AS Jamaica welcomes US President Barack Obama on his first visit to the island, former Jamaica Labour Party senator David Panton is backing Republican candidate Ted Cruz to become the next American president. Republican senator Cruz became the first US politician to announce his candidacy for the American presidency recently. Widely viewed as an ultra-conservative, he has the full support of his close friend, Panton -- now chairman of his own PCH holdings, an investment company based in Atlanta, Georgia. Outside of politics, Obama, Cruz and Panton all share at least one thing in common -- they worked for the...