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v. t. e. General elections were held in Jamaica on Thursday, 3 September 2020 [1] to elect 63 members of Parliament. As the constitution stipulates a five-year parliamentary term, [2] the next elections were not expected until between 25 February and 10 June 2021.
v. t. e. The Parliament of Jamaica (Jamaican Patois: Paaliment a Jumieka) is the legislative branch of the government of Jamaica. It consists of three elements: The Crown (represented by the Governor-General), the appointed Senate and the directly elected House of Representatives. The Senate, the Upper House, is the direct successor of a pre ...
Phillip Paulwell (born 14 January 1962) is a Jamaican politician. Paulwell is the current Member of Parliament for the constituency of Kingston East and Port Royal and former Minister of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining STEM [1] in the People's National Party administration, which has formed the Government of Jamaica following the party's electoral victory in the December 2011 General ...
Andrew Holness. Andrew Michael Holness, ON PC (born 22 July 1972) is a Jamaican politician who has served as Prime Minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016, having previously served from 2011 to 2012, and as Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) since 2011. Holness previously served as prime minister from 23 October 2011 to 5 January 2012.
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 ...
Voters must be 18 years and over and be a citizen of Jamaica or a Commonwealth citizen. [ 4 ] The leader of the party commanding a majority of support in the House of Representatives is called on by the Governor General to form a government as Prime Minister, [ 5 ] while the leader of the largest group or coalition not in government becomes the ...
Harvard University. Fayval Shirley Williams (born 28 May 1958) is a Jamaican politician who is the Minister of Education, Youth and Information and the Member of Parliament for the St Andrew Eastern constituency. [1][2] Williams had previously been the minister in the Ministry of Science, Energy and Technology as well as the minister without ...
since 8 September 2022. Governor-General. Patrick L. Allen. since 26 February 2009. Speaker of the House of Representatives. Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, JLP. since 15 September 2020. President of the Senate. Thomas Tavares-Finson, JLP.