Everything about Percival Patterson totally explained
Percival Noel James Patterson,
ON,
QC (born
10 April 1935) was the
Prime Minister of Jamaica from 1992 to 2006. Until February 2006 he was the leader of the
Jamaican
People's National Party. The new PNP leader,
Portia Simpson-Miller, took over as Prime Minister on
30 March 2006. Patterson was Jamaica's longest-serving Prime Minister.
Early life
Patterson is a graduate of the
University of the West Indies Mona Campus, and the
London School of Economics.
He first entered politics in 1969, winning a
by-election to a seat in western Jamaica, campaigning with the slogan "Young, gifted, and black".
Patterson served in a variety of cabinet posts under Prime Minister
Michael Manley, both in the 1970s, and during Manley's second prime ministership at the end of the 1980s and beginning of the 1990s.
Premiership
He became Prime Minister and leader of the People's National Party himself when Manley resigned in 1992. Prior to the resignation Patterson was tied to a controversial scandal but miraculously led the party to victory in the three successive elections, an unprecedented record in Jamaican electoral history.
He made headlines in 2004 when it was announced that
Jamaica (as well as
Saint Kitts and Nevis and
Venezuela) wouldn't recognize the internationally-installed government of
Gérard Latortue in Haiti following the U.S. Marine invasion that removed the democratically elected
Jean-Bertrand Aristide from office. Patterson was instrumental in arranging for Aristide to take up temporary residence in Jamaica during Aristide's lawsuit against the United States and France accusing the countries of kidnapping him.
Following
Hurricane Katrina Patterson offered 30 trips for two, all expenses paid, to Jamaica for victims of the hurricane.
Post-premiership
Following his premiership, from
2006 to
2007, he chaired the
Committee on Commonwealth Membership, which presented its report on potential changes in
membership criteria for the
Commonwealth of Nations at the
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 2007 in
Kampala,
Uganda.
Memberships and Awards
Upon becoming the Prime Minister of Jamaica in 1992 Patterson was invested with the
Order of the Nation allowing him to be known as "The Most Honourable" and to use the post-nominal letters "O.N."
In 2006 he was invested with the Order of Excellence of Guyana
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) allowing him to use the postnominal letters "O.E."
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Patterson is a Member of the
Global Leadership Foundation, an organization which works to promote good governance around the world.
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