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{{Short description|Jamaican politician (born 1949)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
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| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]] [[Doctor (title)|Dr]]
| honorific-prefix = [[The Honourable]]
| name = Peter David Phillips
| name = Peter David Phillips
| image = File:Peter David Phillips (politician) (cropped).png
| image = Peter David Phillips, 2015 (cropped).jpg
| caption = Phillips in 2015
| nationality = Jamaican
| honorific-suffix = [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
| honorific-suffix = [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
| office = [[Leader of the Opposition (Jamaica)|Leader of the Opposition]]
| office = [[Leader of the Opposition (Jamaica)|Leader of the Opposition]]
| primeminister = [[Andrew Holness]]
| primeminister = [[Andrew Holness]]
| term_start = 3 April 2017
| term_start = 3 April 2017
| term_end = 4 September 2020
| term_end = 11 November 2020
| predecessor = [[Portia Simpson Miller]]
| predecessor = [[Portia Simpson Miller]]
| successor = TBA
| successor = [[Mark Golding]]
| office2 = [[Ministries and Agencies of the Jamaican Government|Shadow Minister for Finance, Planning and the Public Service]]
| office2 = [[Ministries and Agencies of the Jamaican Government|Shadow Minister for Finance, Planning and the Public Service]]
| primeminister2 = [[Andrew Holness]]
| primeminister2 = [[Andrew Holness]]
| term_start2 = 7 March 2016
| term_start2 = 7 March 2016
| term_end2 =
| term_end2 =
| predecessor2 = [[Audley Shaw]]
| predecessor2 = [[Audley Shaw]]
| successor2 =
| successor2 =
| office3 = [[Minister of Finance and the Public Service|Minister of Finance, Planning and the Public Service]]
| office3 = [[Minister of Finance and the Public Service|Minister of Finance, Planning and the Public Service]]
| primeminister3 = [[Portia Simpson-Miller]]
| primeminister3 = [[Portia Simpson-Miller]]
| term_start3 = 5 January 2012
| term_start3 = 5 January 2012
| term_end3 = 7 March 2016
| term_end3 = 7 March 2016
| predecessor3 = [[Audley Shaw]]
| predecessor3 = [[Audley Shaw]]
| successor3 = [[Audley Shaw]]
| successor3 = [[Audley Shaw]]
| office4 = [[Ministries and Agencies of the Jamaican Government|Minister of National Security]]
| office4 = [[Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica]]
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| term_start4 = January 2012
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| primeminister4 = [[Percival James Patterson]]
| term_end4 = March 2016
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| term_start4 = 2002
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| primeminister4 = [[Portia Simpson-Miller]]
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| term_end4 = 11 September 2007
| predecessor4 = K.D. Knight
| predecessor4 = [[Kenneth Baugh]]
| successor4 = Trevor MacMillan
| successor4 = [[Horace Chang]] (2020)
| office5 = President of the [[People's National Party]]
| office5 = [[Ministries and Agencies of the Jamaican Government|Minister of National Security]]
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| primeminister5 = [[Percival James Patterson]]
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| term_start5 = 26 March 2017
| term_start5 = 2002
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| term_end5 = 7 November 2020
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| term_end5 = 11 September 2007
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| predecessor5 = [[Portia Simpson-Miller]]
| predecessor5 = K.D. Knight
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| successor5 = [[Mark Golding]]
| successor5 = Trevor MacMillan
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1949|12|28}}
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| office6 = President of the [[People's National Party]]
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| birth_place = [[Kingston, Jamaica]]
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| term_start6 = 26 March 2017
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| party = [[People's National Party]]
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| term_end6 = 7 November 2020
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| death_date =
| predecessor6 = [[Portia Simpson-Miller]]
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| death_place =
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| successor6 = [[Mark Golding]]
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| alma_mater =
| office7 = MP for [[Saint Andrew East Central (Jamaica Parliament constituency)|Saint Andrew East Central]]
| term_start7 = 1993
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1949|12|28}}
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| birth_place = [[Kingston, Jamaica]]
| party = [[People's National Party]]
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'''Peter Phillips''' {{small|[[Member of Parliament|MP]]}} (born 28 December 1949) is a [[Jamaicans|Jamaican]] politician who is the former president of the [[People's National Party]] and former leader of the Opposition in Jamaica. He served as [[Minister of Finance and the Public Service|Minister of Finance and Planning]] of Jamaica from 2012 to 2016.<ref name="mof">{{cite web | url=http://www.mof.gov.jm/people/minister/philips-peter | title=Philips, Peter | publisher=Ministry of Finance and Planning | accessdate=4 September 2012}}</ref><ref name="Gleaner20030606">{{cite news|url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030606/news/news2.html|first=Laura|last=Tanna|title=One-on-one with Peter Phillips|work=Jamaica Gleaner|date=2003-06-06|accessdate=2013-05-11}}</ref> He is Member of Parliament for East Central St Andrew.
'''Peter Phillips''' [[Order of Jamaica|OJ]] {{small|[[Member of Parliament|MP]]}} (born 28 December 1949) is a Jamaican politician who has served as the MP for [[Saint Andrew East Central (Jamaica Parliament constituency)|Saint Andrew East Central]] since 1993.
Phillips is the former president of the [[People's National Party]] and former leader of the Opposition in [[Jamaica]]. He served as [[Minister of Finance and the Public Service|Minister of Finance and Planning]] of Jamaica from 2012 to 2016.<ref name="mof">{{cite web | url=http://www.mof.gov.jm/people/minister/philips-peter | title=Philips, Peter | publisher=Ministry of Finance and Planning | accessdate=4 September 2012}}</ref><ref name="Gleaner20030606">{{cite news|url=http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20030606/news/news2.html|first=Laura|last=Tanna|title=One-on-one with Peter Phillips|work=Jamaica Gleaner|date=2003-06-06|accessdate=2013-05-11}}</ref> He is [[member of parliament]] for [[Saint Andrew East Central (Jamaica Parliament constituency)|East Central St Andrew]].


==Early life==
==Early life==
Phillips was born in Kingston to [[Mico Teachers' College]] lecturer Aubrey Sylvester Phillips and civil servant Thelma Limonius Phillips. Aubrey was a graduate of Mico, where he had roomed with [[Howard Cooke]], who would later become [[Governor-General of Jamaica]]. Phillips spent some of his infancy in [[Manchester Parish]] where both his mother's and father's parents lived. The family returned to Kingston and he started pre-school there before moving to [[Saint Ann Parish]] where his father took up a new job as principal of [[Moneague Teachers' College]]. He lived in the [[United Kingdom]] between ages six and nine while his father studied for a PhD there, and then returned to Jamaica, where he attended Jamaica College as a boarder.<ref name="Gleaner20030606"/>
Phillips was born in Kingston to [[Mico Teachers' College]] lecturer Aubrey Sylvester Phillips and civil servant Thelma Limonius Phillips. Aubrey was a graduate of Mico, where he had roomed with [[Howard Cooke]], who would later become [[Governor-General of Jamaica]].


He spent some of his infancy in [[Manchester Parish]] where both his mother's and father's parents lived. The family returned to Kingston and he started pre-school there before moving to [[Saint Ann Parish]] where his father took up a new job as principal of [[Moneague Teachers' College]].
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Phillips holds a bachelor's degree in Economics, a Master's in Government (from The University of the West Indies), and a Doctorate in Sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton (USA).

Phillips lived in the [[United Kingdom]] between ages six and nine while his father studied for a PhD there, and then returned to [[Jamaica]], where he attended [[Jamaica College]] as a boarder.<ref name="Gleaner20030606"/>

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Phillips holds a bachelor's degree in Economics, a Master's in Government (from The University of the West Indies), and a Doctorate in Sociology from the [[State University of New York]] at [[Binghamton, New York|Binghamton]] (USA).


==Political career==
==Political career==
Phillips first entered parliament as an appointed senator after the [[People's National Party]] won the [[1989 Jamaican general election|1989 general elections]]. He served as Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister until 1991, when he was appointed PNP General Secretary and Minister of Special Projects in the Office of the Prime Minister. He remained in post until 1994, when he was elected to parliament as the member for East Central St Andrew. He has remained the MP for the constituency since.
Phillips first entered parliament as an appointed senator after the [[People's National Party]] won the [[1989 Jamaican general election|1989 general elections]]. He served as Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister until 1991, when he was appointed PNP General Secretary and Minister of Special Projects in the Office of the Prime Minister. He remained in post until 1994, when he was elected to parliament as the member for [[Saint Andrew East Central (Jamaica Parliament constituency)|Saint Andrew East Central]]. He served as MP for that constituency for the duration of his political career.


Phillips served as minister of health under Prime Minister [[P.J. Patterson]] from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, Patterson appointed him minister of transport and works. He was elected a vice president of the PNP in 1999, serving with [[Portia Simpson Miller]]. He was subsequently{{when?|date=April 2024}} appointed minister of national security.
He served as Minister of Health from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, he was appointed Minister of Transport and Works. He was elected a vice president of the PNP in 1999, serving with [[Portia Simpson Miller]]. He was subsequently appointed Minister of National Security. He twice unsuccessfully ran for President of the PNP in 2006 and 2008. He lost ministerial office when the PNP lost the [[2007 Jamaican general election|2007 elections]]. However, after the party won the [[2011 Jamaican general election|2011 elections]], he was appointed Minister of Finance and Public Service. The PNP lost the [[2016 Jamaican general election|2016 elections]], after which Simpson Miller stood down as leader and Phillips won the subsequent leadership election in 2017. In 2019 he was challenged for the leadership by Peter Bunting, but was re-elected in the September vote. In the 2020 General Election, he was defeated by current Prime Minister, [[Andrew Holness]], by a 49-14 seat margin. He resigned as Opposition Leader and PNP President after the defeat, triggering the [[2020 People's National Party leadership election]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-04 |title=WATCH: Peter Phillips steps down |url=http://www.loopjamaica.com/content/watch-peter-phillips-demit-office |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=www.loopjamaica.com |language=en}}</ref>

Phillips twice unsuccessfully ran for President of the PNP in 2006 and 2008. He lost ministerial office when the PNP lost the [[2007 Jamaican general election|2007 elections]]. However, after the party won the [[2011 Jamaican general election|2011 elections]], he was appointed Minister of Finance and Public Service. Simpson-Miller also named him [[Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica|Deputy Prime Minister]] in an apparent attempt at party unity.<ref>{{cite web |last1=French |first1=Jhaneal |title=Where Does the People's National Party Go From Here? |url=https://www.caribbeannationalweekly.com/caribbean-breaking-news-featured/where-does-the-peoples-national-party-go-from-here/ |website=CNW Network |date=4 September 2020}}</ref>

==Party leader==
The PNP lost the [[2016 Jamaican general election|2016 elections]], after which Simpson Miller stood down as leader and Phillips won the subsequent leadership election in 2017. In 2019 he was challenged for the leadership by [[Peter Bunting]], but was re-elected in the September vote.

In the [[2020 Jamaican general election]], he was defeated by current Prime Minister, [[Andrew Holness]], by a 49-14 seat margin. However, the turnout at this election was just 37%, probably affected by the coronavirus pandemic.<ref>[http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20200903/javotes2020-jlp-trounces-pnp-49-14-seats JLP Trounces PNP 49 To 14 Seats] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200905085739/http://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20200903/javotes2020-jlp-trounces-pnp-49-14-seats |date=5 September 2020 }} The Gleaner, 3 September 2020</ref> He resigned as Opposition Leader and PNP President after the defeat, triggering the [[2020 People's National Party leadership election]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-09-04 |title=WATCH: Peter Phillips steps down |url=http://www.loopjamaica.com/content/watch-peter-phillips-demit-office |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=www.loopjamaica.com |language=en}}</ref>


==References==
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Latest revision as of 17:39, 16 July 2024

The Honourable
Peter David Phillips
MP
Phillips in 2015
Leader of the Opposition
In office
3 April 2017 – 11 November 2020
Prime MinisterAndrew Holness
Preceded byPortia Simpson Miller
Succeeded byMark Golding
Shadow Minister for Finance, Planning and the Public Service
Incumbent
Assumed office
7 March 2016
Prime MinisterAndrew Holness
Preceded byAudley Shaw
Minister of Finance, Planning and the Public Service
In office
5 January 2012 – 7 March 2016
Prime MinisterPortia Simpson-Miller
Preceded byAudley Shaw
Succeeded byAudley Shaw
Deputy Prime Minister of Jamaica
In office
January 2012 – March 2016
Prime MinisterPortia Simpson-Miller
Preceded byKenneth Baugh
Succeeded byHorace Chang (2020)
Minister of National Security
In office
2002 – 11 September 2007
Prime MinisterPercival James Patterson
Preceded byK.D. Knight
Succeeded byTrevor MacMillan
President of the People's National Party
In office
26 March 2017 – 7 November 2020
Preceded byPortia Simpson-Miller
Succeeded byMark Golding
MP for Saint Andrew East Central
Incumbent
Assumed office
1993
Personal details
Born (1949-12-28) 28 December 1949 (age 74)
Kingston, Jamaica
Political partyPeople's National Party

Peter Phillips OJ MP (born 28 December 1949) is a Jamaican politician who has served as the MP for Saint Andrew East Central since 1993.

Phillips is the former president of the People's National Party and former leader of the Opposition in Jamaica. He served as Minister of Finance and Planning of Jamaica from 2012 to 2016.[1][2] He is member of parliament for East Central St Andrew.

Early life

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Phillips was born in Kingston to Mico Teachers' College lecturer Aubrey Sylvester Phillips and civil servant Thelma Limonius Phillips. Aubrey was a graduate of Mico, where he had roomed with Howard Cooke, who would later become Governor-General of Jamaica.

He spent some of his infancy in Manchester Parish where both his mother's and father's parents lived. The family returned to Kingston and he started pre-school there before moving to Saint Ann Parish where his father took up a new job as principal of Moneague Teachers' College.

Phillips lived in the United Kingdom between ages six and nine while his father studied for a PhD there, and then returned to Jamaica, where he attended Jamaica College as a boarder.[2]

Phillips holds a bachelor's degree in Economics, a Master's in Government (from The University of the West Indies), and a Doctorate in Sociology from the State University of New York at Binghamton (USA).

Political career

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Phillips first entered parliament as an appointed senator after the People's National Party won the 1989 general elections. He served as Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister until 1991, when he was appointed PNP General Secretary and Minister of Special Projects in the Office of the Prime Minister. He remained in post until 1994, when he was elected to parliament as the member for Saint Andrew East Central. He served as MP for that constituency for the duration of his political career.

Phillips served as minister of health under Prime Minister P.J. Patterson from 1995 to 1997. In 1998, Patterson appointed him minister of transport and works. He was elected a vice president of the PNP in 1999, serving with Portia Simpson Miller. He was subsequently[when?] appointed minister of national security.

Phillips twice unsuccessfully ran for President of the PNP in 2006 and 2008. He lost ministerial office when the PNP lost the 2007 elections. However, after the party won the 2011 elections, he was appointed Minister of Finance and Public Service. Simpson-Miller also named him Deputy Prime Minister in an apparent attempt at party unity.[3]

Party leader

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The PNP lost the 2016 elections, after which Simpson Miller stood down as leader and Phillips won the subsequent leadership election in 2017. In 2019 he was challenged for the leadership by Peter Bunting, but was re-elected in the September vote.

In the 2020 Jamaican general election, he was defeated by current Prime Minister, Andrew Holness, by a 49-14 seat margin. However, the turnout at this election was just 37%, probably affected by the coronavirus pandemic.[4] He resigned as Opposition Leader and PNP President after the defeat, triggering the 2020 People's National Party leadership election.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "Philips, Peter". Ministry of Finance and Planning. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
  2. ^ a b Tanna, Laura (6 June 2003). "One-on-one with Peter Phillips". Jamaica Gleaner. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  3. ^ French, Jhaneal (4 September 2020). "Where Does the People's National Party Go From Here?". CNW Network.
  4. ^ JLP Trounces PNP 49 To 14 Seats Archived 5 September 2020 at the Wayback Machine The Gleaner, 3 September 2020
  5. ^ "WATCH: Peter Phillips steps down". www.loopjamaica.com. 4 September 2020. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
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