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Nigel A. L. Clarke. Nigel Andrew Lincoln Clarke (born 20 October 1971) is Minister of Finance and the Public Service of Jamaica. He is a Jamaican Member of Parliament, company director, business executive and statesman. He has served as chairman or director of over 20 Jamaican public and private sector economic enterprises.
Jamaica and its diplomatic missions worldwide. Headquarters. 21 Dominica Drive, Kingston 5 [1] Agency executive. Kamina Johnson-Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Website. mfaft.gov.jm. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade is the ministry responsible for handling Jamaica's external relations and foreign trade. [2 ...
From 1989 to 1993, Davies was the director-general of the Planning Institute of Jamaica, while also working at the Ministry of Finance and Planning as Special Adviser to the minister. He represented Jamaica as a negotiator at the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Inter-American Development Bank. Davies was elected to ...
London School of Economics ( LLM) Kamina Johnson Smith is a Jamaican attorney-at-law and Senator. Johnson Smith is Jamaica's first female Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Since 2016, Johnson Smith has served concurrently as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade and Leader of Government Business in the Senate.
The Cabinet of Jamaica is the principal instrument of government policy. It consists of the Prime Minister, and a minimum of thirteen other Ministers of Government, who must be members of one of the two Houses of Parliament. Not more than four members of the Cabinet may be members of the Senate. The Minister of Finance must be an elected member ...
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Jamaica: Jamaica – sovereign island nation located on the Island of Jamaica of the Greater Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. [1] It is 234 kilometres (145 mi) long and 80 kilometres (50 mi) at its widest. It lies about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba and ...
The West Indies Federation, [1] [2] also known as the West Indies, [3] [4] the Federation of the West Indies [5] or the West Indian Federation, [6] [7] [8] was a short-lived political union that existed from 3 January 1958 to 31 May 1962. Various islands in the Caribbean that were part of the British Empire, including Trinidad and Tobago ...
The English responded by increasing access land and other resources, and by attracting foreign investment. Between 1950 and 1960 Jamaica experienced high rates of economic growth, due in large part to the growth of the Bauxite mining sector, which went from nonexistent to accounting for over 8% of GDP during the 10-year period.