1976: Elected MP for North Clarendon in 1976 after beating the People's National Party's Robert Saunds by 14 votes.

1980: Beat Kingsley Robertson to retain the seat as the Jamaica Labour Party won the election by a 51-seat landslide.

1989: Was beaten by Horace Dalley in an election the PNP won.

July 27, 1989: Portia Simpson Miller, the minister of labour, welfare and sport, tells Parliament that the police are investigating Smith, a former labour minister, and Probyn Aitken, former permanent secretary, for irregularities unearthed in an audit done by the Auditor General's Department.

February 13, 1990: The 61-year-old Smith is charged with receiving US$70,000 (J$490,000) which was unlawfully obtained, and conspiracy to defraud. He is offered $100,000 bail.

July 19, 1990: RM Donald McIntosh finds Smith guilty and sentences him to five years in prison.

July 24, 1990: Smith's attorneys apply for bail on his behalf but Ira Rowe, president of the Court of Appeal, denies the application. He remains locked up at the St Catherine District Prison.

October 8, 1990: Smith has his five-year prison term reduced to three by the Court of Appeal. However, the court dismisses his appeal against his convictions for defrauding the farm workers' programme.

October 26, 1990: Smith appeals to the Privy Council.

July 13, 1991: President of the Senate, Howard Cooke, announces that Smith has resigned as a member of the Senate. He was close to exhausting the aggregate 330 days' absence afforded him under the Constitution.

July 18, 1992: Smith leaves prison and enters the political wilderness, never to return.