Anna Brown

Jamaica 2020 overview

Jamaica 2020 Jamaica, “the land of wood and water”, known as the third largest English-speaking island in the Caribbean with its mountainous land and majestic waterfalls. Its beautiful beaches and sweet jerk dishes, its production of the reggae king Bob Marley and the world’s fastest sprinters. With 2.9m people settled on the island, its multi-racial population is consisted of Africans, Europeans, East Indians and Chinese is based on the motto “Out of many one people”. The democratic country gained independence on August 6, 1962 from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and became a commonwealth country with Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state and is represented in Jamaica by the governor-general the most honourable sir Patrick Allen. In 2012 the then prime minister honourable Portia Simpson Miller intended to remove the Queen as head of state but her reign ended before she could do so. On September 3, 2020 Jamaica’s latest general election where the Jamaica labour party was victorious in winning to the people’s nation party with 49 seats was questioned again upon removing the queen as head of states, their answers yet to finalized.