Portia Simpson Miller - First Female Prime Minister of Jamaica
Portia Simpson Miller stepped into the history books in September 2006 when she became Jamaica's first woman prime minister.
Portia Simpson Miller Biography
Portia Lucretia Simpson-Miller, ON, MP (born 12 December 1945 in Wood Hall, St. Catherine Parish) is Jamaica's Leader of the Opposition and was the country's Prime Minister from 30 March 2006 to 11 September 2007. She was Jamaica's first female Prime Minister.
About Jamaica
Jamaica () is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, 234 kilometres (146 mi) in length and as much as 80 kilometres (50 mi) in width situated in the Caribbean Sea. It is about 145 kilometres (90 mi) south of Cuba, and 190 kilometres (120 mi) west of the island of Hispaniola, on which Haiti and the Dominican Republic are situated. Its indigenous Arawakan-speaking TaĆno inhabitants named the island Xaymaca, meaning the "Land of Wood and Water", or the "Land of Springs". Formerly a Spanish possession known as Santiago, it later became the British West Indies Crown colony of Jamaica. It is the third most populous anglophone country in the Americas, after the United States and Canada.
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Learn more about Jamaica's first female prime minister
- Forbes - 100 Most Powerful Women 2006
- Infoplease - Portia Simpson Miller
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