Billie Miller
Dame Billie Antoinette Miller ( born January 8, 1944 in Barbados ) is a politician from Barbados.
Life
Billie Miller is the daughter of longtime deputies Frederick Edward Miller, who. 1956-1961 Minister of Health and Social Services of Barbados, which was last 1958-1962 a province of West Indies Federation
She even started her political career in 1976 when she was elected in a by-election ( By-election ) as a candidate of the Barbados Labour Party ( BLP ) for the constituency of City of Bridgetown for the members of the meeting house ( House of Assembly ). A few months later she was able to defend her parliamentary mandate successfully in the general election (General Elections ) and then was appointed on 7 September 1976 on the Minister for Health and National Insurance in the Cabinet of Prime Minister John Michael G. Adams and was the first female minister of Barbados.
After her re-election of Deputies in 1981, she was appointed to the new government of Adams to the education minister and took over after his death on 11 March 1985 under his successor Harold Bernard St. John, the office of the Minister of Culture. When the BLP in the parliamentary elections in May 1986, a sensitive election defeat by the Democratic Labour Party (DLP ) suffered, in which she herself lost her parliamentary seat, she was appointed Senator. In the Senate, she was in the following years the leader of the opposition ( Leader of Opposition).
In the elections of 1991, she was re-elected as a representative of the constituency of City of Bridgetown for the members of the meeting house, where he was most recently 1993-1994 as a representative of Owen Arthur Deputy opposition leader.
As under Owen Arthur 1994, the BLP won the election and Arthur 's new prime minister was, he called Billie Millie on 7 September 1994 as Deputy Prime Minister ( Deputy Prime Minister ) and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and International Economic in, is keen cabinet and served as Deputy Prime Minister at the same time the leader of the government majority in the Assembly House ( Leader of the House).
In a cabinet reshuffle, she gave in June 1995 from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and International Economic and became instead Minister of Tourism and International Transport. Among other offices, she was also chairman of the Executive Committee of the Parliamentary Association of the Commonwealth, Chairman of the Group for the Women's Development of the Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) and President ( for the West ) of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
As part of a new government reshuffle it was replaced in May 2003 as Deputy Prime Minister and some time later as Dame of St. Andrew ( Barbados) raised to the peerage.
After the electoral defeat of the BLP they resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Tourism and International Transport from the government in January 2008.