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The ministries of Jamaica are created at the discretion of the prime minister of Jamaica to carry out the functions of government. As of 2016, the prime minister is Andrew Holness . The agencies of Jamaica are created by both parliamentary law and assigned to ministers to oversee.
She has initiated the review of Jamaica's Foreign Trade Action Plan, and re-activated the Jamaica Trade Policy Advisory Group. On the international stage, Johnson Smith's international roles have included chairmanship of the CARIFORUM group, [7] in which capacity she led the opening of discussions with the UK on post-Brexit trade arrangements.
The Shadow Cabinet of Jamaica is seen as the alternative to the Cabinet of Jamaica, led by the Leader of the Opposition (Jamaica), and is charged with fairly criticizing and providing alternative policy to that proposed by the Government. [2] The Cabinet of Jamaica is currently composed of The Jamaica Labour Party members because the party won ...
Hon. Homer Davis - Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development; Hon. J.C. Hutchinson - Ministry of Transport and Mining; Hon. Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn - Ministry of Health and Wellness; Sen, the Hon. Leslie Campbell - Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade; Hon. Marsha Smith - Ministry of Finance and the Public Service
Hugh Lawson Shearer ON OJ PC (18 May 1923 – 15 July 2004) was a Jamaican trade unionist and politician, who served as the 3rd Prime Minister of Jamaica, from 1967 to 1972.He was also Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade from 1980 to 1989, under Edward Seaga.
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After achieving independence from the United Kingdom in August 1962, Jamaica immediately established its foreign ministry, then known as the Ministry of External Affairs. In 1976, the government changed the ministry's name to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and eventually added "and Foreign Trade" sometime later to reflect the full scope of its mission.
The prime minister of Jamaica (Jamaican Patois: Prime Minista a Jumieka) is Jamaica's head of government, currently Andrew Holness.Holness, as leader of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), was sworn in as prime minister on 7 September 2020, having been re-elected as a result of the JLP's landslide victory in the 2020 Jamaican general election.