Voters replaced the ruling center-right Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) on December 29 in national elections after four years in power . . . former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller’s center-left People’s National Party (PNP) won a landslide 41-22 seat advantage in the House of Representatives despite polls that had predicted a comfortable victory for current Prime Minister Andrew Holness, who has served for only two months . . . Holness was selected as Prime Minister in October after his predecessor Bruce Golding resigned . . . the PNP had led Kingston for 18 years before losing in 2007 . . . Holness was unable to persuade voters that he represented a change in the JLP and that he could reliably improve Kingston’s struggling economy . . . Simpson Miller will likely propose a new jobs program as well as additional austerity measures in order to satisfy the conditions of a $1.27 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund that was granted to Jamaica last year.