KINGSTON, Jamaica – Faye Reid-Jacobs, the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) candidate who unsuccessfully contested the December 1 by-election in Westmoreland Central following the death of then Agriculture Minister Roger Clarke, is suspected to have committed suicide on Sunday night.

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Reports from the Jamaica Constabulary Force’s Corporate Communications Unit are that Reid-Jacobs allegedly ingested a chemical substance at her Long Mountain, upper St Andrew home about 6:30 pm.

She was taken to hospital where she was pronounced dead about 8:20 pm, the police say.

Reid-Jacobs, a financial consultant, polled 6,268 to the People’s National Party’s Dwayne Vaz, who polled 8,720, in the by-election.

She later tendered her resignation in September 2015 as the party’s standard-bearer in the constituency, citing inadequate financial resources needed to mount her campaign in a bid to wrest the seat from the PNP in the general elections, which were held in February 2016.

Reid-Jacobs, a banker by profession, studied banking and finance and international human resource management and organisational behaviour.

She held senior executive positions in major Caribbean banks and had continued to use her expertise to serve the region’s banking and financial services sector.

Reid-Jacobs was also a founding director of Caribbean Integrated Financial Services Ltd and was an associate of the Chartered Institute of Bankers (London) and a Fellow of the IFS School of Finance (formerly the Chartered Institute of Bankers, London), who had accreditation from the University of London at the Master’s level in International Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviours.

She was also listed in the Who’s Who of Professionals in 2000 and the Jamaica Directory of Personalities.