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Bruce Golding, is the present time Prime Minister of Jamaica starting from September 11th 2007, preceded by Mrs. Portia Simpson Millar, and which makes him the 8 th Prime Minister since Jamaica’s Independence. He is also the leader of the Jamaica Labor Party and the National Democratic Movement founder.
Orette Bruce Golding, which is his full name, was born to Tacius Golding and Enid Golding, both of them teachers, on December 5th of 1947 in Clarendon, Jamaica. He grew up in a political environment, for his father Tacius Golding was elected Member of the House of Representatives for West St. Catherine when Bruce Golding was only two years old, and stayed there for 22 years until he retired in the year 1972. Since he had a very tight relationship with his father, as soon as he turned 12 years old Bruce Golding traveled and accompanied his father Tacius Golding to political meetings during the referendum campaign in year 1961.
In the year 1969 he graduated from the West Indies University with a degree in economics and majored in public administration. As soon as he finished the University, he went right into the political business.
In the year 1968 he was elected Vice Chairman for the Jamaican Labor Party Constituency Executive for West St. Catherine, and won in the year1972 with 24 years of age and with 893 votes, a fact that turned him into the youngest person elected for Parliament, and until these days, no one has ever achieved this mark again. He also founded Young Jamaica in 1970, the party’s youth affiliate. In the 1980 elections, Golding made it to the Senate and when he was 32 years old he was appointed Minister of Construction in the new Jamaican Labor Party government.
He was re-elected in two more occasions one in the year 1989 and the other in year 1993, increasing his majority in votes in every election. He also replaced the Prime Minister a couple of times when the Prime minister and Deputy Prime Minister had to travel away from the island. Golding was also elected Chairman of the Jamaican Labor Party in 1984 succeeding the late Dr. Ronald Irvine.
Bruce Golding married with Lorna Golding in the year 1972, a marriage that has lasted for 32 years now and is the proud parents of three children: one son called Steven, and two daughters named Sherene and Ann-Merita.
