Errol Barrow
Errol Walton Barrow ( born January 21, 1920 in St. Lucy, Barbados, † June 1, 1987 in Bridgetown, Barbados) was a politician from Barbados.
Life
After schooling he joined in 1940 into the Royal Air Force ( RAF) and flew more than 50 missions over Western Europe during the Second World War. In 1947 he retired from active military service and returned to his home country.
His political career began in 1951 when he was elected as a candidate founded by Herbert Grantley Adams Barbados Labour Party ( BLP ) for the first time a member of the meeting house ( House of Assembly ). After he was disappointed by the conservative policies of the DLP, he was one of the founders in 1955 of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP ), which he chaired from 1958 until 1976.
On December 8, 1961, he became Premier of Barbados, which was until 1962 the province of West Indies Federation. As Premier, he led Barbados on 30 November 1966 in the sovereignty of the United Kingdom and became the first prime minister until September 7, 1976. As prime minister, he pursued a policy of diversity in agriculture, tourism and the excitation of an integration of the races in the society. As an energetic advocate of the integration of Barbados in the Caribbean region, he has great influence on the formation of the Caribbean Free Trade Association ( CARIFTA ), from 1973, the Caribbean Community (CARICOM ) was established. However, as a result of the deterioration of the economic situation after the oil crisis in the early 1970s he lost popularity. Moreover, his experiments led to the appointment of judges to influence a loss of confidence in the government. This eventually led to his DLP suffered a crushing defeat in the elections of 1976, the BLP won 17 of 24 parliamentary seats. On 7 September 1976 him John Michael G. Adams succeeded as prime minister.
Barrow was then opposition leader and significant opponent of U.S. involvement in Caribbean affairs and condemned in particular the U.S. invasion of Grenada in 1983.
In 1986, however, Barrow won the elections to the meeting house noticeably with the DLP again and was the successor of Harold Bernard St. John on 29 May 1986 Prime Minister himself again. After his election he tried to disputes within the CARICOM, especially with Trinidad and Tobago to resolve. Along with James Fitz -Allen Mitchell, Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1984-2000, he was the advent of the Regional Security System and of the necessary formal contracts against hostile. After he died on 1 June 1987 in the Official, one day Lloyd Erskine Sandiford followed him later as Prime Minister.
His older sister, Dame Nita Barrow, was 1990-1995 Governor General of Barbados.