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Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller ON (born 12 December 1945) is a Jamaican politician who served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from 2006 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2016. She was leader of the People's National Party from 2005 to 2017 and Leader of the Opposition from 2007 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2017.
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.
Portia Simpson-Miller is Jamaica's first woman prime minister (2006-2007) and (2011-2016). Women in Jamaica gained the right to vote in 1919, but that right was subject to property and income requirements. [3] By 1917 there was a branch of the Women's Citizens League was established. [4] The country was granted full adult suffrage on November ...
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 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.
Jamaica: Prime Minister: Andrew Holness: 3 March 2016 Montserrat: Prime Minister: Easton Taylor-Farrell: 19 November 2019 Saint Kitts and Nevis: Prime Minister: Terrance Drew: 6 August 2022 Saint Lucia: Prime Minister: Philip Pierre: 28 July 2021 Saint Vincent and the Grenadines: Prime Minister: Ralph Gonsalves: 29 March 2001 Suriname ...
Holness in late January offered to send Jamaican troops and police officers to help Haiti take on warring gangs.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness; ... to the House of Representatives of Jamaica from 1944 to present. [1] [2] # ... Portia Simpson-Miller: PNP: 1976: 2017 9: Violet ...