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Andrew nowhere to be found

Published:Tuesday | January 10, 2012 | 12:00 AM
Images of Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller and former Prime Minister Bruce Golding on the wall in the Cabinet room at Jamaica House. - Norman Grindley/Chief Photographer

ON ONE side of the room in which the Cabinet meets at Jamaica House, hangs paintings of the four persons to have led Jamaica from 1944 to 1972.

Sir Alexander Bustamante, Norman Manley, Donald Sangster and Hugh Shearer all survey the room from the western end.

Staring back at them from the other side of the room are Edward Seaga, Michael Manley, P.J. Patterson, Portia Simpson Miller and Bruce Golding.

Andrew Holness' picture is not there, and Golding's image is unlike that of the other leaders - it is a photograph while the others are paintings.

Up to press time yesterday, Jamaica House did not provide an explanation for Holness' missing image.

Holness, 39, is the youngest person to become prime minister in Jamaica's history. He is also the second shortest serving, lasting just over two months from October 23, 2011 to January 5, 2012.