Jamaica Labour Party supporters celebrate the party's win over the People's National Party in St. The opposition People's National Party (PNP) leader, Peter Phillips, appeared to have retained his seat, but earlier declared that he would step down and retire from politics if his party lost the election. "There are many Jamaicans who did not participate, there are many Jamaicans, who for fear of the virus, did not come to the polls, but for other reasons, apathy, frustrations, decided not to participate." "There is cause for celebration, but there is also significant cause for consideration," Holness said in a subdued televised speech late on Thursday. The centre-right Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which won praise for its stewardship of the economy, won 49 of 63 seats, an addition of 16 seats, according to an early count released around 9 p.m. On 25 February 2016, the Jamaica Labour Party, headed by Andrew Holness, won the national elections with the Jamaican Labour Party winning 32 seats compared to 31 seats for the incumbent People's National Party.Jamaica's ruling party was re-elected in a landslide win on Thursday marked by low turnout, prompting Prime Minister Andrew Holness to vow to work on restoring voters' trust in politics and continue fighting the country's coronavirus outbreak. The JLP, however, lost at the polls to the People's National Party, which gained a large majority of 42 to the JLP's 21 parliamentary seats. The JLP campaigned in their strongholds and Holness highlighted the four years of the JLP government with accomplishments, such as economic growth and crime reduction which the JLP says the PNP failed to do during their eighteen years rule of the country. On 5 December 2011, Holness called the next election for 29 December 2011. As Prime Minister, he chose to retain the education portfolio. He succeeded Bruce Golding as both leaders of the Jamaica Labour Party and Prime Minister on 23 October 2011, making him the ninth person to hold this office.
He was sworn in as Minister of Education in September 2007. In 2002 he switched portfolio to Housing and then Education in 2005. Andrew and served as Opposition Spokesperson on Land and Development from 1999 to 2002. In 1997 he became Member of Parliament for West Central St. He is a member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church Holness served as Executive Director in 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. Catherine High School during the 1980s The couple have two children, Adam and Andrew Jr. Catherine High School and a graduate of the University of the West Indies where he pursued a Master of Science in Development Studies and a Bachelor of Science in Management Studies In 1997, he married Juliet Holness (née Landell), an accountant, whom he had met as a student at St. He is the also first prime minister to be born post-Jamaican independence in 1962.Īndrew Holness is a graduate of the St.
Holness is the youngest person to become Prime Minister in Jamaica's history, as well as the country's ninth Prime Minister overall. He failed in that bid, however, losing badly to the Portia Simpson Miller-led PNP, with the PNP gaining 42 seats to the JLP's 21.įollowing 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. He had succeeded Bruce Golding as Prime Minister and decided to go to the polls in the 29 December 2011 general elections in a bid to get his own mandate from the Jamaican electorate.
Holness previously served as Prime Minister from October 2011 to January 5, 2012. Upon his appointment as prime minister, Holness was bestowed with the national honour of the Order of Nation, which entitles both him and his wife to be styled as "The Most Honourable". Andrew Michael Holness, ON, MP (born 22 July 1972) has been the Prime Minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016, following the 25 February 2016 general elections.
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