Oswald Gaskell Harding was born on 3 November 1935 and is a Jamaican former Labour Party politician, and the longest-serving senator in the nation's history.
13 Facts About Oswald Harding
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Oswald Harding lost the election, 8,710 to 5,929, a difference of 2,781 votes, and the People's National Party won the election overall.
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Oswald Harding held the position until 1984, when he became Leader of Government Business in the Senate, and was made a Minister without portfolio in the Foreign Affairs Ministry.
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Oswald Harding served in the senate continuously from 1977 until 2002, when he asked not to be re-appointed after the 2002 general election.
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Oswald Harding attempted to win a seat in the House of Representatives twice during his tenure as a senator.
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Oswald Harding returned to the senate, and to the position of President of the Senate, becoming the first person to serve in that role over two non-contiguous periods.
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Immediately prior to the 2011 general election being called, Oswald Harding announced that he would be retiring from politics.
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In October 2000, Oswald Harding urged the government to ratify the United Nations Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which aims at abolishing the death penalty.
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When Bruce Golding became Prime Minister of Jamaica in 2007, Oswald Harding again urged the government to ratify the UN Protocol.
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Oswald Harding proposed in 2002 that a body be created to regulate commercial activities undertaken by churches.
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Oswald Harding noted that there was no system to protect churchgoers when a church's leadership acted against the interests of its members.
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Oswald Harding stressed that such an organisation would not be involved in religious decisions, only businesses and property that churches operate commercially.
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In 2004, Oswald Harding delivered a speech in which he said that it was not the government's place to criminalise homosexual relations or prostitution.