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Leader of the Opposition
Member of Parliament (PLP)
Farm Road & Centreville
New Providence
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Parliament Square
P O Box n 3003
Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas
| 242 - 322-2041-2 |
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The Hon. Perry Gladstone Christie was sworn in as the third Prime Minister of The Bahamas on May 3, 2002, following his Progressive Liberal Party’s triumph over the Free National Movement in a General Election held on May 2, 2002. The PLP won 29 of the forty (40) seats in the House of Assembly, ending ten years of Government under the FNM, led by the Rt. Hon. Hubert A. Ingraham. The FNM won seven (7) seats and Independents, four (4) seats.
Mr. Christie has spent some thirty years in front line politics and at the time when he assumed the office of Prime Minister he had been the Leader of the Opposition for a little under five years, having assumed the mantle of leadership of the Progressive Liberal party from the late Sir Lynden Pindling in 1997.
Mr. Christie formally entered politics when he was appointed to the Senate in 1975 as a Progressive Liberal Senator, and at the same time served in his first major political office as Chairman of the Gaming Board.
Mr. Christie was first elected to the House of Assembly for the Centreville Constituency in 1977. He was re-elected in 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, and in 2002, for the Farm Road Constituency.
He served in the PLP Government as Minister of Health and National Insurance from 1977 to 1982, Minister of Tourism from 1982 to 1984, and Minister of Agriculture, Trade and Industry from 1990 to 1992. He was Co-Deputy Leader of the PLP from 1992 to 1997, and Leader since 1997.
Born in Nassau, Bahamas on August 21, 1944, Mr. Christie is the eldest child of the late Gladstone and Naomi (nee Allen) Christie. His father was a taxi driver and his mother a nurse.
Mr. Christie was educated at Eastern Senior School, Nassau; University Tutorial College London, and obtained his LLB degree from Birmingham University, United Kingdom. He was called successively to the Bar of the Inner Temple, London, and was admitted to The Bahamas Bar in 1970. A little known side of Mr. Christie was that while a student, he carved out a name for himself, both locally and throughout the Caribbean as a championship long jumper and he holds the distinction of being one of the first Bahamians to compete in this sport in the international arena. What is also not known about Mr. Christie is that while at Birmingham University he was also a championship debater and won several prizes for his debating skills.
He is married to the former Bernadette Hanna, an attorney and chartered accountant and a trust executive, and is the father of three children. Mr. Christie resides at Cable Beach, Nassau, New Providence.
Mr. Christie who is a charismatic speaker has characterized his Party and Government as “a PLP that will not only build new hospitals, schools, bridges and roads, but a PLP that will build up patriotism, pride optimism and hope”. These values, he said, must be brought to full flowering; otherwise, we labour in vain.”
Speeches:
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