Timothy Harris

This article is about the politician of St. Kitts and Nevis. For an Australian bishop, see Timothy Harris (Bishop) .

Timothy Harris (2015)

Timothy Sylvester Harris (born December 6, 1964 in Tabernacle ) is a politician from St. Kitts and Nevis and has been Prime Minister since February 18, 2015.

Harris grew up in the village of Tabernacle on St. Kitts . He graduated from the University of the West Indies , where he received a BA in Accounting from the Camp Hill campus in 1998 . In 1992, he earned a Master of Science degree with honors in Accounting from the UWI campus in St. Augustine . In 2001, Concordia University in Montréal awarded him a Ph.D. in administration .

Harris was first elected to the St. Kitts and Nevis Parliament in 1993 for the St. Kitts-Nevis Labor Party (SKLP). He defended his parliamentary mandate in the following elections in 1995, 2000, 2004 and 2010. In the 2015 election, he ran for the newly formed People's Labor Party (PLP) and won constituency No. 7 on St. Kitts.

Harris held various ministerial posts, including foreign minister from 2001 to 2008, then finance minister and until his dismissal from the cabinet in January 2013 agriculture minister. After leaving the cabinet, he founded the People's Labor Party (PLP), which together with the People's Action Movement (PAM) and the Concerned Citizens 'Movement (CCM) with Harris' as the top candidate under the name Team Unity Alliance in the 2015 general election started. Team Unity received seven of the eleven seats in parliament and Harris, who won the only mandate for the PLP, replaced Denzil Douglas, who had been in office for 20 years, as Prime Minister on February 25, 2015 . In the new cabinet, Harris also assumed the office of Treasury Secretary.

Web links

Commons : Timothy Harris  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• A Profile of Dr Timothy Sylvester Harris Prime Minister - St Kitts and Nevis. OECS Business Focus, July 31, 2015, accessed October 2, 2015 . 
• St. Kitts and Nevis. In: Country Information. Federal Foreign Office , March 2014, accessed on October 12, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Team Unity wins St Kitts and Nevis 2015 general election. (No longer available online.) In: Caribbean Elections Today. February 17, 2015, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on October 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
2. ^ List of Foreign Ministers of St Kitts and Nevis. In: rulers.org. Retrieved October 2, 2015 .  
3. ↑ August 2008. In: rulers.org. Retrieved October 2, 2015 .  
4. ^ PM Douglas Cans Minister Harris, Reshuffles Cabinet. (No longer available online.) In: St. Kitts & Nevis Observer. January 26, 2013, archived from the original on February 1, 2013 ; accessed on October 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister fires Senior Minister. (No longer available online.) In: Caribbean Elections Today. January 26, 2013, formerly in the original ; accessed on October 2, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.       
5. ^ New political party launched in St Kitts. (No longer available online.) In: Caribbean Elections Today. June 17, 2013, archived from the original on September 23, 2015 ; accessed on October 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
6. ↑ Dr. Timothy Harris Named Unity Leader. (No longer available online.) In: St. Kitts & Nevis Observer. September 27, 2013, archived from the original on April 29, 2015 ; accessed on October 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
7. ↑ Dr. Timothy Harris sworn in as St. Kitts-Nevis Prime Minister. (No longer available online.) In: St. Kitts & Nevis Observer. February 19, 2015, archived from the original on February 20, 2015 ; accessed on October 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   
8. ↑ New Unity Cabinet Portfolios Revealed. (No longer available online.) In: St. Kitts & Nevis Observer. February 27, 2015, archived from the original on July 3, 2015 ; accessed on October 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.