Minutes before polling opened, the party's internal director of elections, Julian Robinson, confirmed the six nominations.

"Based on the directions from the NEC (National Executive Council) those are the nominations. We are now going to proceed to the election of the president and the four vice presidents," he said.

About 3,400 delegates are expected to vote in the elections.

Meanwhile, all five vice presidential candidates have erected tents for the screening of delegates before they can proceed to the voting area where further screening is done by the Electoral Office of Jamaica.

Some tents appeared livelier than others with incumbent vice president Arscott showing the least number of individuals whether delegates or supporters.

The tents of Hanna and Brown Burke, meanwhile showed the highest level of organisation up to the start of voting.

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The anti-Brexit, pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) won 48 of Scotland’s 59 seats by thrashing both the Conservatives and Labour.

Nicola Sturgeon, SNP leader and first minister of Scotland, said her semi-autonomous government in Edinburgh would next week publish a detailed case for a transfer of power from London that would allow her to hold a second referendum on Scottish independence. Scots voted in 2014 to stay in the UK.

However, Johnson told Sturgeon by phone on Friday he opposed another referendum, prompting Sturgeon to say her political mandate must be respected, “just as he expects his mandate to be respected”.

In Northern Ireland, supporters of a united Ireland won more seats than those in the province who want to remain part of the United Kingdom for the first time since