Denzil Douglas
| The Right Honourable Denzil Llewellyn Douglas |
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| Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 6 July 1995 |
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| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Cuthbert Sebastian |
| Preceded by | Kennedy Simmonds |
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| Born | 14 January 1953 Saint Paul Capesterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis |
| Political party | SKNLP |
Denzil Llewellyn Douglas (born 14 January 1953) has been Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis since July 1995. He leads the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party. He is the longest serving Prime Minister Saint Kitts and Nevis has ever had and, as of 2012, the longest serving head of State or Government in America.
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[edit] Biography
[edit] Early life and pre-political career
Born on January 14, 1953,[1] in the village of St. Pauls, Douglas studied medicine as a young man. He obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in 1977 and a Degree in Medicine in 1984 from the University of the West Indies.[2] In 1986 he established a private medical practice as a family physician and served as President of the St. Kitts-Nevis Medical Association in the late 1980s.[1]
[edit] Political life
Douglas was elected M.P. for St. Christopher (No.6) ward (Newton Ground, St. Paul's, Dieppe Bay, Saddlers, and Harris) in the National Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis in 1989 and appointed Leader of the Opposition. That year he was also elected leader of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party.
He restructured the party in preparation for its 1995 electoral victory. He was appointed Prime Minister of the Federation in 1995, re-appointed Prime Minister in March 2000 and again in October 2004 after the Labour Party won a third term with seven of the eight seats on St. Kitts. The Labour Party won its fourth consecutive term in office on January 25, 2010 winning six of the eight seats on St Kitts in the eleven-member National Assembly.
In 2011 he was appointed a Privy Counsellor which bestowed him the title of "Right Honourable."[3][4]
[edit] References
- ^ a b East, Roger; Richard Thomas (2003). "Denzil Douglas" (Google book search). Profiles of people in power: the world's government leaders (1st ed.). London: Europa. pp. 439–440. ISBN 978-1-85743-126-1. LCCN 2004297732. OCLC 52634735. http://books.google.com/books?id=Mz-fXRsedPMC&pg=PA439&dq=%22Denzil+Douglas+became+prime+minister%22#v=onepage&q=%22Denzil%20Douglas%20became%20prime%20minister%22&f=false. Retrieved August 12, 2009.
- ^ "Denzil Douglas Biography - Began Political Career Early, Experienced Troubled Political Times, Won a Landslide Victory, Won a Third Term". 2009. http://biography.jrank.org/pages/2800/Douglas-Denzil.html. Retrieved August 12, 2009.
- ^ "Prime Minister Douglas appointed to Her Majesty’s Privy Council" (in English) Office of the Prime Minister Saint Kitts and Nevis November 18, 2011 http://www.cuopm.com/newsitem_new.asp?articlenumber=2528&post200803=true. Retrieved November 20, 2011
- ^ "Privy Council Members" Judicial Committee of the Privy Council 1995 http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/Page76.asp#a. Retrieved 21 June 2010
