Jamahl Simmons
Personal Information
Organization / Workplace
Saint George, Saint George, Bermuda
Occupation
Press Secretary to the Premier of Bermuda
About
Jamahl Snaith Simmons is the son of former Parliamentarian Lionel D. Simmons and author Cecille Snaith. He grew up in Somerset, Bermuda and attended West End Primary School, later attending high school at the Berkeley Institute in Pembroke, Bermuda. and then at Kent's Hill School in Maine. He studied Political Science at Howard University in Washington DC and returned to Bermuda in 1997, beginning a career in broadcast journalism at the Defontes Broadcasting Company. In 1998 he received a Bermuda Gold Award for Bermuda's Best Sportscaster.
Jamahl Simmons was elected to Parliament for the constituency of Pembroke West on February 7, 2002 in a by-election. In 2002 he received a Bermuda Gold