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Michael Norman Manley ON OM OCC PC (10 December 1924 – 6 March 1997) was a Jamaican politician who served as the fourth prime minister of Jamaica from 1972 to 1980 and from 1989 to 1992. Manley championed a democratic socialist program, [1] and has been described as a populist. He remains one of Jamaica's most popular prime ministers. [2]
Jamaica House has been the location of the Office of the Prime Minister since 1972. [4] Prime ministers resided there from 1964 until 1980. [4] On 8 November 2022, Prime Minister Andrew Holness said in question time that his official residence was Jamaica House rather than Vale Royal and that Vale Royal was currently in disrepair and possible ...
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 .
Prime Minister of Jamaica (Andrew Holness) Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica (Horace Chang) Leader of the Opposition (Mark Golding) Members of the Cabinet and Ministers of State President of the Senate (Tom Tavares-Finson, KC) Speaker of the House of Representatives (Juliet Holness) Chief Justice of Jamaica, Bryan Sykes; President of the Court ...
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.
On 5 January 2012, Portia Simpson-Miller was sworn in as prime minister for the second time in her political career. On the following day, she assigned 20 cabinet ministers to various ministries, and eight state ministers. In the 2016 Jamaican general election on 25 February, Simpson-Miller lost to Andrew Holness by a narrow margin. A recount ...
The Constitution vests executive power in the Cabinet, led by the Prime Minister. Executive power is exercised by the government. 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]
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] On 1 August 1991, [6] he became the fourth Governor-General of Jamaica, succeeding Florizel Glasspole. Queen Elizabeth visited Jamaica in 1994 and 2002 while