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The Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP; Jamaican Patois: Jumieka Lieba Paati) is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica, the other being the People's National Party (PNP). While its name might suggest that it is a social democratic party (as is the case for "Labour" parties in several other Commonwealth realms such as Australia, New Zealand ...
The Ministry of Labour and Social Security of Jamaica oversees Social Security and Welfare, Education Affairs and Services, and Labour Relations Employment Services. The head offices of the labour and social security divisions are in Kingston. As of 2020, the Minister of Labour and Social Security is The Honourable Karl Samuda CD, MP
Succeeded by. Derrick McKoy. Marlene Patricia Malahoo Forte KC, MP, JP is a Jamaican politician. She has been the Minister of Legal and Constitutional Affairs since January 2022, [1] and was the Attorney General of Jamaica from 7 March 2016 to 10 January 2022. [2] [3] She served as a Senator for the Jamaica Labour Party from 2009 to 2016, and ...
1982–83 State Minister for Information in the Ministry of Tourism; 1984–89 State Minister in the Office of the Prime Minister, with responsibility for Culture; 1989–92 Minister of State for Youth and Sports; 1982-91 Deputy Leader, Jamaica Labour Party (last nationally elected Deputy Leader at a JLP conference)
The prime minister of Jamaica ( Jamaican Patois: Praim Minista a Jumieka) is Jamaica 's head of government, currently Andrew Holness. Holness, as leader of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), was sworn in as prime minister on 7 September 2020, having been re-elected as a result of the JLP's landslide victory in the 2020 Jamaican general ...
Michael Norman Manley ON OM OCC PC (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, [1] and has been described as a populist.
Alma mater. University of the West Indies. Andrew Michael Holness, ON PC (born 22 July 1972) is a Jamaican politician, who has been the prime minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016, following the 2016 Jamaican general election. [1] He is leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Holness previously served as prime minister from 23 October 2011 ...
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 ...