Oswald Skippings

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Oswald O'Neil Skippings (* 1953 on Grand Turk Island ) is a politician of the People's Democratic Movement (PDM) of the Turks and Caicos Islands , who was Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands in 1980 and again between 1988 and 1991 .

Life

Skippings completed a teaching degree at Mico Teachers College in Jamaica and then worked as a teacher. In addition, he was active as a pastor of the Firm Foundation Ministries . In the 1976 elections he was elected as the youngest member of the People's Democratic Movement (PDM) member of Parliament (House of Assembly) . Immediately after the election he was appointed by the first Chief Minister James Alexander George Smith "Jags" McCartney in August 1976 to the first government of this British overseas territory located in the Caribbean . After Chief Minister McCartney was killed in a plane crash over New Jersey on May 9, 1980 , Skippings took over the post of Chief Minister himself on June 19, 1980. He held this office until November 1980 and then had to cede it to Norman Saunders of the Progressive National Party (PNP) after the PDM was defeated . Despite the electoral defeat, he remained leader of the PDM and held this position until 1984, when Clement Howell became the new party leader. After Howell's sudden death in 1987, however, he was again chairman of the PDM.

After the PDM had won eleven of the 13 seats in parliament like a landslide in the elections of March 3, 1988, Skippings became Chief Minister of the Turks and Caicos Islands for the second time on March 3, 1988 and as such initiated several social and constitutional changes. At the same time, he took over the offices of Minister for Tourism, Communication and Transport in his cabinet. In April 1991, however, his PDM lost the general election, whereupon Washington Misick of the PNP became the new chief minister.

In July 2012, Skippings was again opposition leader, succeeding Derek Taylor . In the elections that followed, the PDM suffered a narrow defeat by the PNP and received seven of the 15 seats in the House of Assembly . In November 2016, today's Prime Minister Sharlene Cartwright-Robinson followed him as opposition leader.

Skippings is married and has five children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Turks and Caicos Islands: Governors, Chief Ministers and Prime Ministers
  2. ↑ Turks and Caicos Islands: Governors, Chief Ministers and Prime Ministers
personal data
SURNAME Skippings, Oswald
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Skippings, Oswald O'Neil (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turks and Caicos Islands politicians
DATE OF BIRTH 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Grand Turk Island