Julia Gillard, for example, reportedly receives around $200,000 a year, while Tony Abbott takes home $307,542.Īnd that doesn’t include… Entitlements. But let’s just say, none are exactly slumming it. The annual pension paid to former PMs is determined by several factors, including the length of their service and the positions they held over that time. Wouldn’t it be nice to keep getting paid for a job long after you chuck it in or get fired? Such is one of the many perks afforded to a former Prime Minister. Here’s what we’re paying for: A six-figure pension for life. Listen: Mia Freedman interviews Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Of course, plenty make decent coin via speaking gigs and consultancy jobs, but generally it’s up to us – the taxpayers – to fund their lives after The Lodge. The current salary for a sitting Prime Minister is $517,504, and the money keeps rolling in long after they wave goodbye to Capital Hill. The criticism, the scrutiny, the wellbeing of 23 million people resting on your shoulders - you couldn’t pay me enough to do it. The Commonwealth Library Association has its secretariat at the Mona, Kingston, campus of the University of the West Indies.It’s meant to be the toughest job in the country, being Prime Minister.
Learn more about the Connectivity Agendaįour Jamaican women have won Commonwealth Writers’ Prizes: Olive Senior in 1987 (Best Book) Erna Brodber in 1989 Alecia McKenzie in 1993 and Vanessa Spence in 1994. The Connectivity Agenda is a platform for countries to exchange best practices and experiences to trade and investment and undertake domestic reform. Guyana is a member of the Regulatory Connectivity clusters of the Commonwealth Connectivity Agenda. Jamaica is a member of the Mangrove Ecosystems and Livelihoods and Marine Protected Areas Action Groups. Learn more about the Secretariat's climate change work. Jamaica used the Commonwealth’s Climate Finance Access Hub to access money from international projects and funds to help it tackle climate change. Learn more about the Secretariat's natural resources work. The Secretariat advised Jamaica on managing its petroleum and mining sector resources more sustainably. It helped the country negotiate a new production sharing contract. Learn more about the Secretariat's trade work. Jamaica attracted US$20 million in investment as a result. The Secretariat helped Jamaica develop a Maritime Hub Strategy. This involved analysis of bunkering (the supplying of fuel for ships) and dry docking (a narrow basin that is flooded to allow a load to be floated in, then drained to allow that load to rest on a dry platform). Learn more about the Secretariat's youth and education work. The Secretariat helped Jamaica with recommendations to improve boys’ education. The Secretariat Youth Programme helped Jamaica increase youth employment and encouraged young people to set up businesses. Learn more about the Secretariat's countering violent extremism work. The focus was on the country’s prisoners. The Secretariat helped senior officials in Jamaica strengthen their skills, systems and processes to tackle violent and extremist views. The Secretariat's Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) project helped Jamaica prepare a Counter-Terrorism Strategy. The project focused particularly on women and young people. In 2018, a Secretariat project encouraged partnerships and dialogue in Jamaica to prevent violence and conflict. Learn more about the Secretariat's elections work. Its election officials improved their knowledge of campaign and party financing, women’s participation and new media. Jamaica received Commonwealth Election Professionals (CEP) Initiative training in May 2018. Secretariat support for Jamaica Elections Commonwealth Youth Index: 12 out of 49 countries. 
Joined Commonwealth: 1962, following independence from Britain.Its close neighbours are Haiti, to the east, and Cuba, to the north. There are mountains and plateaus to the interior and east of the island. It is surrounded by coastal plains, with sandy beaches and many natural bays. It lies 630 kilometres north-east of mainland Central America.
Jamaica is a large island in the Caribbean Sea.
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