The People's National Party (PNP) is a social-democratic political party in Jamaica,founded in 1938 by Norman Washington Manley who served as party president until his death in 1969. It holds 14 of the 63 seats in the House of Representatives,as 96 of the 227 local government divisions. The party is democratic socialist by constitution.
The Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is one of the two major political parties in Jamaica,the other being the People's National Party (PNP). While its name might suggest that it is a social democratic party,the JLP is actually a conservative party.
Edward Philip George Seaga was a Jamaican politician. He was the fifth Prime Minister of Jamaica,from 1980 to 1989,and the leader of the Jamaica Labour Party from 1974 to 2005. He served as leader of the opposition from 1974 to 1980,and again from 1989 until January 2005.
The National Democratic Movement (NDM) is a conservative political party in Jamaica,led by Peter Townsend.
Orette Bruce Golding is a former Jamaican politician who served as eighth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 11 September 2007 to 23 October 2011. He is a member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP),which he led from 2005 to his resignation in 2011.
Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller is a former Jamaican politician. She served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. She was the leader of the People's National Party from 2005 to 2017 and the Leader of the Opposition twice,from 2007 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2017.
Oswald Gaskell Harding is a Jamaican former Labour Party politician,and the longest-serving senator in the nation's history. He was born in Kingston. Harding was the first person to serve as President of the Senate of Jamaica for two non-consecutive tenures,serving from 1980 to 1984 and from 2007 to 2011. First appointed to the Senate in 1977,he served in the body continuously until 2002,and rejoined the Senate from 2007 until his retirement from politics in 2011. His first period as a senator was the longest continuous tenure in the body's history.
Andrew Michael Holness,is a Jamaican politician who has been the Prime Minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016,following the 2016 Jamaican general election. Holness previously served as prime minister from October 2011 to 5 January 2012. He succeeded Bruce Golding as prime minister,and decided to go to the polls in the 29 December 2011 general election in an attempt to get his own mandate from the Jamaican electorate. He failed in that bid,however,losing to the People's National Party led by Portia Simpson-Miller,with the PNP gaining 42 seats to the Jamaica Labour Party's 21. Following that defeat,Holness served as Leader of the Opposition from January 2012 to March 2016,when he once again assumed the position of prime minister. In 2020,the Labour Party won a landslide in another general election,and on 7 September Holness was sworn in for another term as prime minister.
Pearnel Charles is a Jamaican politician with the Jamaica Labour Party who was the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Desmond Gregory Mair is a Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) member of the Parliament of Jamaica representing the Saint Catherine North East constituency.
Sharon Hay-Webster is a Jamaican politician. She was a member of the House of Representatives of the Parliament of Jamaica from 1997 to 2012,representing the People's National Party. She came to international attention after the 2004 Haitian coup d'état,when she escorted Jean-Bertrand Aristide from his temporary exile in the Central African Republic to Jamaica at the invitation of then-Prime Minister of Jamaica P. J. Patterson.
General elections were held in Jamaica on 25 February 2016. The elections were largely a contest between the governing People's National Party (PNP) and the opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). The result was a narrow victory for the JLP,which won 32 of the 63 seats. One political commentator described the poll as "the closest election Jamaica has ever had".
Peter Murcott Bunting,MP was the fifth National Security Minister of Jamaica and the Former Member of Parliament representing the constituency of Central Manchester. Bunting was the General Secretary of the People's National Party,a position which he has held from January 2008 to January 2014. In the 2020 People's National Party leadership election,Bunting was the lead contender in the polls before the PNP's stunning defeat in the 2020 Jamaican general election,in which he lost his Manchester Central seat in Jamaica's parliament.
Clifford Everald Errol Warmington is a Jamaican politician with the Jamaica Labour Party. He has represented the Saint Catherine South Western constituency in the Parliament of Jamaica since 2002.
General elections were held in Jamaica on Thursday,3 September 2020 to elect 63 members of Parliament. As the constitution stipulates a five-year parliamentary term,the next elections were not expected until between 25 February and 10 June 2021. However,Prime Minister Andrew Holness called early elections to ensure a united response to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. On the advice of Holness,Governor General Patrick Allen dissolved Parliament on 13 August 2020.
The Jamaican political conflict is a long-standing feud between right-wing and left-wing elements in the country,often exploding into violence. The Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) have fought for control of the island for years and the rivalry has encouraged urban warfare in Kingston. Each side believes the other to be controlled by foreign elements,the JLP is said to be backed by the American Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the PNP is said to have been backed by the Soviet Union and Cuba.
Jamaica is the first English-speaking country in the Caribbean to achieve universal adult suffrage and grant women the right to be elected to Parliament. Between 1944 and 2020,a total of 47 women have been elected as Members of the House of Representatives. As of September 2020 there are 18 women in the House of Representatives,the highest ever. This is a new all-time high at 29% and is the first time that female representation in the House of Representatives stands at more than a quarter of the total membership.
Trelawny Northern is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Representatives of the Jamaican Parliament. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election. It was one of the 32 constituencies fixed in the new constitution granted to Jamaica in 1944. The constituency has featured in all 16 contested Parliamentary General Elections from 1944 to 2016. The current MP is Tova Hamilton,representing the Jamaica Labour Party,who has been in office since the 2020 general election.
Ivan Stewart Lloyd was a Jamaican medical practitioner and politician,representing the People's National Party (PNP). He served as Jamaica's first Leader of the Opposition from 1944 to 1949,minister of education and social welfare from 1955 to 1957,minister of home affairs from 1957 to 1959,and was minister of health between 1959 and 1962.
Horace Washington Dalley is a Jamaican educator and politician,representing the People's National Party (PNP). He was Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of Clarendon Northern,serving from 1989 to 2007,and again from 2011 to 2020. He served as Minister of Land and Environment from 2001 to 2002,Minister of Labour and Social Security from 2002 to 2006,Minister of Health from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2015 to 2016.
