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Mia Amor Mottley, SC, MP [2] (born 1 October 1965) is a Barbadian politician and attorney who has served as the eighth prime minister of Barbados since 2018 and as Leader of the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) since 2008. Mottley is the first woman to hold either position.
Mottley was born into a family of politicians in Barbados in 1953. Her grandfather, Ernest Mottley, was the first mayor of Bridgetown, [1] while her cousin, Mia Mottley, was elected Prime Minister of Barbados in 2018. She was raised in Nigeria and England. After serving 15 months in prison for possession of LSD, Mottley embarked on an acting ...
Mason taking oath as the first president of Barbados, 2021. On 12 October 2021, Mason was nominated by Prime Minister Mia Mottley and Opposition Leader Joseph Atherley to become the first President of Barbados. [18] On 20 October she was elected by both houses without opposition, although no national vote amongst the people was ever held. [19]
Known for her powerful speeches, Mottley’s landmark Bridgetown Initiative calls for serious change to debt repayments for developing nations, who suffer the most after devastation caused by the ...
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley used a speech in London on Wednesday to call for a global conversation on reparations for countries that saw their people enslaved, sometimes for centuries ...
Kerrie Symmonds (born 1 June 1966 in Saint James, Barbados [citation needed]) is a Barbadian lawyer, politician and the cabinet minister in the government of Mia Mottley. [1] He has served as the minister of foreign affairs and foreign trade since 2022, and was previously minister of energy and business development. [2]
The BLP has been the governing party of Barbados since 2018. The current Party Leader is Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, SC,MP while the Chairman is Reginald Farley, FB and General-Secretary is Dr. Jerome Walcott, FB, FRCS. Santia Bradshaw, MP is Deputy Prime Minister and Leader of Government Business in The House of Assembly, The Parliament ...
The Honourable Mia Mottley, SC, MP (Prime Minister) Dr. the Honourable William Duguid, JP, MP (Senior Minister in the Prime Minister's Office for Infrastructural Projects and Town Planning Matters) Senator The Honourable Shantal Munro-Knight, PhD (Minister in the Prime Minister's Office responsible for the Sustainable Development Goals ...