Politics
Jamaica elections update: Andrew Holness and Portia Simpson-Miller almost tied
A further 19 percent of Jamaicans now say they don’t know if the country is going in the wrong or right direction. That is about the same as June when 18 percent had responded with a don’t know to the question.
Unemployment, crime and poverty remain the major problems facing the country with financial problems also high on the list of problem areas facing the country.
In the meantime, 35 percent of the country say the Government is doing a good or very good job. That is nine percentage points above the 26 percent who gave the administration a similar rating while it was being led by Bruce Golding in June.
The number of people saying the Government is doing a bad or very bad job has declined to 37 percent from the 44 percent high when Holness replaced Golding.
11 percent of Jamaicans said they were not sure how to rate the performance of the administration while 18 percent say the Government’s performance was neither good nor bad.
The latest Johnson poll was conducted in 84 communities across the island with a sample size of 1,008 and a sampling error of plus or minus 4 percent.
