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Jamaican opposition party wins election-television
04 Sep 2007 03:34:20 GMT
Source: Reuters
KINGSTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - The opposition Jamaica Labour Party appears to have won a cliffhanger national election on Monday, ending more than 18 years in power for the People's National Party, CVM television and Television Jamaica said.

The JLP, led by veteran politician Bruce Golding, had won 31 of 60 parliamentary seats to oust the ruling PNP and Portia Simpson Miller, Jamaica's first woman prime minister, the two networks said.

Simpson Miller has already announced she was not conceding defeat and her party would demand recounts.
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A resident checks the damage to her home after Hurricane Dean passed the Bull Bay area in Kingston August 20, 2007. A strengthening Hurricane Dean took aim at Mexico's Yucatan on Monday after battering Jamaica's southern coast, flooding its capital and littering streets with broken trees and roofs during a Caribbean rampage that has killed at least nine people. Dean was an "extremely dangerous" Category 4 hurricane, the second-highest on the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale, and the U.S. National Hurricane Center said it could strengthen to a potentially catastrophic Category 5.



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