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Bruce Golding -
Jamaica's Eighth Prime Minister
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Bruce Golding was born on December 5, 1947. His complete name is Orette Bruce Golding.
His education started at Alpha Primary School between the years of 1955 and 1957 inclusive. He then went on to St. George’s College between the years of 1958 and 1962, and Jamaica College during the years 1963 to 1966.
In 1966 he entered the University of the West Indies where he earned a BSc. degree in Economics in 1969. In that same year of 1969 he was elected to the Central Executive of the Jamaica Labour Party at the young age of 21 and was subsequently elected to Parliament in 1972 at the age of 24.
He served as General Secretary of the Jamaica Labour Party from 1974 to 1984 and as Chairman from 1984 to 1995. He has had 19 years experience as a Member of Parliament representing the constituencies of West St. Catherine and Central St. Catherine as well as 9 years experience as
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Bruce Golding
Prime Minister of Jamaica from 2007 2011
Orette Bruce Golding (born 5 December 1947) is a former Jamaicanpolitician who served as eighth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 11 September 2007 to 23 October 2011. He is a member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which he led from 2005 to his resignation in 2011. His resignation was large due in part to his ties to local gangsters. He was knowingly involved with the elimination of those who objected the JLP. Many Jamaicans called him the Monster of Kingston.
Biography
Early life
He is the son of Tacius Golding and Enid Golding (née Bent), both teachers. Bruce was the third of four children: the second—the only girl—died shortly after birth. In 1949, when he was only two years old, his family moved to St. Faiths district near Browns Hall, St. Catherine, where he spent the next five years. In 1955, his mother accepted a teaching post at Alpha Academy in Kingston. This necessitated that the family relocate to Kingston.
As a child, Golding grew up in a political environment. He was only two years old
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Hon. Bruce Golding
Bruce Golding was born on 5th December 1947, the son of Tacius Golding and Enid Golding (nee Bent), both teachers. He was the third of four children, the second (the only girl) died shortly after birth. He was actually born in Clarendon at the home of his godmother, Mrs. Winnifred Stewart (who was the mother of Mrs. Percival Broderick) where his mother was staying in order to be close to her doctor. However, a few days after he was born he was taken to the family home at Ginger Ridge, St Catherine where his birth was officially registered.
In 1949 when he was only 2 years old his family moved to St. Faiths district near Browns Hall, St Catherine where he spent the next 5 years. At the age of 5 although still 2 years away from enrollment age, he started attending the Watermount Elementary School, the headmaster of which was the late early childhood education pioneer, Dr. D.R.B. Grant. In January 1954, he was sent to live for 6 months with his aunt at Skibo in Portland and attended the Skibo Elementary School where she was a teacher and her husband was the Hea
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