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Governors of Jamaica (1690–1962) The Earl of Inchiquin, 1690–16 January 1692 [1] John White, 1691–22 August 1692, [2] acting. John Bourden, 1692–1693, acting. Sir William Beeston, March 1693–January 1702, acting to 1699. William Selwyn, Jan-April 1702 (died in office) Peter Beckford, 1702, acting. Thomas Handasyd, 1702–1711, acting ...
The governor-general of Jamaica ( Jamaican Patois: Gobna-Jinaral a Jumieka) [1] is the representative of the Jamaican monarch, currently King Charles III, in Jamaica. The governor-general is appointed by the monarch on the recommendation of the prime minister of Jamaica. The functions of the governor-general include appointing ministers, judges ...
Alma mater. Andrews University. Sir Patrick Linton Allen ON GCMG CD KStJ (born 7 February 1951) is a Jamaican statesman and former Seventh-day Adventist pastor, who has served as the sixth and current governor-general of Jamaica since 26 February 2009. The fourth of five children in a family of subsistence farmers, Allen spent over a decade as ...
H. George Haldane. Lord Archibald Hamilton. Thomas Handasyd. Augustus Hemming. Peter Heywood (governor) John Huggins (colonial administrator) Robert Hunter (colonial administrator)
On 1 August 1991, he became the fourth Governor-General of Jamaica, succeeding Florizel Glasspole. Queen Elizabeth visited Jamaica in 1994 and 2002 while Cooke was Governor-General. He retired on 15 February 2006, and became the first Governor-General to invest his successor, Kenneth Octavius Hall. Afterwards, Cooke was appointed Chancellor of ...
Sir Thomas Modyford was appointed Governor of Jamaica, by commission dated 15 February 1664 and made a Baronet. [5] He arrived in Jamaica 4 June 1664, with seven hundred planters and their slaves, marking the wholesale introduction of a slavery-based plantation economy in Jamaica. [6] The move was marked by tragedy for Modyford however, whose ...
Politics in Jamaica takes place in the framework of a representative parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The 1962 Constitution of Jamaica established a parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those of the United Kingdom. As the head of state, King Charles III - on the advice of the Prime Minister ...
Z. Edward Zacca. Categories: Government of Jamaica. Governors-general. Governors-General of Commonwealth countries. Political office-holders in Jamaica. Jamaica and the Commonwealth of Nations.