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Iris Winnifred King née Ewart (1910–2000), was born in Kingston, Jamaica, West Indies, on September 5, 1910.She attended the Kingston Technical High School [1] in Kingston and later the Roosevelt University in Chicago where she studied political science and public administration from 1951-'53.
From 1972 to 1980 he was a senator and an elected member of parliament representing Eastern St. Thomas. Charles was the deputy leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) from 1972 to 1991. [ 1 ] In June 1976, after a state of emergency was declared by the People's National Party , Charles was detained by armed forces and brought to Kingston for ...
Ivan Stewart Lloyd (June 6, 1903 – August 2, 1993) was a Jamaican medical practitioner and politician, representing the People's National Party (PNP). He served as Jamaica's first Leader of the Opposition from 1944 to 1949, Minister of Education and Social Welfare from 1955 to 1957, Minister of Home Affairs from 1957 to 1959, and was Minister of Health between 1959 and 1962.
Charles began his legal career as a judicial clerk in The Supreme Court and The Court of Appeal in Jamaica. He went on to be a senior clerk of court in the parish of Saint Catherine, before moving to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to serve as Crown Counsel. He is now the lead counsel and managing attorney at the Law Offices ...
The Parliament meets at Gordon House at 81 Duke Street, Kingston. [1] It was built in 1960 and named in memory of Jamaican patriot George William Gordon. [2] Construction on a new parliament building directly north of Gordon House was expected to start in early 2021. [3] However, the start of construction was delayed. [4]
Eric Anthony Abrahams, also known as "Tony", [1] was born on 5 May 1940, [2] to Eric Abrahams and Lucille Abrahams. [3] His father was a director of a corporation. [4] He was educated at Jamaica College and studied economics, history and English at the University of the West Indies beginning in 1958.
He became a member of the Parliament of the West Indies Federation in 1958, and then the independent Jamaican Parliament as a Senator and a Member of the House of Representatives after 1962. He was a minister in the government of Michael Manley during the 1970s and President of the Senate of Jamaica from 1989 to 1991. [ 5 ]
Nigel Clarke was born in St. Andrew, Jamaica on 20 October 1971, in an upper middle class family. His father, Justice Neville Clarke, served as a Jamaican Supreme Court judge for several decades while his mother, Mary Clarke, served as head of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) for almost 20 years.