Delano Franklyn
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Delano Franklyn is a practicing Attorney-at-Law and is one of the founding partners of the law firm Wilson Franklyn Barnes.http://www.wfbjamaicalawyers.com His area of legal work includes, civil and criminal litigation, conveyancing, land, labour, intellectual property, entertainment and sports law. He is also chairman of the Michael Manley Foundation.

An Attorney-at-Law and trained teacher, Franklyn was educated at Kingston College, Mico Teachers’ College, the University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, Cave Hill, Barbados, and the Norman Manley Law School, Mona Jamaica. He was called to the Bar in 1995.

During his years at High School, College and University, Mr. Franklyn was elected as President of a number of student and youth organisations at the national level. In 1995 he was appointed the Manager of the National Youth Service (NYS). He is the only Jamaican to have been the President of both the National Secondary Students’ Council (NSSC) and the Jamaica Union of Tertiary Students (JUTS), and also the only Jamaican to have been elected President of the Guild of Undergraduates at both campuses of the University of the West Indies in Mona and Cave Hill, respectively.

In 1998 was appointed the Chief Advisor to the then Prime Minister of Jamaica, PJ Patterson. In 1999 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace and in 2000, he was one of the distinguished graduates who received the Millennium Award from the Mico Teachers College. In October 2002 he was appointed a Senator and the Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade with special responsibility for:
  • The Jamaican Diaspora and Overseas Communities
  • Countries of the Caribbean and the Americas
  • Association of Caribbean States (ACS)
  • Summit of the Americas
  • Consular Affairs
  • Marine & Aviation Affairs
  • Latin America and Economic Systems (SELA)
  • Organisation of American States (OAS)
  • UNESCO
  • The Rio Group


In October 2006, he was appointed by the then Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller to give ministerial oversight to Jamaica's role in Cricket World Cup
Cricket World Cup
The ICC Cricket World Cup is the premier international championship of men's One Day International cricket. The event is organised by the sport's governing body, the International Cricket Council , with preliminary qualification rounds leading up to a finals tournament which is held every four years...

 2007, which took place in nine Caribbean territories in March and April 2007.

In September 2007 he was a candidate in the general elections for the People's National Party
People's National Party
The People's National Party is a social democratic and social liberal Jamaican political party, founded by Norman Manley in 1938. It is the oldest political party in the Anglophone Caribbean and one of the main two political parties in Jamaica. Out of the two major parties, it is considered more...

(PNP) in Western St. Mary.

Franklyn has written numerous articles on a range of issues which have been published in national newspapers, the Jamaica Observer, the Gleaner and the Herald.

He is the author and editor of the books,http://www.delanofranklynbooks.com The Right Move - Corporate Leadership and Governance in Jamaica (2001), A Jamaican Voice in Caribbean and World Politics (2002), The Challenges of Change (2003), We Want Justice - Jamaica and the Caribbean Court of Justice (2005), Michael Manley –The Politics of Equality (2009) and Sprinting Into History – Jamaica and the 2008 Olympic Games (2009).

Franklyn lives in Kingston, Jamaica and has two children.
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