The Hon. Ralph E. Gonsalves
Prime Minister, St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Bio Current as of July 1, 2022
- 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)
- 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:
- 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.
- Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (March 2001 to present time)
- 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).
- Publications:
These include the following books:
- History and the Future: A Caribbean Perspective (1994),
- The Politics of Our Caribbean Civilisation – Essays and Speeches (2001);
- The Making of the Comrade: The Political Journey of Ralph Gonsalves (2010);
- Diary of a Prime Minister: Ten Days Among Benedictine Monks (2010);
- The Case for Caribbean Reparatory Justice (2014);
- Our Caribbean and Global Insecurity (2017);
- The Making of a National Hero: Law and Practice in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (2018);
- The Political Economy of the Labour Movement in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (2019);
- The “Rodney Affair” in Jamaica and Its Consequences (2019)
- The Trial of George Mc Intosh and the 1935 Uprising in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (2020).
- The Atomised Individual, The Social Individual and The Covid Vaccine (Forthcoming, December 2021);
- The Idea of Barbados (Forthcoming, December 2021).