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Senator
the Hon. G Anthony Hylton Minister of Foreign Affairs & Foreign Trade Senator the Honourable G Anthony Hylton is a Lawyer and Businessman who served as Member of Parliament from 1993–2002. He was appointed a Member of the Senate and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade on 31 March 2006. In addition to his Ministerial portfolio, Minister Hylton serves as Chairman of the Institute of Law and Economics, the People’s National Party Policy Commission and the Commercial Division of the Coffee Industry Board. Prior to his appointment as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Minister Hylton served as Ambassador and Special Envoy of the Most Honourable Prime Minister P J Patterson, with special responsibility for preparing an Energy Policy and a diversification plan for Jamaica’s energy mix with the introduction of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG). Minister Hylton has held the positions of Parliamentary Secretary, Minister of State and Minister of Foreign Trade in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (1993-2001), Minister of Mining and Energy (2001-2002) and Executive Director of Legal and Foreign Affairs in the Policy Review Unit in the Office of the Prime Minister (1990-1993). The Minister is regarded as a skilled Negotiator and International Trade Specialist, who emerged as a leading figure in negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO); the European Union/African, Caribbean and Pacific (EU/ACP) Cotonou Agreement; the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. He was awarded National Honours by the Government of Benin, for his work on the negotiation of the Cotonou Agreement. Minister Hylton has also been associated with several leading law firms in the United States of America: - Dickstein,
Shapiro, Morin – Washington DC (1988-1989) Minister Hylton was educated at: - University
of London, LLM (1985-1986) He is
an avid domino player and also enjoys listening to music, writing and
debating. |