Nicholas Brathwaite

Nicholas Brathwaite ( born July 8, 1925 on Carriacou ) was Prime Minister of Grenada from 1983 to 1984 and from 1990 until 1995.

Life and career

He was born in 1928 on the island of Carriacou, where he attended the Mount Pleasant Government School and then the Grenada Boys Secondary School. He studied at the Teacher's Training College in Trinidad and at the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. In the years 1945-1974 Brathwaite worked as a teacher, with the exception of the years 1951 to 1957 when he was working in a refinery in Curacao. He began as an elementary school teacher and then rose to become Principal of the primary school. Subsequently, he was a tutor at the Grenada Teacher 's College, and in 1968 director. From 1969 to 1974 he was Chief Education Officer and then served as Regional Director of the Commonwealth Youth Programme.

Public offices

After the invasion of the United States Brathwaite was appointed in 1983 by Governor-General Paul Scoon to head an interim government. After the 1984 elections Herbert Blaize Prime Minister and Brathwaite was the government served until 1986 as a consultant. He was elected Chairman of the National Democratic Congress in 1989. When acquired by the NDC parliamentary election of 1990, he became a deputy of Carriacou. On March 16, 1990, he became Prime Minister. He resigned on 1 June 1995, shortly before the general election, who lost his party.

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