The Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves

Prime Minister, St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Bio Current as of July 1, 2022

1. Date and Place of Birth:

August 8, 1946, at Colonarie, St. Vincent and the Grenadines; son of a Farmer (Alban Gonsalves) and Theresa Francis (Small Businessman)

Family:

Wife (Eloise neé Harris of Trinidad and Tobago);Three sons (Camillo, Adam, storm) and two daughters (Isis and Soleil)

1. Formal Education:

Colonarie Primary School; St. Vincent Boys’ Grammar School; University of the West Indies; Manchester University (UK); Makerere University (Uganda); Gray’s Inn (UK).

Formal Qualifications:

BSc (Econ.); MSc (Govt.); PhD (Govt.); Degree of Utter Barrister

Employment:

1. Lecturer at the University of the West Indies; Visiting Professor, Queen’s College, City University of New York; Private Practice as a Barrister-at-Law and Solicitor in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and the Caribbean.

1. Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (March 2001 to present time)

1. Political Involvement

Political Leader of the Unity Labour Party of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (December 1998 to present time);

Member of Parliament (1994 to present time);

Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (March 2001 to present time).

1. Publications:

These include the following books:

1. History and the Future:  A Caribbean Perspective (1994), 
2. The Politics of Our Caribbean Civilisation – Essays and Speeches (2001);
3. The Making of the Comrade: The Political Journey of Ralph Gonsalves (2010); 
4. Diary of a Prime Minister: Ten Days Among Benedictine Monks (2010); 
5. The Case for Caribbean Reparatory Justice (2014);
6. Our Caribbean and Global Insecurity (2017); 
7. The Making of a National Hero: Law and Practice in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (2018); 
8. The Political Economy of the Labour Movement in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (2019); 
9. The “Rodney Affair” in Jamaica and Its Consequences (2019)
10. The Trial of George Mc Intosh and the 1935 Uprising in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (2020).
11. The Atomised Individual, The Social Individual and The Covid Vaccine (Forthcoming, December 2021);
12. The Idea of Barbados (Forthcoming, December 2021).