Floyd O'Brian Green is a Jamaican politician from the Labour Party. He has been Member of Parliament for

Saint Elizabeth South Western Saint Elizabeth South Western is a parliamentary constituency represented in the Parliament of Jamaica. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election. The constituency covers the south west part of Saint Eliz ...

since

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Education

He graduated from

Munro College Munro College is a boarding school for boys in St Elizabeth, Jamaica. It was founded in 1856 as the Potsdam School (named for the city of Potsdam), a school for boys in St. Elizabeth as stipulated in the will of plantation owners Robert Hugh Munr ...

and the

University of the West Indies The University of the West Indies (UWI), originally University College of the West Indies, is a public university system established to serve the higher education needs of the residents of 18 English-speaking countries and territories in t ...

Political career

In September 2021, he resigned as

Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a United Kingdom cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The post was originally named President of the Board of Agriculture and was created in 1889 ...

after being filmed at a social gathering during COVID-19 lockdown in breach of public health restrictions. In December 2022, he called for increased support for local police after a number of murders in his constituency.

References

Living people People educated at Munro College University of the West Indies alumni Fisheries ministers of Jamaica Ministers of agriculture of Jamaica Members of the House of Representatives of Jamaica Jamaica Labour Party politicians People from Saint Elizabeth Parish Year of birth missing (living people) Members of the 13th Parliament of Jamaica Members of the 14th Parliament of Jamaica {{Jamaica-politician-stub