Rudyard Spencer

Rudyard Conrad Spencer ( born February 3, 1944 in Grange Hill, Westmoreland ) is a Jamaican politician of the Jamaica Labour Party ( JLP ). He was from September 2007 to January 2012 Minister of Health (Minister of Health ) of Jamaica.

Life

Spencer attended the Medgars College and studied Industrial Relations at Cornell University in the United States.

Spencer is president of the Bustamante Industrial Trade Union ( BITU ). Previously, he has held various other positions in the union, so he was also Vice President, Senior Negotiating Officer and Specialist BITU to represent the interests of workers in the financial sector. He was also director of the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions. As a member of the Caribbean Congress of Labour Spencer has been active at the international level for the trade union movement. He is a former Chairman of the United BITU / JLP Committee.

In the Jamaica Labour Party Deputy Chairman Spencer was at times and exercised more high party offices.

In 1993 Spencer was appointed Senator from 1995 to 1997 he was leader of the opposition in the Senate. In the parliamentary election in 2002, he was elected as a candidate of the Jamaica Labour Party for the constituency of South East Clarendon House of Representatives. In the election on 3 September 2007, he won his constituency with greater advantage than before and was able to defend his parliamentary seat. The JLP won the majority in this election and formed the new government. Spencer was appointed by Prime Minister Bruce Golding to the Minister of Health and sworn in on September 14. He resigned on January 6, 2012 from the office of minister after the JLP was defeated in the election on 29 December 2011, the PNP.

In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Distinction.