Douglas re-elected as leader of St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
BASSETERRE, St Kitts: St. Kitts and Nevis
Prime Minister Dr Denzil Douglas has been re-elected as National Political
Leader of the ruling St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP).
Dr. Douglas was re-elected unopposed at the business session of the two-day
72nd Annual Conference attended by some 600 delegates on Sunday for a 16th
consecutive term.
Elected as Parliamentary Representative for
Constituency # 6, Dr. Douglas has been serving as Prime Minister of the
Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis since July 1995 when the Labour Party won 7
of the 8 seats on St. Kitts. In the 2000 General Election, the SKNLP won all
eight seats on St. Kitts and holds 8 of the 11 seats in the lawmaking body.
Elected as National Political Leader in 1989, the charismatic physician is the
second longest serving political leader of this grassroots organisation, after
the late Sir Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw, who served for 34 years from 1944
until 1978, when he died on May 23rd 1978 following a prolonged illness.
Other officers re-elected unopposed were Deputy Prime Minister, Sam Condor as
Deputy Political Leader; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Education, Dr Timothy
Harris as National Chairman; businessman, Mr. Earl Clarke as National Vice
Chairman; National Secretary is Ms. Sharylle Richardson; National Assistant
Secretary, Senator, Marcella Liburd and National Treasurer, Ms. Carolyn Adams.
The other elected members of the National Executive are Mrs. Eugenie Condor,
Mr. Carl Lake and Mr. Kenrick Caines. Each Constituency, Young Labour and
Labour Women will each have a representative to serve on the National
Executive.
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