David Coore

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David Hilton Coore OJ , QC (born August 1925 in Anchovy , St. James ; † November 14, 2011 in the Dominican Republic ) was a Jamaican lawyer and politician for the People's National Party (PNP).

Life

Coore attended Jamaica College in Kingston . He graduated from McGill University in Canada, where he earned a degree in economics . He then studied law at the University of Oxford in England. After completing his studies, he returned to Jamaica and worked there as a lawyer from 1951.

He was a member of the Jamaican Legislative Council from 1959 and was then appointed to the committee that drafted the country's constitution in 1961, the year before Jamaica gained independence.

Coore was considered a close friend of Michael Manley , whom he had already met while at Jamaica College. When Manley became chairman of the PNP in 1969, Coore held the office of chairman of the party. Coore was a member of the House of Representatives for the constituency of St Andrew West Central from 1967 to 1976 and for St Andrew West from 1976 to 1978. After the PNP won the 1972 election and Manley became Prime Minister, he appointed Coore as Treasury Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister.

Coore resigned as minister in 1978 and then worked for the Inter-American Development Bank until 1986 , including as a representative in the Dominican Republic and Barbados .

In 1989 he returned to active politics, was appointed senator and appointed minister of foreign and foreign trade. From 1993 to 1995 he was Attorney General and Minister for Legal Affairs. In later years he worked for the PNP as an advisor on constitutional issues.

Coore has been married four times and has three sons. One of his sons is Stephen Coore, who became known as one of the founders of the reggae band Third World . Coore had lived in the Dominican Republic, home of his last wife, since April 2011. He died there on November 14, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Coore: 1925-2011 - Contributor to Jamaica's Constitution passes , Jamaica Gleaner, November 15, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  2. ↑ David Coore - nation builder , Jamaica Observer, December 4, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  3. ↑ David Coore is dead , Jamaica Observer, November 14, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2011.
  4. ↑ Statement from PM Holness on the passing of the Honorable David Coore  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Government of Jamaica, Office of the Prime Minister, November 14, 2011. Retrieved December 6, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.opm.gov.jm  
personal data
SURNAME Coore, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coore, David Hilton (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Anchovy , St. James , Jamaica
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 2011
Place of death Dominican Republic