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The judiciary also is modelled on the British system. The Court of Appeal is the highest appellate court in Jamaica. Under certain circumstances, cases may be appealed to Britain's Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. Jamaica's parishes have elected councils that exercise limited powers of local government.
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 .
Name Entered office Left office The Governor for the time being : 1866 1893 J.C. Philippo: 1893 1893 et. seq. the Governor for the time being : 1893 1945 Sir Noel Livingston ...
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 ...
Jamaica has two traditional parties from the old colonial era: the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP). The United Independents' Congress of Jamaica (UIC) became the first new (post colonial) registered political party on December 7, 2019.
The People's National Party (PNP) is a social democratic [7] [8] [9] political party in Jamaica, founded in 1938 by Norman Washington Manley who served as party president until his death in 1969. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] It holds 14 of the 63 seats in the House of Representatives , [ 13 ] as 96 of the 227 local government divisions.
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.
After 146 years of Spanish rule, a large group of British sailors and soldiers landed in the Kingston Harbour on 10 May 1655, during the Anglo-Spanish War. [4] The English, who had set their sights on Jamaica after a disastrous defeat in an earlier attempt to take the island of Hispaniola, marched toward Villa de la Vega, the administrative center of the island.