| The Most Honourable
Andrew Holness
ON MP
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| 9th Prime Minister of Jamaica | |
Incumbent
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| Assumed office 3 March 2016 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor-General | Patrick Allen |
| Preceded by | Portia Simpson-Miller |
| In-office 23 October 2011 – 5 January 2012 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor-General | Patrick Allen |
| Preceded by | Bruce Golding |
| Succeeded by | Portia Simpson-Miller |
| Leader of the Jamaica Labour Party | |
Incumbent
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| Assumed office 20 November 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Bruce Golding |
| Minister of Education | |
| In-office 11 September 2007 – 1 January 2012 | |
| Prime Minister | Bruce Golding Himself |
| Preceded by | Maxine Henry-Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Ronald Thwaites |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Andrew Michael Holness
22 July 1972 Spanish Town, Jamaica |
| Political party | Jamaica Labour Party |
| Spouse(s) |
Juliet Landell
(m. 1997) |
| Children | 2 |
| Alma mater | University of the West Indies |
Andrew Michael Holness
Andrew Michael Holness (n. Spanish Town, 21 of July of 1972 ) is a political Jamaican, who serves as prime minister of his country from the 3 of March of 2016 after the General Election 2016 Jamaica, and previously since October from 2011 to January 5, 2012. He was the youngest person to hold such a position in Jamaica's history, being the ninth prime minister since independence. He was previously Minister of Education between 2007 and 2011.
He succeeded Bruce Golding as Jamaica Labor Party leader as well as Prime Minister on October 23, 2011, making him the ninth person to hold the highest Jamaican post. As Prime Minister, he decided to keep the education portfolio under his charge.
On the 5 of December of 2011, Holness called general elections to choose his successor in 2012. They were held on December 28, 2011. Finally, the Labor Party lost the elections, and Holness left office on January 1, 2012.
Andrew Holness: Early life
Holness attended St. Catherine High School until 1988 and then studied at the University of the West Indies, where he a Bachelor Accounts in Management Studies and Master in Development Studies ( Development Research acquired). From 1994 to 1996 he was the Executive Director of the Voluntary Organization for Uplifting Children. In 1996 he joined the Premium Group of Companies, where he became Edward Seaga's Special Assistant .
Holness is married and has two children.
In 1994-96 he headed the Voluntary Organization for Uplifting Children, in 1997 he was elected to the parliament. In 1999, he began to oversee land and development issues in the parliamentary faction of the Labor Party, in 2002 - issues of housing policy, in 2005 - education. After Labor won the 2007 elections, he took over as Minister of Education. Following the resignation of Prime Minister Bruce Golding in October 2011, he was named as his successor. Holness basically left the government as it was while retaining the post of Minister of Education.
Andrew Holness is a graduate of St. Catherine High School and of the University of the West Indies, where he pursued a Bachelor of Science in Management Studies and a Master of Science in Development Studies. In 1997 he married Juliet Holness (née Landell), an accountant, whom he had met as a student at St. Catherine High School during the 1980s. The couple has two children, Adam and Matthew.
Holness served as Executive Director at the Voluntary Organization for Uplifting Children from 1994 to 1996 and then joined the Premium Group of Companies, acting as a special assistant to Edward Seaga.
He is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
Andrew Holness: Biography
Born of a farmer father, of socialist conviction, and a mother civil servant in the administration, he studied at the University of the West Indies, where he obtained a license in management than a master's degree in sociology of development.
Before entering politics, he was from 1994 to 1996, Executive Director of the Voluntary Organization for the edification of children ( Voluntary Organization for Uplifting Children ), an NGO of social assistance. In 1995, the leader of the official opposition and the Labor Party, Edward Seaga, invited him to work for him as a personal assistant, with responsibility for formulating proposals in the policy of combating poverty and social investment.
He was elected a Member of Parliament for West Central St. Andrew's constituency in 1997. He was the opposition critic on land and development issues from 1999 to 2002, then on housing issues, and finally on housing issues. education from 2005. Labor won legislative elections in September 2007 and new Prime Minister Bruce Golding appointed Holness Minister of Education. In this capacity, it makes literacy in primary school its priority and sets up a transition program towards an alternative secondary education for pupils in difficulty, as well as a program for centers of excellence.
After the resignation of Bruce Golding, he takes the head of the Labor Party and succeeds him as Prime Minister on while remaining Minister of Education. At the age of 39, he became the youngest head of government in the country's history and the first to be born after independence.
The Prime Minister's website claims Holness "can be described as center-left on some social issues, but fiscal and economic conservative ".
His party lost the legislative elections of December 29, 2011. January, he left power by giving way to the new Prime Minister, Portia Simpson-Miller.
After four years in opposition, Labor wins parliamentary elections on . Andrew Holness is sworn in as Prime Minister on. He wins the elections of September 3, 2020, and is re-elected as Prime Minister on September 7.
Andrew Holness: Politics
In the 1997 general election, Holness was elected to the House of Representatives as a candidate for the Jamaica Labor Party for the constituency of West Central St. Andrew and has been a member of the Jamaican Parliament without interruption since then. From 1999 to 2002 he was the opposition spokesman for land and development, in the meantime, he became the housing policy spokesman for the JLP, and from 2005 he was the opposition spokesman for education policy.
After the JLP won a government majority in the parliamentary elections in September 2007, Holness was sworn in as Minister of Education on September 14th.
After Bruce Golding announced at the end of September 2011 that he was stepping down from his positions as party chairman of the JLP and Prime Minister of Jamaica, a group of JLP parliamentarians, including the other potential successors, agreed to support Holness in his successor in early October. Holness was sworn in on October 23 as the ninth Prime Minister of Jamaica and, as expected, also elected Golding's successor as party chairman at the party congress on November 20, 2011. On December 4, Holness announced as of the opposition People's National Party already called (PNP) on the occasion of the change in leadership, new elections for December 29, 2011. The PNP won the election with 42 seats to 21 for the JLP, Portia Simpson Miller became the new Prime Minister, and Holness became the opposition leader in the House of Representatives. In the parliamentary elections on February 25, 2016, the JLP was again the strongest party and Holness was again prime minister.
