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  Nicholson, Arnold J.
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  2013-01-01  
 
NameArnold J. Nicholson
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Born February 28, 1942 (83 years)
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Jan 17, 2016 12:09am
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InfoSenator Arnold Joseph Nicholson is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade.

Mr. Nicholson began his political career as the Member of Parliament for West Central St. Andrew from 1989 to 1997. He also served as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Culture from 1992 to 1995.

Between January and September 1995, he was Minister of State in the Ministry of Legal Affairs and became Attorney General in September of that year. He was appointed to the Senate in January 1998 and Minister of Justice on November 1, 2001.

Senator Nicholson, an attorney-at-law, was called to the Bar in 1972 and practised law in Jamaica and Grenada between 1972 and 1992. Prior to his law career, he worked in banking from 1964 to 1968.

He was educated at Rock River Elementary, Excelsior High School, the University College of the West Indies, the Middle Temple Inn of Court in London and the University of London.

Senator Nicholson was born in Rock River, Clarendon on February 28, 1942 to the late Arnold A. Nicholson, a public health inspector and his wife Bernice.

He is a member of the Baptist faith and enjoys reading, music, cricket and dancing.

He is married to Yvonne and has two sons.

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