Former Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller has been hospitalised.
Preliminary reports are that the former People’s National Party (PNP) president was rushed to a Corporate Area hospital, where she was admitted for observation.
The 77-year-old is reportedly responding well to treatment, sources have disclosed.
Simpson-Miller has appeared sparingly in public since she stepped down as PNP president and Opposition leader in 2017.
She first became PNP president on February 25, 2006, when she defeated Drs Peter Phillips, Omar Davies and Karl Blythe in the party’s presidential election to replace PJ Patterson, who had decided to retire.
She became prime minister on March 20, 2006, until she lost her first election as PNP president in 2007, but led her party to victory in the December 2011 General Election, giving her a second tenure as prime minister.
Simpson-Miller lost the 2016 elections and was once again Opposition leader, until she handed over leadership of the PNP to Dr Peter Phillips in 2017.
