Fenton Ferguson

Fenton Rudyard Ferguson is a Jamaican politician with the People's National Party. He has served as Jamaica's Minister of labour and social security under Prime Minister Portia Simpson-Miller since 2012. Outside politics he is a dental surgeon by profession. Dr.Fenton ferguson was moved from his post to labour and social security following a comment he made..Fenton Ferguson is the MP for St.Thomas his opponent in 2016 is Mr. Delano Seiveright.

Ferguson was first elected to Parliament in 1993 from East St Thomas, defeating Pearnel Charles of the Jamaica Labour Party and ending the JLP's 45-year hold on the constituency. He was elected a vice-president of the People's National Party in 2006 along with Angela Brown-Burke, Derrick Kellier, and Peter Phillips, beating out Sharon Hay-Webster, Louis Moyston, and Kern Spencer. He faced Charles' daughter Patrece Charles-Freeman in the 2011 election in the same East St Thomas constituency, defeating her by 8,018 votes to 7,547.

Ferguson attended Ardenne High School in Kingston before moving to the United States to attend Howard University, where he earned a B.Sc. in chemistry in 1974.

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