Governor-General Professor Kenneth Hall issued a proclamation dissolving Parliament today, bringing an end to the tenure of the 60 Members of Parliament and 21 Senators.

Prime Minister and President of the People's National Party (PNP) Portia Simpson Miller wrote to the Governor-General - advising him to issue the proclamation for the dissolution of Parliament.

Clerk to the Houses of Parliament, Heather Cooke told The Gleaner yesterday that she had received the proclamation.

However the term of the current legislature has expired, ministers of the Portia Simpson Miller-led administration will still be required to perform their ministerial duties until a new government is elected.

On July 8, the PNP president announced at a party rally in Half-Way Tree that Nomination Day would be on August 7 and that the general election would be held on August 27.