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She was sworn in at a ceremony held at the Jamaica Conference Centre on 15 September 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic. Williams was first elected as Member of Parliament in the 2016 general election when she polled 7,143 votes to become the first female Member of Parliament for St Andrew Eastern . [ 8 ]
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 .
Members of the 14th Parliament of Jamaica (65 P) S. Speakers of the House of Representatives of Jamaica (16 P)
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.
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.
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 ...
In February 2011, it came to light that Warmington had been a U.S. citizen at the time of his 2007 nomination, meaning that he was constitutionally ineligible to sit in Parliament; this was part of a widespread scandal in Jamaica involving MPs on both sides of the aisle, including Daryl Vaz, Michael Stern, Shahine Robinson, and Gregory Mair of ...
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.