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Errald Miller. . (m. 1998) . Alma mater. Union Institute and University. Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller ON (born 12 December 1945) is a Jamaican former politician. [2] She served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. [3] She was the leader of the People's National Party ...
Portia Simpson-Miller is Jamaica's first woman prime minister (2006-2007) and (2011-2016). Women in Jamaica gained the right to vote in 1919, but that right was subject to property and income requirements. [3] By 1917 there was a branch of the Women's Citizens League was established. [4] The country was granted full adult suffrage on November ...
Saint Andrew South Western is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Representatives of the Jamaican Parliament. It elects one Member of Parliament MP by the first past the post system of election. The constituency was created in 1959. It is currently represented by the Dr Angela Brown-Burke of the PNP.
Portia Simpson-Miller (born 1945) 30 March 2006: 11 September 2007: 1 year, 165 days: PNP ...
Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller announced the date of the general election on 31 January 2016. The nomination date of 9 February 2016 was also announced. The election can be considered as having been called early, as it was constitutionally due between 29 December 2016 (the date in 2011 of the previous general election) and 16 April 2017 (within five years and three months of the date in ...
However, at a televised debate in late December 2011 between opposition leader (and former prime minister) Portia Simpson-Miller of the People's National Party (PNP) and then-Prime Minister Andrew Holness, Simpson-Miller said she would consider appointing anyone she felt was most qualified for her cabinet, regardless of sexual orientation, [47 ...
Adam Stewart. Gordon "Butch" Stewart. George Stiebel, trader and entrepreneur who became Jamaica's first black millionaire. Tom Tavares-Finson, lawyer. Gail Vaz-Oxlade, financial adviser, TV personality. James S. Watson, one of the first Black Americans elected as a judge in the state of New York.
v. t. e. In Jamaica, the Leader of the Opposition (officially the Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition) is the leader of the largest political party in the House of Representatives that is not in government. The Leader of the Opposition is seen as the alternative Prime Minister and leads the Shadow Cabinet of Jamaica.