Job Dudley Tasinga, CSI (born July 18, 1951) is a member of the
National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
The National Parliament of Solomon Islands has 50 members, elected for a four-year term in Constituencies in Solomon Islands, 50 single-seat constituencies.
It is presided by a Speaker of the National Parliament of Solomon Islands, Speaker, cu ...
. He lives on
New Georgia Island
New Georgia, with an area of , is the largest of the islands in Western Province, Solomon Islands, and the 200th-largest island in the world.
Geography
New Georgia island is located in the New Georgia Group, an archipelago including most of ...
, in the
Western Province
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* Western Province, Cameroon
*Western Province, Rwanda
*Western Province (Kenya)
*Western Province (Papua New Guinea)
*Western Province (Solomon Islands)
*Western Province, Sri Lanka
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, and was first elected in 1984.
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1992 to 1993.
On 6 December 2011, he was elected unopposed to the position of deputy Speaker of Parliament, following
Namson Tran
Namson Tran (born 3 December 1968 in Vietnam) is a Solomon Islands businessman and politician.
Born in Vietnam, Tran moved first to Vanuatu then to Solomon Islands, where he married a Solomon Islander and became a naturalised citizen.
He worked ...
's resignation from that position. (The
Speaker
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Society and politics
* Speaker (politics), the presiding officer in a legislative assembly
* Public speaker, one who gives a speech or lecture
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** I ...
was
Allan Kemakeza.)
He is the father of MP
Silas Tausinga.
"Youngest minister prepares for challenge"
, ''Solomon Star'', 8 March 2012
References
Member page at Parliament website
1951 births
Living people
Members of the National Parliament of the Solomon Islands
People from the Western Province (Solomon Islands)
Environment ministers of the Solomon Islands
Education ministers of the Solomon Islands
Deputy Prime Ministers of the Solomon Islands
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