"When Andrew Holness becomes prime minister today".
^ "Holness to be sworn in as prime minister on Monday afternoon".Archived from the original on 7 January 2012. ^ Holness Sworn In As PM, Takes 'The Most Honourable' Title Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.As prime minister, he chose to retain the education portfolio. He succeeded Bruce Golding as both leader of the JLP 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 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. The couple have two children, Adam and Matthew. In 1997 he married Juliet Holness ( née Landell), an accountant, whom he had met as a student at 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. 2.3 2016 elections and re-appointment as Prime MinisterĪndrew Holness is a graduate of St.He is also the first prime minister to have been born after Jamaica gained independence in 1962. Holness is the youngest person to have been elected and reelected prime minister in Jamaica's history. 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.
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. 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 Jamaica Labour Party's 21. 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. Holness previously served as prime minister from October 2011 to 5 January 2012.
Andrew Michael Holness, ON PC (born 22 July 1972) is a Jamaican politician who has been the Prime Minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016, following the 2016 Jamaican general election.