First black prime minister of jamaica

Born into a working-class home in rural Jamaica, Portia Simpson-Miller, sometimes called Sista P by her supporters, has risen through the political ranks to become her country’s eighth prime minister since it gained independence from Great Britain, in 1962—and the first woman to hold the office. Simpson-Miller won the post by an overwhelming margin in a February 2006 election among delegates for the party she has belonged to her entire political career, the once staunchly socialist and now left-of-center People’s National Party (PNP). As a minister of parliament for close to 24 of the last 30 years, she has demonstrated an intense dedication to her local constituents in South West St. Andrew, an impoverished and violence-torn district of the country’s capital, Kingston, where Simpson-Miller regularly wins more than 90 percent of the vote. “Anything I can do to make life better for the majority of

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