ST CATHERINE, Jamaica — Prime Minister and People’s National Party (PNP) President Portia Simpson Miller says she will announce an election date when her master “touches” her.

“…You will be appropriately informed when my master touches me and say ‘my daughter go now’,” Simpson Miller told supporters gathered for a mass rally at Independence City in Portmore, St Catherine a short while ago.

She said she would travel around the country and “feel the pulse” before announcing the general election date.

At the same time, the party president urged Comrades to get ready because she could “feel the victory”.

The two main political parties – the PNP and the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party – have began campaigning across the island.

The general election, however, is due between December 29, 2016 (the day of the previous election in 2011) and April 16, 2017 (within three months of the date of the first sitting of the new Parliament on 17 January 2012).

The decision on when Jamaicans go to the polls is the prerogative of the prime minister.

Kimone Francis