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Fenton Ferguson
Jamaican politian and dental surgeon

Fenton Ferguson

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Jamaican politian and dental surgeon
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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 East St.Thomas his opponent in 2016 is Mr. Delano Seiveright. His infamous quote was that the babies who have died as a result of the klebsiella bacteria outbreak in 2015 at Victoria Jubilee Hospital are “not babies in the real sense”during his tenure as Minister of Health when many premature babies died from that bacteria.(3)

Career

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.

Personal life

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. His sister, Dr. Millicent A. Comrie, specializes in obstetrics and gynecology at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY.

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