Sunday, May 8, 2011

The Politics: Jamaica

Just a little outline of the government to further understand the politics of Jamaica:
Jamaica, a partially independent nation since 1962, has two main political parties; the People's National Party (PNP) and the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).  The country modeled its government after the UK; it had a parliament system, which includes a prime minister, or representative to Queen Elizabeth, Jamaica's Chief of State.
The PNP was founded in the late 1930s and is a democratic, liberal party, and the JLP is a conservative, right-winged party that was founded in the Early 1940s.  Currently, the JLP is in power and has been since they won elections in 2007 with its leader, Bruce Golding.

So, as we can see, the Jamaican government is formed much like the UK and even the US government, especially because of the presence of only two, non-religiously- affiliated government parties.  One, like the US is conservative, and the other is liberal and the balance of powers happens within both the Executive and Legislative Branches.  Unlike the US, Jamaica's Judiciary system is unrelated.
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  1. Raul Reis May 23, 2011 at 10:15 AM

    This was a good blog, overall. I just wish you had been more consistent with the frequency, and also posted more items related to the questions asked in class. I was also expecting more discussion of the topics covered in class. The assignment called for a final entry that summarized what you learned about Jamaica throughout the semester. And it also called for 15 entries, instead of 10...

    Grade: 140 (out of 200).

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