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.
Owen Seymour Arthur was a Barbadian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Barbados from 6 September 1994 to 15 January 2008. He is the longest-serving Barbadian prime minister to date. He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 1 August 1993 to 6 September 1994 and from 23 October 2010 to 21 February 2013.
Edward Philip George Seaga was a Jamaican politician and record producer. 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.
Mervyn Eustace Morris OM is a poet,writer,editor and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies,Mona,Jamaica. His poetry is well respected throughout the Caribbean,which has consistently ranked him among the top West Indian poets. He was also one of the first academics to espouse the importance of nation language in helping to define in verse important aspects of Jamaican culture." Morris was Poet Laureate of Jamaica from 2014 to 2017.
Kenneth Lee O'Neil Baugh,was a Jamaican politician and surgeon. A member of the Jamaica Labour Party,he served as Deputy Prime Minister,Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade,and Minister of Health.
Sir Patrick Linton Allen is a Jamaican statesman and former Seventh-day Adventist pastor,who has served as the sixth and current governor-general of Jamaica since 26 February 2009.
Anthony Johnson was a Jamaican politician,diplomat,economist and university lecturer. He was a Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) senator and JLP Member of Parliament,ambassador to the United States,and High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.
Andrew Michael Holness,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.
The Minister of Finance and the Public Service is Jamaica's chief financial official in charge of formulating both monetary and financial policies. He works alongside the Bank of Jamaica and its Governor.
Donald George Wehby is a Jamaican business executive and former politician. Wehby is group chief executive officer at GraceKennedy Limited,and a Government senator and former cabinet minister. In September 2007,he became a senator and Minister Without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and The Public Service. On 5 October 2009,he returned to GraceKennedy Limited and became the company's group chief operating officer.
Peter Phillips OJ MP is a Jamaican politician who has served as the MP for Saint Andrew East Central since 1993.
Professor Floyd Emerson Morris is a former Jamaican politician from the People's National Party. He was the 12th President of the Senate of Jamaica. Morris,who began losing his sight during high school and lost it fully six years later,became the first blind member of the Senate when he was appointed in 1998.
Noel Newton "Crab" Nethersole was a Jamaican Rhodes Scholar,cricketer and administrator,lawyer,politician,economist,and Jamaica's Minister of Finance from 1955 to 1959.
Sandra Marie Palmer is a Jamaican entrepreneur,university lecturer,and the CEO of the company Above or Beyond.
Fayval Shirley Williams is a Jamaican politician who is the Minister of Finance and the Public Service and the Member of Parliament for the St Andrew Eastern constituency. Williams has held multiple ministerial positions,including Minister of Education and Youth,Minister of Science,Energy and Technology,and Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service. She is the first female to be a minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service,and also the first female minister of science,energy and technology. In June 2014,Fayval Williams was named as a member of the Jamaica Labour Party's Economic Advisory Council.
Adlyn White was a Jamaican educator and Christian minister who was the first woman to be ordained by the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. She was also the first woman to head the church,serving as its moderator of synod from 1991 to 1993.
Hector Lincoln Wynter,OJ,was a Jamaican educator,editor,diplomat and politician of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
Damion O. Crawford is a Jamaican politician. He represented Saint Andrew East in the parliament.
Maxine Antoinette Henry-Wilson,CD is a Jamaican educator and politician,representing the People's National Party (PNP). She served as minister of education from 2002 to 2007.
Eric Anthony Abrahams was a Jamaican public servant and broadcaster. He was director of tourism from 1970 to 1975,and minister of tourism and information from 1980 to 1984. After leaving office,he co-created a radio show with Beverley Manley,"The Breakfast Club". He was involved in a libel suit against the Gleaner Company,which initially resulted in a major settlement to him. Abrahams was educated at Jamaica College and later at the University of the West Indies and University of Oxford. At Oxford,he was elected president of the Oxford Union,a debating society. In 1964,he hosted a debate attended by Malcolm X. In Britain,he briefly worked for the BBC as its first black TV reporter.
