Former People’s National Party Vice President Dr Paul Robertson has died.

Our Today understands he passed away tonight at the St Ann’s Bay Hospital.

Robertson, who entered representational politics in 1993 when he beat Kingsley Sangster by a landslide in the St Catherine South East seat, is also a former senator who rose to the rank of vice president of the PNP in 2003.

As a member of the Cabinet, Robertson served as minister of industry and investment, minister of foreign affairs, and minister of development.

He was also a former university lecturer, as well as deputy general secretary and general secretary of the PNP.

He was famous among his colleagues and rivals alike for regularly promising major projects that would advance the nation were “in the pipeline”.

He left representational politics shortly before the 2007 general election, for which he was named campaign director, working alongside Maxine Henry Wilson, and was replaced by Colin Fagan in the St Catherine South East constituency.