Martin Joseph (c. 1950 – 5 January 2015) was a

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politician. He served as a

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in the

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for St. Ann's East from 1995 to 2002, and then was appointed as a Government Senator in the

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Biography

Joseph received an associates' degree in marine sciences from the

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in the United States. He then went on to receive a bachelor of arts in geography and regional science with a minor in economics from

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and a masters' of science in economics from the

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. He served as the chairman of the Board of the

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and as a director of the National Flour Mills Company from 1992 to 1995. He worked as an associate faculty member at Henley's Management College in the

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, and as a lecturer in strategic management at the

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. He was a member of the

from 1995 to 2002, representing the

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for the constituency of St. Ann's East. He was the Minister of Public Utilities and the Environment from 5 April 2002 until 9 October 2002. Following the 2002 general election, he was appointed as a

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. He was Minister of Housing from 10 October 2002 to 9 November 2003, and Minister of National Security from 10 November 2003 to 25 May 2010. He served as a member of the Human Resource Management Association, the

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, and the

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in the United States. Joseph drowned in Grange Bay of

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on 5 January 2015. He was 65.

References

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