Lloyd Erskine Sandiford

Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford ( born March 24, 1937 in Barbados) is a politician from Barbados.

Biography

Sandiford, a member of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP ), 1966 Personal Assistant to Prime Minister, Errol Walton Barrow.

His own political career began in 1967 when he was appointed a senator. In the same year he was appointed as Minister Barrow of Education and Community Development to the Cabinet. In a cabinet reshuffle, he was then in 1975 Minister of Health and Welfare. When the DLP government majority against the Barbados Labour Party ( BLP ) under John Michael G. Adams lost in the general election, he could defend his seat by 12 votes only just ahead.

In the following years he was the opposition from 1976 to 1986 Barrows deputy as leader of the opposition ( Deputy Leader of Opposition). In the parliamentary elections of 1981, he was able to extend the vote lead in his constituency again and was again a member of the meeting house ( House of Assembly ) elected.

In 1983 there were differences between him and Barrow: Sandiford said as deputy opposition leader during the absence of the Barrows government under Adams 's support for the U.S. invasion of Grenada, which was vehemently rejected by Barrow.

After the great electoral success of the DLP in the general elections of May 1986, he was appointed by Prime Minister Barrow on 29 May 1986 as Deputy Prime Minister and thus preferred over other contenders such as Branford Taitt and Richie Haynes.

The sudden death of Errol Barrow on 1 June 1987 meant that he virtue of his office, his successor as prime minister was the following day. In September 1987 Sandifords management style was criticized by Haynes, who resigned from his post as Minister of Finance to have after he accused the Prime Minister not him for appointment of Chief Financial Officer and in other matters consulted. Sandiford took out even the finance minister next to the date of Barrow in 1986 created and directed the Ministry of Economic Affairs. He assured the continuation of politics Barrows, but his style of government was essentially technocratic oriented than its predecessor. Nevertheless, he managed to lead the DLP to victory in the parliamentary elections of 1991.

In July 1994, he resigned as chairman of the DLP and was replaced by David Thompson. However, when his party lost the elections in September 1994, was Owen Arthur, chairman of the BLP, on September 7, 1994 New prime minister.

For his political achievements, he was elevated as a Knight in 2000 to the peerage and was allowed henceforth carry the suffix sir.