Sir Clifford Campbell was Jamaica's first native Governor-General. 2009-Incumbent: His Excellency The Most Hon.
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The Commonwealth of Nations formerly described as the British Commonwealth or British Empire, is the name given collectively to all those territories which give allegiance to the British Crown or acknowledge the British Monarch as the symbol of their free association and as such the head of the Commonwealth.Ī parliamentary government is majority rule, equal rights for members to participate in the proceedings, protection of the right of the minority to be heard, and the orderly consideration of matters brought before the legislature.Ī democracy is a political system institutionalized under the rule of law. JAMAICA GAINED ITS INDEPENDENCE FROM BRITAIN IN 1962. There are also a number of independent candidates who have contested the general elections. There are, at present, three major political parties in Jamaica: the PEOPLE'S NATIONAL PARTY (PNP), the JAMAICA LABOUR PARTY (JLP), and the NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT (NDM). The PRIME MINISTER of Jamaica is the leader of the elected majority party in the House of Representatives. The official or constitutional Head of State is the GOVERNOR GENERAL, who is appointed by the monarch of Britain based on recommendation from the Prime Minister. Renward Wells, who won the hotly-contested Bamboo Town seat on Monday, has been appointed the Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Works and Urban Development.ĭr Kendal Major, MP-Elect for Garden Hills, has been named the next Speaker of the House of Assembly, with MP-Elect Deon Smith as the Deputy Speaker.Jamaica is a member-state of the COMMONWEALTH OF NATIONS and is governed by PARLIAMENTARY DEMOCRACY. The Prime Minister also said he would be making mid-term ministerial appointments with a view to bringing some government backbenchers not included in the first round of selections.Ĭhristie announced that Anthony Moss, Member-Elect for Exuma, has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Agriculture and Resources and that Cleola Hamilton, MP-Elect for South Beach, has been appointed Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration. The cabinet is approximately the same size as the FNM’s 2007 cabinet named after that year’s election, according to Christie.
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Above: Prime Minister Perry Christie at his swearing-in this week (BIS Photo)īahamas Prime Minister Perry Christie has completed the formation of his entire cabinet, naming an additional 11 Ministers after the eight who were already sworn in Thursday.Ĭhristie now has a full cabinet, the remainder of which will be sworn in at Government House in a ceremony Friday afternoon.Īccording to Christie, while he would have gone with a smaller cabinet, the “extraordinary” challenges facing the country demanded a larger cabinet able to “simultaneously tackle these challenges on a broadest possible front.”