| The Honourable David John Howard Thompson MP | |
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| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 16 January 2008 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Governor General | Clifford Husbands |
| Preceded by | Owen Arthur |
| Constituency | Saint John |
| Born | December 1961 London, United Kingdom |
| Political party | DLP |
| Profession | Lawyer |
David John Howard Thompson, MP (born December 1961, London[1][2]) has been the Prime Minister of Barbados since January 2008. The prefix The Honourable or The Honorable (abbreviated to " The Hon The House of Assembly is the Lower house of the Bicameral Parliament of Barbados. This is a list of current and former Barbadian heads of Government. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common For the ship see RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Context States headed by Elizabeth II Sir Clifford Straughn Husbands, GCMG, KA, CHB, GCM, QC (born Owen Seymour Arthur, MP (born 17 October 1949) was the Prime Minister of Barbados from 1994 to 2008 Statistics Events in December Union Day of Romania (1 December World AIDS Day ( December 1) National Day of Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Democratic Labour Party (DLP is the social-democratic ruling party in Barbados. A lawyer, according to Black's Law Dictionary, is "a person learned in the law as an attorney, Counsel or Solicitor; a person The House of Assembly is the Lower house of the Bicameral Parliament of Barbados. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. This is a list of current and former Barbadian heads of Government. Barbados ( Portuguese word for bearded-ones, bɑrˈbeɪdoʊz -dɒs situated just east of the Caribbean Sea, is an independent Island nation
Thompson came to politics in a by-election after the death of Prime Minister Errol Barrow, gaining his parliamentary seat for Saint John in 1987. Errol Walton Barrow ( 21 January 1920 &ndash 1 June 1987) was a Caribbean statesman and the first Prime Minister of Statistics [1][2]
Whilst Erskine Sandiford was in office as Prime Minister, Thompson served as Minister of Community Development and Culture from 1991 to 1993. Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford (born 24 March 1937) is a Barbadian politician He was subsequently appointed Minister of Finance from 1993 to 1994 and launched a process of restructuring the Barbados economy after it had undergone an IMF stabilization programme. He became leader of the DLP after Sandiford resigned after losing a parliamentary no confidence motion and unsuccessfully led the Democratic Labour Party in elections in 1994 and 1999. The Democratic Labour Party (DLP is the social-democratic ruling party in Barbados. He resigned as party leader in September 2001 following his third electoral defeat as party leader in the St. Thomas by-election. However, when party leader Clyde Mascoll switched allegiance to the Barbados Labour Party, Thompson once again became opposition leader[1][2] in January 2006. The Hon Clyde Mascoll is a politician from Barbados. He is a former leader of the Democratic Labour Party (DLP [1]
The DLP won the general election held on January 15, 2008 with 20 seats against 10 for the Barbados Labour Party, which was led by former Prime Minister Owen Arthur. A general election was held in Barbados on 15 January 2008. A concurrent referendum to determine whether or not to become a republic was Events 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah 's reign 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common The Barbados Labour Party is the main opposition party of Barbados. Owen Seymour Arthur, MP (born 17 October 1949) was the Prime Minister of Barbados from 1994 to 2008 Thompson was sworn in as Prime Minister on January 16,[3] becoming Barbados' sixth prime minister and the third to serve under the DLP. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. Thompson was also re-elected to his own seat from St. John constituency with 84% of the vote. [4] He announced his Cabinet on January 19, including himself as Minister of Finance, Economic Affairs and Development, Labour, Civil Service and Energy; it was sworn in on January 20. Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy. Events 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. [5]
This article about politics is a stub. Politics Politics is the process by which groups of people make decisions You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. References
- ^ a b c d "Thompson: 'much at stake for Barbados'", BBC Caribbean, January 16, 2008.
- ^ a b c Rulers
- ^ "Thompson sworn in as Barbados PM", Xinhua, January 17, 2008.
- ^ Election result page for St. John in the 2008 election.
- ^ "The new Cabinet", cbc. bb, January 20, 2008.
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