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Holness, as leader of the governing Jamaica Labour Party, was sworn in as Prime Minister on 7 September 2020, having been re-elected as a result of the JLP's landslide victory in the 2020 Jamaican general election. A disciplinary hearing into the case began in Kingston this month but so far no outcome has been announced. The prime minister of Jamaica is Jamaica's head of government, currently Andrew Holness. In May, the Jamaican world 200m champion Veronica Campbell-Brown tested positive for a banned diuretic. Fighting the Novel Coronavirus Local Government Minister Says Covid-19 Protocols Will Be More Strictly Enforced After Party Boat Incident In Negril Minister. She claimed there had been only one out-of-competition test between February 2012 and the start of the London Olympics five months later, and that Jadco had no officer keeping track of athletes so that they could be subject to on-the-spot tests.Īs well as Powell testing positive for the banned stimulant oxilofrine, Sherone Simpson, a 4x100m silver medallist at London 2012, also failed a drug test for the same substance. Her action comes after Renee Anne Shirley, the former executive director of the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (Jadco), told Sports Illustrated magazine the agency did not have the staff to carry out rigorous anti-doping programmes. became Jamaicas seventh Prime Minister in March 2006 and was conferred with the Order of the. Simpson-Miller is a former minister of sport in Jamaica and has retained the sport portfolio as well as being prime minister. The Most Honourable Portia Lucretia Simpson Miller O.N., M.P. "There have been some gaps over the years in what Jamaica has done and we would not like to see these gaps occur again, but we have no current issues with them." She is very interested in anti-doping issues and it shows their commitment to deal with this, and we will visit again for further discussions. Howman said: "We have had several responses from Jamaica including a personal response from the prime minister. However, corruption remains a serious problem. Howman said there are "no current issues" with Jamaica but Wada will visit the country and maintain checks. Jamaicas political system is democratic, and features competitive elections and orderly rotations of power.

Now, Portia Simpson-Miller, the prime minister of the Caribbean country, has contacted Wada and provided reassurances to the agency's director general David Howman. It comes after five Jamaican athletes tested positive for banned substances this summer, including the former 100m world record holder Asafa Powell. Wada issued a warning to the Jamaicans last month, that they needed to address claims by a former leading official of its anti-doping commission, that there had been numerous "troubling" problems and a lack of adequate testing. Jamaica's prime minister has promised the World Anti-Doping Agency that drug-testing of the country's sports stars will be a top priority.