CARICOM Observing Jamaican Vote

By: - December 26th, 2011

Above: CARICOM headquarters in Georgetown

By the Caribbean Journal staff

The Caribbean Community is mounting a mission to observe elections in Jamaica on Thursday.

The CARICOM Electoral Observer Mission will be led by Winston O’Neale Estwick, chief elections officer of Barbados, and will include representatives from Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, St Kitts and Nevis, Suriname and the CARICOM Secretariat.

The team is in Jamaica beginning Monday.

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