Jimmy Carter to Monitor Elections

Former President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter arrived in Jamaica to monitor national elections and said he believed the Caribbean nation could hold a safe vote despite recent campaign violence.

Carter, who leads a delegation of about 60 foreign observers for the elections Wednesday, said he believed Jamaica’s political leaders understood that their nation’s ability to hold safe elections would play a big role in its economic prosperity. Jamaica, with a population of 2.7 million, has one of the world’s highest murder rates, with an average of three killings a day last year -- violence that many analysts blame for sagging tourism and an economy that has barely grown in a decade.