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Jamaica constitutes an independent Commonwealth realm. [3] 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 ...
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 .
In 1840, the British government offered Hill the post of lieutenant-governor of St Lucia, but he turned it down in order to devote his time to his Jamaican government duties, and his work in natural history. [19] [20] From 1855-65, Hill served as a member of the Privy Council. In 1851, when Jamaica suffered from a cholera epidemic, Hill used ...
Jamaica's first political parties emerged in the late 1920s, while workers association and trade unions emerged in the 1930s. The development of a new Constitution in 1944, universal male suffrage, and limited self-government eventually led to Jamaican Independence in 1962 with Alexander Bustamante serving as its first prime minister. The ...
From 1945, it published the Jamaican Historical Review, [3] and from 1952 it published a Bulletin. [4] Initially, the society's publications were funded by the British Council. [5] In the years before the University College of the West Indies in 1948, the society was dominated by the local and expatriate middle class of Jamaica.
This is a list of viceroys in Jamaica from its initial occupation by Spain in 1509, to its independence from the United Kingdom in 1962. For a list of viceroys after independence, see Governor-General of Jamaica. For context, see History of Jamaica.
George William Gordon, critic of the colonial government; Norman Manley, first and only Premier of Jamaica; Nanny of the Maroons, leader of the Windward Maroons, composed of escaped slaves and their descendants; Samuel Sharpe, leader of the Baptist War slave rebellion; Paul Bogle, deacon and activist, leader of the 1865 Morant Bay protesters
Nanny is celebrated in Jamaica and abroad: The government of Jamaica declared Queen Nanny a National Hero in 1975. Colonel C.L.G. Harris of Moore Town, then a Senator in Jamaica's upper house, was the driving force behind the move to recognise Nanny as a National Heroine. [30]