**3. Results**

This section outlines the classification of tweets downloaded for each of the four topical issues. It shows how sentiment analysis of tweets can be used to explore the citizens perceptions on the topical issues selected. **Figure 1** below shows the summary and classification of such tweets.

Citizens from varying demographics express their opinions on Twitter on several topical issues. The four step methodology was executed and tweets were classified by the machine learning algorithms as shown in **Figure 1**. Barack Obama's visit to Jamaica represented the fourth bar among the quartet of tweets, received 2583 positive tweets and 658 negative tweets and the highest total tweets among the 4 topics investigated.

The next section will present results on polarity of topical issues for tweets and no-retweets.
