} Juliet Holness (''

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'' Landell) is the wife of Jamaican Prime Minister

Andrew Holness Andrew Michael Holness, (born 22 July 1972) is a Jamaican politician who has been the Prime Minister of Jamaica since 3 March 2016, following the 2016 Jamaican general election. Holness previously served as prime minister from October 2011 to ...

and a Member of the

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, representing Saint Andrew East Rural. Holness is a motivational speaker, real estate owner, agent, accountant and writer. She was born and raised in St. Catherine,

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Early life

In 1997 she married

, whom she had met as a student at St. Catherine High School during the 1980s.

Political career

Holness was elected to Parliament in

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, and was re-elected in

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References

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