will be Monday December 12, the day that Simpson Miller turns 66.
Simpson Miller was born on December 12, 1945 in Wood Hall, St Catherine and worked her way into the job of leader of the PNP.
She was also Jamaica's first female prime minister.
While she could celebrate after the nomination exercise is done, for Phillips his celebrations could be muted while he anxiously awaits the verdict of the people.
Phillips will turn 62 on December 28, just before the country goes to the poll.
Julian Robinson, deputy general secretary of the People's National Party
The announcement was a bit of an anticlimax, because it had to be called within a three-day period.
A lot of work has gone into our policy platform in our manifesto which will be presented very shortly. We will be hitting the ground even more energetically in the coming days as we seek to prove that we are best choice.
The Reverend Lenworth Anglin, convenor of the Umbrella Group of Churches
Now that we know the date, I would like from both parties to hear what we are being offered as a people. The country need to see the manifestos and hear the facts, and not the emotional rhetoric we have been hearing.
Milton Samuda, president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce
The private sector is happy that certainty can now be restored to the markets. Nobody likes a December election, but investors can now start to make plans and people generally can breathe a sigh of relief.
Oneil Grant, president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association
The labour movement is now anticipating that the decision will be made quickly as to who we are going to be sitting down with early next year to iron out an agreement for public-sector workers. We welcome the calling of the elections and hope that there won't be any change in direction in the public-sector salary negotiations.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday announced that nomination day for the next general election will be Monday December 12, the day that Simpson Miller turns 66.
Simpson Miller was born on December 12, 1945 in Wood Hall, St Catherine and worked her way into the job of leader of the PNP.
She was also Jamaica's first female prime minister.
While she could celebrate after the nomination exercise is done, for Phillips his celebrations could be muted while he anxiously awaits the verdict of the people.
Phillips will turn 62 on December 28, just before the country goes to the poll.
Julian Robinson, deputy general secretary of the People's National Party
The announcement was a bit of an anticlimax, because it had to be called within a three-day period.
A lot of work has gone into our policy platform in our manifesto which will be presented very shortly. We will be hitting the ground even more energetically in the coming days as we seek to prove that we are best choice.
The Reverend Lenworth Anglin, convenor of the Umbrella Group of Churches
Now that we know the date, I would like from both parties to hear what we are being offered as a people. The country need to see the manifestos and hear the facts, and not the emotional rhetoric we have been hearing.
Milton Samuda, president of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce
The private sector is happy that certainty can now be restored to the markets. Nobody likes a December election, but investors can now start to make plans and people generally can breathe a sigh of relief.
Oneil Grant, president of the Jamaica Civil Service Association
The labour movement is now anticipating that the decision will be made quickly as to who we are going to be sitting down with early next year to iron out an agreement for public-sector workers. We welcome the calling of the elections and hope that there won't be any change in direction in the public-sector salary negotiations.