Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | |
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Style | The Right Honourable |
Residence | Prime Minister's Official Residence, Kingstown |
Appointer | Governor-General |
Term length | Five years |
Inaugural holder | Ebenezer Joshua (as Chief Minister) Milton Cato (as Premier) |
Formation | 27 October 1979 |
Deputy | Deputy Prime Minister |
Salary | 150,454 Eastern Caribbean dollars/55,724 USD annually[1] |
Website | www |
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Administrative divisions (parishes) |
This article contains a list of prime ministers of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The office of prime minister is established by section 51 of the country's constitution, which provides that the governor-general shall appoint as prime minister the member of the House of Assembly "who appears to him likely to command the support of the majority of the Representatives".[2]
Section 51(6) of the constitution requires the governor-general to remove the prime minister from office if the House of Assembly passes a motion of no confidence, unless within three days the prime minister either resigns or advises the governor-general to call an election.[3]
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Election | Term of office | Political party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
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Ebenezer Joshua (1908–1991) |
1961 1966 |
9 January 1960[4] | 30 May 1967 | 7 years, 141 days | PPP |
2 | Milton Cato (1915–1997) |
1967 | 30 May 1967[5] | 27 October 1969 | 2 years, 150 days | SVLP |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Election | Term of office | Political party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
1 | Milton Cato (1915–1997) |
— | 27 October 1969 | 13 April 1972 | 2 years, 169 days | SVLP | |
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James Fitz-Allen Mitchell (1931–2021) |
1972 | 14 April 1972 | 8 December 1974 | 2 years, 238 days | Independent |
(1) | Milton Cato (1915–1997) |
1974 | 8 December 1974 | 27 October 1979 | 4 years, 323 days | SVLP |
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Election | Term of office | Political party | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
1 | Milton Cato (1915–1997) |
1979 | 27 October 1979 | 30 July 1984 | 4 years, 277 days | SVLP | |
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Sir James Fitz-Allen Mitchell (1931–2021) |
1984 1989 1994 1998 |
30 July 1984 | 27 October 2000 | 16 years, 89 days | NDP |
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Arnhim Eustace (born 1944) |
— | 27 October 2000 | 29 March 2001 | 153 days | NDP |
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Ralph Gonsalves (born 1946) |
2001 2005 2010 2015 2020 |
29 March 2001 | Incumbent | 23 years, 49 days | ULP |