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Wednesday, 16 October, 2002, 13:32 GMT 14:32 UK
Profile: Jamaica's PJ as PM
![]() PJ Patterson has been Jamaica's premier for the past 10 years
Mr Patterson, an attorney by profession, has been prime minister since March 1992 when he was chosen by his People's National Party to succeed Michael Manley, who retired because of ill health.
However, by the time he was re-elected in 1989, Mr Manley had refashioned himself as an advocate of the free market. Mr Patterson's career in politics has shown views similarly diverse to those of Mr Manley. Described as an architect of Mr Manley's later economic policies, Mr Patterson continued on the road of reform taken by Edward Seaga, who was prime minister in the 1980s and is challenging for the job again at this election. But Mr Patterson also followed Mr Manley with his criticism of the US embargo against Cuba. When President Castro visited Jamaica in 1998, Mr Patterson said: "We are opposed to the blockade of Cuba, which is morally wrong. No-one is going to cause us to ignore that we are close neighbours." Farmer's son Percival James Patterson was born at St Andrew, Jamaica.
He studied at home and overseas, and was nominated to the Senate when he was 32. He joined the House of Representatives in 1970 and started a steady climb up the political ladder. |
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