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Marsha Leonette Smith is a Jamaican attorney-at-law and Labour Party politician, and former Member of Parliament for Saint Ann North Eastern (2020-24). She currently serves as the State Minister in the Ministry of Education.
As Jamaica is a parliamentary democracy modelled after the Westminster system, most of the government's ability to make and pass laws is dependent on the Prime Minister's ability to command the confidence of the members of the House of Representatives. Though both Houses of Parliament hold political significance, the House of Representatives ...
In February 2011, it came to light that Warmington had been a U.S. citizen at the time of his 2007 nomination, meaning that he was constitutionally ineligible to sit in Parliament; this was part of a widespread scandal in Jamaica involving MPs on both sides of the aisle, including Daryl Vaz, Michael Stern, Shahine Robinson, and Gregory Mair of ...
Charles began his legal career as a judicial clerk in The Supreme Court and The Court of Appeal in Jamaica. He went on to be a senior clerk of court in the parish of Saint Catherine, before moving to the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions to serve as Crown Counsel. He is now the lead counsel and managing attorney at the Law Offices ...
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.
Phillip Henriques is a Jamaican politician, who has represented Clarendon North Western in the Parliament of Jamaica since 2020. [1] Political career
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] A bipartisan joint committee of the Jamaican legislature drafted Jamaica's current Constitution in 1962.
Jamaica Labour Party Robert Nesta Morgan (born 13 November 1981) is a Jamaican politician. Robert Nesta Morgan is the Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Economic, Growth and Job Creation with the responsibility for Works.