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Prime Min­is­ter An­drew Hol­ness Sun­day an­nounced Sep­tem­ber 3 as the date for the gen­er­al elec­tions in Ja­maica as his rul­ing Ja­maica Labour Par­ty (JLP) seeks a third con­sec­u­tive term in of­fice.

Nom­i­na­tion Day will be Au­gust 18.

Hol­ness, 53, ad­dress­ing a ral­ly at Half Way Tree, a neigh­bour­hood in the city of Kingston, told sup­port­ers that he had ear­li­er on Sun­day in­formed the Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al Sir Patrick Allen of the de­ci­sion to call the poll.