Horace Chang

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

Life

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

Chang is married and the father of two children.

Policy

Chang was already active in the JLP in 1976 as Youth Leader at the local level and later became Vice President of Young Jamaica, the youth organization of the JLP. Chang had since held various party positions, he was temporarily Deputy Secretary General ( Deputy General Secretary ) and 2003-2010 Deputy Party Chairman ( Deputy Leader ) for the Area Council 4 (West Jamaica ) of the JLP.

In the parliamentary elections in October 1980 Chang was elected as a candidate of the JLP for the constituency of Western Hanover for the first time in the House of Representatives. In the elections of 1989, 1993, and in 1997 he was defeated each of its competitors in the People's National Party ( PNP). Only in the year 2002, he succeeded the collection returned to Parliament, he won the seat in the constituency of St. James Northwestern. It was during the term of the opposition spokesman on housing policy and urban development.

As in the parliamentary elections on 3 September 2007 in St. James Chang Northwestern was re-elected and the JLP won the government majority, Chang was appointed by Prime Minister Bruce Golding in the government and was appointed Minister of Water and Housing. His swearing-in ceremony was held on 14 September 2007. As part of a reshuffle end of June 2011, his ministry with effect from 1 July 2011 was reorganized to the Ministry for homes, environment and water.

In the election on 29 December 2011, he successfully defended his parliamentary seat again, but the JLP lost the election, so that Chang retired from the office of minister. January 19, 2012, he acts as an opposition spokesman on housing policy.