As Sports Minister 1989 to 2007, she used her tremendous influence to motivate the Jamaican sporting community and promoted sports as a social unifying force. Simpson Miller’s love of sports and Jamaica’s athletes is well-known. Simpson Miller transformed the National Insurance Scheme into a major component of the Government’s social welfare system. She was Minister of Labour, Welfare and Sport Minister of Tourism and Sport and Minister of Local Government, Community Development and Sport.ĭuring her tenure as a Minister of Government and before becoming Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller presided over the most significant expansion of the Jamaican Overseas Work Programme and the unprecedented increase in the National Insurance Fund. Simpson Miller’s appointment as Head of Government came after seventeen years as a senior Cabinet Minister. The Most Honourable Portia Simpson Miller was Jamaica’s seventh Prime Minister and the first Jamaican woman to serve in that capacity. She completed the Executive Programme for Leaders in Development at the prestigious John Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. She pursued her education up to the secondary level in Jamaica, before reading for her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Public Administration at the Union Institute and University in the United States of America, which later awarded her an Honorary Doctorate. Portia Simpson Miller was born on 12 December 194 in Jamaica. Following her second election win in December 2011, when her party defeated the Jamaica Labour Party, she became the second individual to have served non-consecutive terms, the first having been Michael Manley. She had served as Minister of Labour, Social Security and Sport, Minister of Tourism and Sports and Minister of Local Government throughout the years. While serving as Prime Minister, Simpson-Miller retained the positions of Minister of Defence, Development, Information and Sports. She was Leader of the Opposition between her two terms. She is the seventh Prime Minister of Jamaica, currently serving since 5 January 2012, and previously from March 2006 to September 2007.
Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller is a Jamaican politician and leader of the People's National Party. The information that led the security forces to the premises was based on intelligence they received from someone who was at the gathering who disobeyed the church leader’s orders and was injured, having to be sent to the hospital.Īmong those the Police arrested is also said to be a JCF member, The incident has also led the JCF to have suspicions that there might be other members of the security force involved in the cult-like movement.Caribbean Elections Biography | Portia Simpson Miller Upon searching the premises, it was discovered that a woman by the name of Tanicka Gordon was lying on the ground with her throat slashed while another man had gunshot and stab wounds. The situation is a very tricky one at this point for Smith, and his church members as the Police had to go through a gun battle with them before they could access the location safely for a search. In a Facebook post by him in 2016, he posted a picture of him and his mother in halfway tree while he was seen wearing the Jamaica College uniform. These persons included Warren Weir, Sean Paul, and former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller. In the photos circulating with the Church leader online, he can be seen posing with some very notable figures from the political, sports, and entertainment arena. There have been alleged reports that the nationality of Smith might not have been Jamaican however, upon the circulation of several photos of him and a Facebook post that perspective is now questionable. Since the incident that found the Police invading a 3-day convention the cult like the group was keeping due to suspicions of ritualised killings, the group has become one of the main topics among Jamaicans and have even caught international attention.