Harold Bernard St. John
Sir Harold Bernard St. John ( born August 16, 1931 † 29 February 2004 in Bridgetown ) was a politician from Barbados.
Biography
St. John, who was since 1959 a member of the Barbados Labour Party ( BLP ), his political career began in 1964 when he was appointed senator. After the sovereignty from the United Kingdom on 30 November 1966 he was elected a deputy of the meeting house ( House of Assembly ). When he lost this mandate again in 1971 because of the loss of votes BLP, he was re-appointed for five years as senator.
After the electoral victory of the BLP in 1976 and his re- election to the meeting house, he was appointed by Prime Minister John G. Michael Adams on September 7, 1976 Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade and Tourism in the Cabinet.
As Adams on March 11, 1985, he was his successor by virtue of office. Immediately afterwards he had to deal with it a solution to the extensive problems of trade and payments within the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM) to find that hit the country's economy sustainable. He quickly established himself as a forthright and spokesman for the position of his government. Introducing its threat of September 1985 reprisals against Trinidad and Tobago, if it does not carry out the agreements of Nassau for International Trade, was the result of subsequent apparently constructive talks with the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, George Michael Chambers, at the Summit of Heads of Government of the Commonwealth in October 1985 in Nassau. After the death of Adam, he was also able to quickly establish itself as the Chairman of the BLP, however there were internal party disputes that he cleaned out by the appointment of a new Deputy Prime Minister. After the electoral defeat of the BLP was succeeded on 29 May 1986 Errol Walton Barrow of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP ) as the new prime minister.
The party chairmanship in 1994 he handed over to Owen Arthur, the BLP in the same year led to the electoral victory and became prime minister. On 7 September 1994 he was appointed Deputy Prime Minister Arthur. For his services he was also raised as a Knight in the peerage in November 1994 and was allowed to carry the additional name sir. In 1999 he resigned from the Cabinet and then gave 2003 also mandate in the House of Assembly from.