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,PC 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.
Ralph Everard Gonsalves is a Vincentian politician. He is currently the Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines,and leader of the Unity Labour Party (ULP).
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.
Mervyn Eustace Morris OM is a poet and professor emeritus at the University of the West Indies,Mona,Jamaica. According to educator Ralph Thompson,"In addition to his poetry,which has ranked him among the top West Indian poets,he was one of the first academics to espouse the importance of nation language in helping to define in verse important aspects of Jamaican culture."
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 6th 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.
Kern Omar Spencer,MP is a Jamaican politician. A member of the People's National Party,Mr. Spencer served as Member of Parliament (MP) for St. Elizabeth North Eastern from 2007 to 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 former senator and 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 PhillipsMP is a Jamaican politician who is currently the MP for Saint Andrew East Central.
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,cricket player and administrator,lawyer,politician,economist,and Jamaica's Minister of Finance from 1955 to 1959.
Dr Sandra Marie Palmer is a Jamaican entrepreneur who founded an information technology company,SSP APTEC in 1997,opening a branch in Fort Lauderdale,Florida in 2002. In 2014,she founded Soulmates,a boutique match-making social club,and Peak Performance International,a consulting firm.
Fayval Shirley Williams is a Jamaican politician who is the Minister of Education,Youth and Information and the Member of Parliament for the St Andrew Eastern constituency. Williams had previously been the minister in the Ministry of Science,Energy and Technology as well as the 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.
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.
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.
