Esme Grant
Esme Grant | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Labour and National Insurance | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Rt. Hon Edward Seaga |
| Personal details | |
| Nationality | Jamaican |
| Political party | Jamaica Labour Party |
Esme Grant was a Jamaican politician. She was one of the first women elected to the Parliament of Jamaica.[1]
Political career
She was JLP candidate for Westmoreland Central in the 1962 Jamaican general election. She impressed the party leader that she was made the first female parliamentary secretary of independent Jamaica — working at the education ministry.[2] In the 1967 general election she stood in Westmoreland North Eastern but lost to Jim Thompson.[3]
She was acting Minister of Labour and National Insurance in the 1970s.[4] She resigned from the Senate of Jamaica in 1976.[5]
References
- ^ "JLP floods House with women". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2020-09-04. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "The milestone that charted Jamaica's nationalism 55 years since the 1962 General Elections". Jamaica Observer. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "Women and the Jamaican Political Process – Part IV: Women and the Politics of Change". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2021-02-22. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "Miss Jamaica International underscores country's interest in pageantry". jamaica-gleaner.com. 2021-06-04. Retrieved 2022-03-14.
- ^ "PressReader.com - Digital Newspaper & Magazine Subscriptions". www.pressreader.com. Retrieved 2022-03-14.