Honourable Orette Bruce
Golding
Prime Minister
Date of Birth: 5
December 1947
Marital Status: Married
Education:
1969: B.Sc. (Hons)
Economics
Professional/Political Career:
1969: Elected to the Central
Executive of the Jamaica Labour Party
1972: Elected to Parliament.
Appointed to Board of Directors of Institute of Jamaica
1974-1984: General Secretary
of Jamaica Labour Party
1980-1989: Minister of
Construction
1983: Elected Member of
Parliament
1984-1985: Chairman of the
United Nations Commission on Human Settlements
1984-1995: Chairman, Jamaica
Labour Party
1989-1995: Opposition
Spokesman on Finance and Chairman of the Public Accounts
Committee
1995: Resigned from the
Jamaica Labour Party and Founded National Democratic
Movement (NDM)
1995-2001: President, National
Democratic Movement
2002: Re-Joined Jamaica Labour
Party
2002-2005: Appointed Senator
and Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Foreign
Trade
2003: Elected Chairman of
Jamaica Labour Party
2005: Elected Leader of
Jamaica Labour Party, Member of Parliament for West
Kingston, and Leader of the Opposition
2007: Elected Prime Minister
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