Outgoing People’s National Party (PNP) Member of Parliament for St Ann South East, Lisa Hanna, made a heartfelt social media post on Sunday (August 10) bidding farewell to representational politics.

The post came exactly three years after it was made public that she would be leaving the party and politics altogether. At the time of her announcement in 2022, she was the spokesperson on foreign affairs and foreign trade.

Expressing gratitude to the Jamaican people, particularly her constituents in the tribute post, Hanna said that her heart was brimming with appreciation as her years in politics have steeled her resolve.

For eighteen years, I have devoted my heart and soul to the people of South East St. Ann and to the People’s National Party.

Eight of those years were spent leading Region One as Chairman; later, I bore the sacred responsibility of serving as Party Treasurer. Each role demanded… pic.twitter.com/3EdGVLe0Vi

— Lisa Hanna (@LisaHannamp) August 10, 2025

Hanna currently represents St Ann South East in the House of Representatives, a seat she has held since 2007. 

Hanna announced in 2022 her intention in a letter to Opposition Leader and PNP president Mark Golding, notifying him that she will not be offering herself as a candidate for the PNP when the next general election is called.

Back in 2022, she stated, “I have always been a champion of change and having the courage to do what’s right even when it’s not expedient or self-serving, as I believe courage has an obligation to pave new roads for the generation coming behind us. As such, I have recently decided to conclude my current journey in representational politics at the end of this term.”

“Therefore, I will not be offering myself as the party’s candidate in the next general election when it is called, a decision I have communicated to my constituency executive,” she added.

Hanna, whose constituency has been dragged by internal conflict for years, also said in 2022, that she trusts that the “early notice” of her departure will give constituency delegates adequate time to go through a selection process to select a candidate of their choice, which is their constitutional right.

Hanna served as a Minister of Youth and Culture in the Portia Simpson Miller administration between 2012 and 2016. 

In 2007, former Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller formally invited her to join the PNP and be its standard bearer in South East St. Ann in the upcoming general elections as a fitting replacement to Aloun Assamba. That was a move that changed her life immensely, given that it allowed her to serve Jamaica in another capacity outside of beauty, following her Miss World win in 1993.

In the last general election, Hanna retained the seat by a mere 31 votes after a judicial recount at the St Ann’s Bay Courthouse on September 16, 2020.