Meet the Honourable Percival James Patterson; Former Prime Minister of Jamaica and one of the speakers at the Jamaica Stock Exchange’s Investments and Capital Markets Conference to be held at the Jamaica Pegasus Hotel; January 25-27, 2011.
Prime Minister of Jamaica, 1992-; attorney and lifelong political organizer and politician. Party organizer, People’s National Party of Jamaica, 1958-60; party vice president, 1969-82; party chairman, 1983-; member, Jamaican Senate, 1967-70; member, Jamaican House of Representatives, 1970s and 1980s; Minister of Industry, Foreign Trade, and Tourism, Government of Jamaica, beginning in 1972; deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade, 1979-80, 1989-90; deputy prime minister and minister of development, planning, and production, 1990-91, resigned, 1992; elected prime minister of Jamaica, 1992 in special election caused by the death of Prime Minsiter Michael Manley; reelected 1993, 1997.
