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.
Percival Noel James Patterson,,popularly known as P.J. Patterson,is a Jamaican former politician who served as the sixth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. He served in office for 14 years,making him the longest-serving prime minister in Jamaica's history. He was the leader of the People's National Party from 1992 to 2006.
Sir William Alexander Clarke Bustamante was a Jamaican politician and labour leader,who,in 1962,became the first prime minister of Jamaica.
The Jamaica Labour Party 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.
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 Jamaican former 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.
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. He is leader of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). 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 JLP'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.
Edmund Bartlett is a Jamaican politician who is Member of Parliament for Saint James East Central. He is current Minister of Tourism,having succeeded Wykeham McNeill when the Jamaica Labour Party won the 2016 general elections. Bartlett,a native of the parish of Westmoreland,Jamaica,was educated at St Elizabeth Technical High School,where he was Head Boy,and the University of the West Indies,Mona,where he studied sociology. He was first elected to the House of Representatives in 2002 and he has served as a minister in Jamaica Labour Party administration since before then. He became the youngest serving member of parliament in 1980.
General elections were held in Jamaica on 29 December 2011. The elections were contested mainly between the nation's two major political parties,the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP),led by Andrew Holness,and the Portia Simpson-Miller-led opposition People's National Party (PNP). The result was a landslide victory for the PNP which won 42 of the 63 seats,a two-thirds majority.
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".
Ian Dave Hayles is a Jamaican politician with the People's National Party. He was a Member of the Parliament of Jamaica since 2007 before losing his seat to Jamaica Labour Party Candidate and Attorney-at-Law,Tamika Davis,at the 2020 Jamaican general election.
Peter Phillips OJ MP is a Jamaican politician who is currently the MP for Saint Andrew East Central.
Angela Rosemarie Brown-Burke is a Jamaican politician with the People's National Party.
Fenton Rudyard Ferguson CD is a Jamaican politician with the People's National Party. He began serving as Jamaica's Minister of labor and social security under Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller in 2012. He is a dental surgeon. Fenton Ferguson was the MP for Saint Thomas Eastern. His opponent in 2016 was Mr. Delano Seiveright. Ferguson was moved to labor and social security after he remarked that babies who died as a result of the Klebsiella outbreak in 2015 at Victoria Jubilee Hospital are “not babies in the real sense”during his tenure as Minister of Health when many premature babies died from that bacteria.
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.
Republicanism in Jamaica is a position which advocates that Jamaica's system of government be changed from a constitutional monarchy to a republic. Both major political parties –the Jamaica Labour Party and the People's National Party –subscribe to the position,and the current Prime Minister of Jamaica,Andrew Holness,has announced that transitioning to a republic will be a priority of his government. In June 2022,the Jamaican government announced its intention that Jamaica become a republic by the time of the next general election in 2025. The process will include a two-thirds majority vote in parliament along with a referendum.
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.
The 2020 People's National Party (PNP) leadership election was triggered after Peter Phillips announced his intention to resign as Leader of the People's National Party following the party's defeat at the 2020 general election. It was held on November 7,2020. If Hanna was elected,she would have served as the second female President of a Jamaican political party and the second female Leader of the Opposition in Jamaican history. The election was won by Former Minister of Justice and Member of Parliament for St Andrew Southern and Attorney Mark Golding who secured 1,740 or 54.6% of the vote.
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