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The Parliament meets at Gordon House at 81 Duke Street, Kingston. [1] It was built in 1960 and named in memory of Jamaican patriot George William Gordon. [2] Construction on a new parliament building directly north of Gordon House was expected to start in early 2021. [3] However, the start of construction was delayed. [4]
Legislative power is vested both in the government and in the Parliament of Jamaica. The Prime Minister is appointed by the governor-general, the common convention being the leader of the largest party in Parliament. [4] A bipartisan joint committee of the Jamaican legislature drafted Jamaica's current Constitution in 1962.
In 1959, 13 new constituencies were created in Jamaica increasing the size of parliament from 32 seats to 45. [1] Constituencies and MPs as of 2019
The Parliament of Jamaica has two chambers: . The House of Representatives has 63 members, elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies.; The Senate has 21 appointed members: 13 chosen by the Prime Minister and 8 by the Leader of the Opposition.
The party held a majority of seats in the parliament of the Colony of Jamaica from 1955 until 1962. Following independence in 1962, it held the majority of seats in the Jamaican Parliament from 1972 to 1980, from 1989 to 2007, and from 2011 to 2016.
Holness joined the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) in 1992, and became actively involved from 1993, while a student at the University of the West Indies. Holness was first elected to the Jamaican parliament in the 1997 general election as the member of parliament for Saint Andrew West Central, representing the JLP.
Jamaica is an upper-middle-income country [15] with an economy heavily dependent on tourism; it has an average of 4.3 million tourists a year. [20] Jamaica is a parliamentary constitutional monarchy, with power vested in the bicameral Parliament of Jamaica, consisting of an appointed Senate and a directly elected House of Representatives. [9]
Gordon House (or George William Gordon House) is the meeting place of the Jamaica Parliament, located at 81 Duke Street in Kingston, close to the old parliament building headquarters. The house serves as the meeting place of both the Senate and the House of Representatives since independence on August 6, 1962 [1]