Branford Taitt

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Sir Branford Taitt Mayhew KA (* 15. May 1938 , † 15. February 2013 ) was a politician from Barbados from the Democratic Labor Party (DLP).

Life

Taitt was appointed to a government by Prime Minister Errol Walton Barrow as Minister of Trade, Industry and Commerce for the first time after the Democratic Labor Party's renewed election victory in the 1971 House of Assembly elections and held this position until on the defeat of the DLP by the Barbados Labor Party (BLP) and the end of Barrow's tenure on September 8, 1976.

After Barrow was again Prime Minister after the victory of the DLP in the elections for the House of Assembly on May 29, 1986, this appointed him Minister of Tourism and Industry (Minister of Tourism and Industry) in his cabinet. However, Barrow did not appoint him or Richie Haynes as deputy prime minister, but the previous deputy opposition leader (Deputy Leader of Opposition) Lloyd Erskine Sandiford .

After Sandiford became the new Prime Minister after Barrow's death, the latter appointed him Minister of Health on June 2, 1987 . Taitt held this position until 1993, before he was appointed Foreign Minister by Sandiford in 1993 as part of a new cabinet reshuffle, succeeding Maurice King . He held the post of Foreign Minister until his defeat in the House of Assembly elections and the end of Sandiford's term on September 7, 1994.

For his longstanding political services, Taitt was knighted in 2010 to the Knight of St Andrew of the Order of Barbados and has since been named "Sir".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Foreign Ministers (rulers.org)
  2. ↑ Knights and Dames: SW-WAL at Leigh Rayment's Peerage
personal data
SURNAME Taitt, Branford
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Taitt, Sir Branford Mayhew (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Barbadian politician
DATE OF BIRTH May 15, 1938
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2013