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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 ...
This is a list of the heads of state of Jamaica, from the independence of Jamaica in 1962 to the present day. From 1962 the head of state under the Jamaica Independence Act 1962 is the Monarch of Jamaica, currently Charles III, who is also the King of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms. The King is represented in Jamaica by a ...
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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 ...
Percival Noel James Patterson, ON, OCC, KC (born 10 April 1935), popularly known as P.J. Patterson, is a Jamaican former politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He served in office for 14 years, making him the longest-serving prime minister in Jamaica's history. He was the leader of the People's National ...
The Cabinet of Jamaica is the ultimate decision-making body of the executive within the Westminster system of government in traditional constitutional theory. 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 ...
Hon. Homer Davis - Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development. Hon. J.C. Hutchinson - Ministry of Transport and Mining. Hon. Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn - Ministry of Health and Wellness. Sen, the Hon. Leslie Campbell - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Hon. Marsha Smith - Ministry of Finance and the Public Service.
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 ...