She served as vice president of the PNP from 1978 to 2006, when she became its president. She was Minister of Labour and Welfare from 1993 to 1995, Minister of Labour, Social Security and Sports from 1995 to February 2000, Minister of Tourism and Sports from February 2000 to October 2002, and Minister of Local Government and Sport since October 2002. She was re-elected to the same seat in a later election, and served as Minister of Labour, Welfare and Sports from 1989 to 1993. The PNP boycotted the elections called in 1983. Andrew Parish, as a member of the People's National Party. Simpson-Miller was elected in 1976 to the Parliament of Jamaica, to represent the constituency of South West St. The People's National Party under her leadership lost the 25 February 2016 general election to the Andrew Holness-led Jamaica Labour Party. Following her election win in December 2011, when her party defeated the Jamaica Labour Party, she became the second individual since independence to have served non-consecutive terms as prime minister, the first having been Michael Manley. She has also served as Minister of Labour, Social Security and Sport, Minister of Tourism and Sports and Minister of Local Government throughout her political career. While serving as Prime Minister, Simpson-Miller retained the positions of Minister of Defence, Development, Information and Sports. She was the leader of the People's National Party from 2005 to 2017 and the Leader of the Opposition twice, from 2007 to 2012 and from 2016 to 2017. She served as Prime Minister of Jamaica from March 2006 to September 2007 and again from 5 January 2012 to 3 March 2016. “The charts that the Canadians were using did not accurately reflect Jamaica’s southern maritime boundaries, which were completely adjusted by the Maritime Areas Act of 1996,” Jarrett said.Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller ON (born 12 December 1945) is a Jamaican politician. Basil Jarrett, media affairs officer for the Jamaican Defence Force, told the Star. The Jamaicans were aware the Canadian navy would be in the area from March 23 to 26 as part of a U.S.-led anti-narcotics operation in the Caribbean, but as they followed up on Golding’s inquiry, “it was discovered that one of the vessels was conducting live-fire exercises. Antony Anderson - Jamaica’s top soldier - to look into why the Canadians were there. The following day, Golding said, he phoned Chief of Defence Staff Maj.-Gen. He said they didn’t search his vessel and were polite throughout the exchange. Golding said 10 Canadians approached his fishing trawler in international waters. “It came directly alongside me, at which time I discovered that they appeared to be foreigners, they were all white people. “I saw a small boat approaching my vessel,” Golding said in the radio interview last week. The incident last spring led to the discovery that Canadian ships had been conducting live-fire exercises in Jamaican waters in contravention of international maritime law, possibly because they were using outdated maps, says the Jamaican Defence Force.īruce Golding, prime minister from 2007 to 2011, confirmed in an interview with Nationwide 90 FM in Kingston that he was the political figure mentioned in Postmedia reports about the incident from March 2012. Canada’s navy sailed into hot water after stopping a vessel carrying Jamaica’s former prime minister.