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The Speaker of the Parliament of the Cayman Islands is the presiding officer of the Parliament of the Cayman Islands, the legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. The current Speaker is Alden McLaughlin who succeeded Katherine Ebanks-Wilks in November 2023.
No. Name Party Took office Left office 1 Felix Gordon Veitch: Labour: January 1, 1945 1947 2 Clement Mullings Aitchison Labour 1947 1950 3 Clifford Campbell
The Parliament of the Cayman Islands is the unicameral legislature of the British Overseas Territory of the Cayman Islands. It is composed of 21 members; 19 elected members for a four-year term and two members ex officio. [1] The Governor may at any time, by Proclamation, prorogue or dissolve the Parliament.
The Cayman Islands (/ ˈ k eɪ m ən /) is a self-governing British Overseas Territory, and the largest by population.The 264-square-kilometre (102-square-mile) territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located south of Cuba and north-east of Honduras, between Jamaica and Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.
The unicameral Parliament of the Cayman Islands is presided over by an independent speaker. The Parliament has 19 elected members. Elections are held at the discretion of the Governor at least every 4 years. Members of the Parliament may introduce bills which, if passed, are then approved, returned, or disallowed by the Governor.
Even though the West Indies was spread across such a vast area, most of its provinces were mostly contiguous and clustered fairly close together in the Eastern Caribbean, with the obvious exceptions of Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and Turks and Caicos Islands. Most of the islands have mountainous interiors surrounded by narrow coastal plains.
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Legislative power is vested both in the government and in the Parliament of Jamaica. The Prime Minister is appointed by the governor-general, the common convention being the leader of the largest party in Parliament. [4] A bipartisan joint committee of the Jamaican legislature drafted Jamaica's current Constitution in 1962.