Friday, May 25, 2012

Jamaica's government



Jamaica is a constitutional monarchy and a parlimentary democracy based on the U.K. model. The Jamaican constitution consists of 10 chapters, and 138 articles. The government is split into three branches, the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial.

The political parties in Jamaica are the People's National party, The Jamaican labour party, National Democratic Movement, and the New Nation Coalition. Suffrage in Jamaica starts at the age of 18. The Jamaican capital building is pictured below.






1 comment:

  1. The image used as the Jamaican Capitol building is not the Jamaican Capitol building. The image is the Capitol building of the island U.S territory of Puerto Rico held in San Juan. The building is referred as “El Capitolio de Puerto Rico”.

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