The birthplaces of Jamaican elected Prime ministers

( primeminsters )

Up until 2006 the Carribean island of Jamaica has had 2 Chief Ministers and 7 Prime Ministers one of who was both Chief and Prime Minister.

KEY C = Chief Minister P = Prime Minister

Table showing regions producing PM

South West 3

North West 2

South East 2

USA 1

Details on the birthplaces of Jamacian PM birthplaces

Bleinhem: Birth place of Sir Alexander Bustamante

Blenheim, is a rural hilly district in Hanover Jamacia. Blenheim is thought to be named after Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, Britain, the birthplace of Winston Churchill. The house of Bustamante was reconstructed by the JNHT after a fire. The present building houses exhibitions on the PM 's life.

Manchester the birthplace of Norman Manley

Manchester was formed in 1814. No sugar estates can be found in the parish, slaves worked on coffee plantations. After emancipation, the ex-slaves became independent coffee farmers.

Over nine tenths of the parish's surface is limestone creating an abundance of cockpits, sinkholes, caves and underground passages. The Oxford Cave is the largest of 20 known caves in the parish. Manchester also has large bauxite deposits. The parish offers a variety of climate, vegetation and scenery. The capital, Mandeville, is situated at an elevation of 626 metres. Water supply is generally scarce; the southern districts often suffer drought. The population of Manchester is 190,000.

Saint Elizabeth Parish: the birtplace of Sir Donald Sangster


The parish has a population of 148,000 and engages in Tourism, Agriculture and Bauxine Mining Manufactoring, located in the southwest of the island, in the county of Cornwall. There are also traces of Tainos/Arawaks existence in the parish, as well as Spanish settlements. The northern and north eastern parts of the parish are mountainous. There are three mountain ranges —the Nassau Mountains to the north east, the Lacovia Mountains west of the Nassau Mountains, and the Santa Cruz Mountains which, runn south, divide the wide plain to end in a dramatic fall of 1600 feet. The central and southern sections form an extensive plain divided by the Santa Cruz Mountains. The lowlands are covered by morass, but still provide grazing land for horses and mules.

Black River is the main river in the parish, and measures 53.4 kilometres (33 miles), the longest river in Jamaica. It is navigable for about 40 kilometres (25 miles).

There are Limestone formations in the parish, resulting in caves. These include Mexico (the longest in the island). Wallingford Caves near Balaclava, famous for the fossil remains of large extinct rodents and Peru Cave near Goshen which has stalactites and stalagmites are to other famous caves. Mineral deposits include bauxite, antimony, white limestone, clay, peat and silica sand. In the 19th century Irish, Scots and Germans migrated to Saint Elizabeth, accounting for pockets of racial mixtures, notably in the southeast.

Trelawny Parish: Birthplace of Hugh Shearer

Trelawny is best known for sugar estates and factories. It had more sugar estates than any parish, so there was need for a sea coast town to export it. Falmouth became a seaport and social centre. The town had two newspapers; The Falmouth Post and Falmouth Gazette. The parish has a population of Population 74,000, and engages in agriculture and manufacturing. Trelawny was home to the largest group of Maroons in Jamaica. A 1739 treaty gave the Maroons freedom and land, which stopped their raids on the plantations. Yet, a second Maroon uprising in 1795, led to over 600 Maroons being exiled.

Most of the parish is flat, with wide plains such as Queen of Spain's Valley, 750 feet above sea level, and Windsor, 580 feet above sea level. Most of southern Trelawny at 750 feet above sea level. The highest point is Mount Ayr which at 3000 feet.

The southern section of Trelawny is part of Cockpit Country, and is uninhabitable. It is a natural reserve for flora and fauna; most of Jamaica's 27 endemic bird species are found there, along with the yellow snakes, and giant swallowtail butterflies, the largest butterfly in the hemisphere.

Most of the parish has the typical limestone features of cockpits, sinkholes, caves and underground passages. There are about 48 caves, most with phosphate gatherings.

Kingston (Capital): Birthplace of Michael Manley

(population 652,000) the capital of Jamaica. The city is located on the south easte coast of the island. Kingston was founded in 1693 by refugees from an earthquake destroying much of the previous port city of Port Royal. Kingston outgrew the official capital in Spanish Town. The city became an administrative capital of Jamaica in 1872. Keeping the status in independence from 1962. On January 14, 1907, an earthquake in Kingston destroyed about 75% of the buildings. The city became home to the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies founded in 1948.

The 1960s saw the commercial activity expanding north. Knutsford race course became New Kingston, and uptown shopping plazas were developed causing the decline of the commercial and shopping centres of King Street and Harbour Street. An area of 95 acres along the waterfront was redeveloped with wide landscaped boulevards and major buildings including the Bank of Jamaica, Scotia Bank Centre, the Jamaica Conference Centre, and Kingston Mall.

Boston USA:. birthplace of Edward Seaga
Boston the capital of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the USA. The largest city and unofficial capital of the region known as New England. Boston is one of the oldest, wealthiest, and most culturally significant large cities in the United States. Its economy is based on education, health care, finance, and technology. An important town in Boston is Jamacia Plain which is important for medcial industry, and has a rich identity. It has a medical centre call an area called Jamica Plain

Westmoreland Parish: Birthplace of P. J. Patterson
The parish has a Population of 141,000 and engages in Tourism, Agriculture and Manufacturing
Westmoreland is the westernmost parish in Jamaica. Christopher Columbus stopped at Westmoreland on his voyage when he landed at Jamaica. One of the first Spanish settlements was also built at what is now Bluefields.

The parish was named Westmoreland in 1703, because it was the most westerly point in the island.

In 1938, riots at the Frome sugar estate, changed Jamaica's history. The changes came in the wake of riots leading to universal adult suffrage in 1944, as well as a constitution, which put Jamaica to self government and independence. The two national heroes, Sir Alexander Bustamante and Norman Washington Manley, emerged as political leaders during this time. Westmoreland's population is made up of a large percentage of Indians, who are the descendants of Indentured Laborers who came to Jamaica from India to work.

There are over 10,000 acres of morass land, the largest part of which is called Great Morass, containing plant and animal material collected over centuries. The morass is mined as peat, and it also serves as a natural sanctuary for Jamaican wildlife. The remaining area contians hills of moderate elevation, and alluvial plains.
The fertile plains, enable the parish to thrive on agriculture, mainly sugarcane, which offers employment. Other agricultural products include bananas, coffee, ginger, cocoa, pimento, honey, rice, and breadfruit. Pastoralism is important too; the rearing of cattle, horses, and mules, as well as fishing.

Since the 1950s, tourism has been the single fastest growing sector especially in Negril .

St Catherine: birthplace of Portia Simpson-Miller

A parish located in the south east of Jamaica. located in the county of Middlesex. With a population of 500,000 the parish engages in Tourism, Agriculture and Manufacturing.

Except for the Hellshire Hills near the coast, the south of the parish is flat. The central and northern sections are very mountainous, however; the northern border is on Mount Diablo, which crosses over into St Ann, the highest point being 686 metres (2,700 feet).

A plain of 57,000 acres occupies southern Rio Cobre basin. The Rio Cobre is the only river that runs along the southern plain. It provides water to irrigate over 18,000 acres, and provides electricity for the capital and surrounding towns like Linstead, Riversdale, Old Harbour, and the urban sections of Kingston and St Andrew.

Sugar cultivation and plantations were established soon after the Spannish settled in the island.

When the British took the island over they renamed the capital Spanish Town, and kept it as the administrative capital of the island. For two centuries it prospered, and was one of the most populus areas on the island. Taverns, theatres, a slave market were established in the parish.

Agriculture remains the major source of employment. There are many farmers who practise mixed farming; crops such as bananas, coconuts, pineapple, citrus, pumpkins, peppers, calaloo and coffee. The larger properties produce sugar cane, bananas and citrus mainly for export.
St Catherine is second to Kingston as an industrial centre. Industrial plants are some of the biggest employers in the parish. Spanish Town is the largest salt producing plant in the Caribbean, and Jamaica Milk Products, an affiliate of the Nestle organization, has a factory in Bog Walk, another major town in the parish.
Jamaica's Emancipation Square can be found in Spanish Town. The Rio Cobre River and Gorge is one of the largest in the island. Sinking at a place called River Sink at Worthy Park, it runs underground for nearly six kilometres, surfacing at River Head Grand Cave in St Thomas-in-the-Vale.
Caymanas Race Track, Jamaica's famous race track, is in St Catherine.

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