Lloyd Erskine Sandiford

Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford (born March 24, 1937 in Barbados ) is a politician from Barbados.

biography

Sandiford, a member of the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) , became personal assistant to Prime Minister Errol Walton Barrow in 1966 .

He began his own political career in 1967 when he was appointed senator . In the same year Barrow appointed him to the cabinet as Minister for Education and Community Development. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he became Minister of Health and Welfare in 1975. When the DLP lost the government majority in the parliamentary elections to the Barbados Labor Party (BLP) under John Michael G. Adams , he too was only able to defend his mandate by just 12 votes.

In the following years of the opposition he was Barrow's deputy from 1976 to 1986 as Deputy Leader of Opposition. In the parliamentary elections of 1981 he was able to expand the vote lead in his constituency again and was re-elected as a member of the House of Assembly .

In 1983 there were differences between him and Barrow: Sandiford, as deputy opposition leader during Barrow's absence, promised the Adams government support for the US invasion of Grenada , which Barrow vehemently rejected.

After the great success of the DLP in the general elections of May 1986, he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister by Prime Minister Barrow on May 29, 1986 and thereby preferred other candidates such as Branford Taitt and Richie Haynes .

The sudden death of Errol Barrow on June 1, 1987 led to his successor as Prime Minister the following day by virtue of his office. In September 1987, Sandiford's leadership style was criticized by Haynes, who stepped down as Treasury Secretary after accusing the Prime Minister of not having consulted him on appointments of senior finance officials and other matters. Sandiford then took over the office of finance minister in addition to the Ministry of Economic Affairs, which had been created and directed by Barrow in 1986. He assured a continuation of Barrow's policy, but his style of government was much more technocratic than that of his predecessor. Nevertheless, he managed to lead the DLP to victory in the 1991 parliamentary elections.

In July 1994 he resigned as chairman of the DLP and was replaced by David Thompson . However, when his party lost the election in September 1994, Owen Arthur , the chairman of the BLP, became the new Prime Minister on September 7, 1994.

For his political merits, he was raised to the personal nobility as Knight of St Andrew of the Order of Barbados in 2000 and was henceforth allowed to use the suffix Sir .

Web links

• Lloyd Erskine Sandiford in nndb (English)
• rulers.org