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The official state car for the governor-general of Jamaica is a BMW 740Li, featuring a license plate bearing the Crown. Jamaica shares the person of the sovereign equally with 14 other countries in the Commonwealth of Nations. As the sovereign works and resides predominantly outside of Jamaican borders, the governor-general's primary task is to ...
Ena Collymore-Woodstock OD, MBE (born 10 September 1917) is a Jamaican barrister and magistrate who throughout her career broke many barriers for women. After being orphaned, she joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service and trained as a radar operator, serving in Belgium and Britain.
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 .
On 26 February 2009, he became Jamaica's sixth appointed Governor-General, and eighth overall (two people briefly held the position as acting Governor-General). [10] Although Seventh-day Adventism is Jamaica's largest religion, [ 11 ] Allen was the first Adventist governor-general in Jamaica and the second in the region, after James Carlisle ...
Vidal worked as a lawyer in private practice in Jamaica and her native Trinidad before coming to Belize in 2000. There, she joined the Office of the DPP and later the Attorney-General's Ministry as Crown Counsel, and also worked as a legal advisor for the Belize Police Department and as acting Registrar-General.
In 1655, an English force led by Admiral Sir William Penn and General Robert Venables seized the island. Following their departure, the incumbents successfully held it against Spanish attempts to retake it over the next few years. Admiral Sir William Penn 11 May 1655 – 1655; General Robert Venables, 1655; Edward D'Oyley, 1655–1656, first time
Edris Elaine Trottman [note 1] was born on 19 April 1909 in Linstead, Saint Catherine Parish, in the British crown colony of Jamaica to Alice (née Feurtado) and Robert Henry Trottman. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] She grew up and was educated in Linstead and then moved to Kingston , where she began her career as a clerk at the dry goods store, Sherlock ...
The Governor-General of Jamaica servers as the Chancellor of the orders. Members is conferred by the Governor-General upon the advice of the Prime Minister of Jamaica. [1] Most Jamaican honours allow recipients to place post-nominal letters after their names, and some honours include pre-nominal styles. [2]