Dorothy Lightbourne is a former politician who served as

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and the Attorney General of Jamaica from September 2007 to July 2011. She also served as the Leader of Government Business or Majority Leader of the Senate from September 2007 to July 2011. She was born in Aeolus Valley, St Thomas, and raised as an

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. She attended

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and

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. She is a member of the

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. She was a Senator in 1984–1989 and was Deputy President of the Senate Senator Lightbourne has come under many criticisms in light of her handling of the

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/ Christopher 'Dudus' Coke extradition scandal. She has also come under a lot of public criticism for allegedly lying in the Commission of Enquiry as it relates to the Mannat/Dudus scandal and her rocky relationship with

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K. D. Knight She was removed by Prime Minister

Bruce Golding Orette Bruce Golding (born 5 December 1947) is a former Jamaican politician who served as eighth Prime Minister of Jamaica from 11 September 2007 to 23 October 2011. He is a member of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), which he led from 2005 to ...

and replaced by

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as Minister of Justice and by Ransford Braham as Attorney General. Following her dismissal; she has withdrawn from public life and, politically, the roles of ''Minister of Justice'' and ''Attorney General'' – normally held by the same person – were split. She is a Commander of the

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(CD) and a member of the

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(KC).

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