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Ministries of Jamaica. Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport [1] Jamaica Cultural Development Commission. Women's Centre of Jamaica Foundation. Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission. The Institute of Jamaica. Jamaica National Heritage Trust. National Library of Jamaica. Sports Development Foundation.
4 to 13 August – Jamaica participated at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics, with 54 competitors in 24 events; Deaths Peter Abrahams in 1955. 18 January – Peter Abrahams, novelist, journalist and political commentator (b. 1919). 25 January – Ronnie Davis, reggae singer (b. 1950).
The prime minister of Jamaica (Jamaican Patois: Praim Minista a Jumieka) is Jamaica's head of government, currently Andrew Holness.Holness, as leader of the governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), was sworn in as prime minister on 7 September 2020, having been re-elected as a result of the JLP's landslide victory in the 2020 Jamaican general election.
The Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) is a government agency established in 1996 as part of Jamaica’s national poverty alleviation strategy. It operates as a limited liability company under the Company’s Act of Jamaica [1]. The primary mission of JSIF is to mobilize resources and channel them into small-scale, community-based projects ...
Minister of Finance and the Public Service. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Jamaica) Ministry of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (Jamaica) Ministry of Labour and Social Security (Jamaica) Ministry of National Security (Jamaica)
Politics in Jamaica takes place in the framework of a representative parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The 1962 Constitution of Jamaica established a parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those of the United Kingdom. As the head of state, King Charles III - on the advice of the Prime Minister ...
v. t. e. The Parliament of Jamaica (Jamaican Patois: Paaliment a Jumieka) is the legislative branch of the government of Jamaica. It consists of three elements: The Crown (represented by the Governor-General), the appointed Senate and the directly elected House of Representatives. The Senate, the Upper House, is the direct successor of a pre ...
In March, Jamaica formally pledged 200 personnel for the U.N.-backed mission, but the long-delayed security force has been slow to deploy and its initial mandate will expire in under a month if it ...