Nicholas Brathwaite

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Nicholas Brathwaite (born July 8, 1925 in Carriacou ; † October 28, 2016 in St. George’s ) was Prime Minister of Grenada from 1983 to 1984 and from 1990 to 1995.

Life and work

He was born in 1925 on the island of Carriacou and attended the Mount Pleasant Government School and then the Grenada Boys Secondary School. He studied at the Teacher's Training College in Trinidad and at the University of the West Indies in Mona in Jamaica . Brathwaite taught between 1945 and 1974, with the exception of 1951 to 1957 when he worked in a refinery in Curacao . He started as a primary school teacher and then rose to become the principal of the primary school. He then became a tutor at Grenada Teacher's College and in 1968 director. From 1969 to 1974 he was Chief Education Officer and then headed the Commonwealth Youth Program as Regional Director.

Public offices

After the invasion of the United States , Brathwaite was appointed head of an interim government by Governor General Paul Scoon in 1983. After the 1984 elections, Herbert Blaize became Prime Minister and Brathwaite served as an advisor to the government until 1986. In 1989 he was elected chairman of the National Democratic Congress . In the parliamentary election won by the NDC in 1990, he became a Member of Parliament for Carriacou. On March 16, 1990, he became Prime Minister. He resigned on June 1, 1995, shortly before the general election, which his party lost.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Former Grenadian PM Nicholas Brathwaite this . The Jamaica Observer, October 29, 2016, accessed October 30, 2016.