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Saint Andrew is a parish, situated in the southeast of Jamaica in the county of Surrey. It lies north, west and east of Kingston, and stretches into the Blue Mountains. In the 2011 census, it had 573,369, the highest population of any of the parishes in Jamaica. George William Gordon, one of Jamaica's seven National Heroes, was born in this parish.
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Kingston is one of the 14 Parishes of Jamaica. Together with neighbouring St. Andrew Parish, it makes up the amalgamated Municipal Unit of Kingston and St. Andrew Corporation. The city of Kingston is the parish and national capital.
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Desmond A. McKenzie, JP is a Jamaican politician and former mayor of the Kingston and Saint Andrew Corporation (KSAC), who held office between July 2003 and January 2012, when he was elected as the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Kingston Western. He currently serves as the Jamaica Labour Party spokesman for urban renewal, rural development and local government.
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The HonourableKeble Aubrey Munn, O.J. was a Jamaican politician and agriculturalist.
Tivoli Gardens is a neighbourhood in Kingston, Jamaica. Developed as a renewal project between 1963 and 1965, the neighbourhood continued to suffer from poverty. By the late twentieth century it had become a center of drug trafficking activity and social unrest. Repeated confrontations took place between law enforcement and gunmen in the neighborhood in 1997, 2001, 2005, 2008, and 2010.
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The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Kingston, Jamaica.
Rose Agatha Leon was a Jamaican businesswoman and politician. In August 1999, she was murdered in her home.
Sir Geoffrey Campbell Gunter was the first Jamaican to have been governor of Jamaica in the modern era. Gunter was chief accountant of the Jamaica Government Railway, mayor of Kingston and founder and president of the Jamaica Philatelic Society.
Kingston Theatre, was a theatre in Kingston, Jamaica between 1775 and 1838. It was a major cultural center of the island during its duration and had a good reputation also outside of the island, giving Jamaica a name of cultural sophistication, and it remained the main theatre of Jamaica during its history.
Ralph Eugene Brown OJ, CD was a Jamaican politician who represented the People's National Party (PNP). He served twice as mayor of Kingston from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1986 to 1989. He was Minister of Works (1978–1980), and Minister of Local Government and Community Development (1989–1992).
References
- ↑ "Marie Atkins, Former Mayor of Kingston & St. Andrew". my-island-jamaica.com. Retrieved 26 February 2014.
- ↑ "Remembering Mayor Marie Atkins - Outlook - Sunday". Jamaica Gleaner. 11 January 2009. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011.
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