Horace Chang

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Horace Anthony Chang (born November 10, 1952 in Westmoreland ) is a Jamaican politician of the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP). He was Jamaica's Minister of Housing, Environment and Water from September 2007 to January 2012 .

Life

Chang attended New Roads Primary School in Westmoreland before getting a place at Cornwall College at Montego Bay in St. James when he was 11 . After graduating from college in 1972, he studied medicine at the University of the West Indies . Since 1977 Dr. Chang worked as Medical Officer of Health in Trelawny Parish , in Hanover Parish since 1998 .

Chang is married and has two children.

politics

Chang was already active in the JLP in 1976 as a youth leader at the local level, later he became vice president of Young Jamaica, the youth organization of the JLP. Chang has held various party offices since then, he was temporarily Deputy Secretary General ( Deputy General Secretary ) and from 2003 to 2010 Deputy Party Chairman ( Deputy Leader ) for Area Council 4 (West Jamaica) of the JLP.

In the October 1980 general election, Chang was elected to the House of Representatives for the first time as the JLP's candidate for the Hanover Western constituency. In the elections in 1989, 1993, and 1997 he was defeated by his competitors from the People's National Party (PNP). Only in 2002 did he get back into parliament, he won the seat in the constituency of St. James North Western. During the legislature he was the opposition spokesman for housing policy and urban development .

When Chang was re-elected in the September 3, 2007 general election in St. James North Western and the JLP won the government majority, Chang was appointed to the government by Prime Minister Bruce Golding and appointed Minister of Water and Housing. He was sworn in on September 14, 2007. As part of a cabinet reshuffle at the end of June 2011, his ministry was restructured into the Ministry of Housing, Environment and Water with effect from July 1, 2011.

In the election on December 29, 2011, he was able to defend his parliamentary seat again, but the JLP lost the election, so that Chang resigned from the ministerial office. Since January 19, 2012 he has been the opposition spokesman for housing policy.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tufton is new JLP deputy leader ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Jamaica Observer November 15, 2010. Retrieved November 21, 2010.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jamaicaobserver.com
  2. ↑ New Ministers and Ministers of State to be sworn in today- June 29, 2011  ( 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 dated June 29, 2011. Retrieved June 30, 2011.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.opm.gov.jm  
  3. ↑ Holness names Shadow Cabinet , Jamaica Gleaner, January 19, 2012. Retrieved February 17, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Chang, Horace
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chang, Horace Anthony (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican politician (JLP)
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Westmoreland , Jamaica