Lloyd Erskine Sandiford

Lloyd Erskine Sandiford

Infobox Prime Minister


name = Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford
order =4th Prime Minister of Barbados
term_start =1 June 1987
term_end =6 September 1994
deputy =
predecessor =Errol Barrow
successor =Owen Arthur
birth_date =Birth date and age|1937|3|24|df=y
birth_place =Barbados
death_date =
death_place =
spouse = Angelita Sandiford
profession = Economics Lecturer
constituency =
party =Democratic Labour Party
languagesspoken =

Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford (born 24 March 1937) is a Barbadian politician. He served as Prime Minister of Barbados from 1987 to 1994.

Sandiford was born in Barbados and educated at Harrison College and the University of the West Indies in Jamaica, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in English. He then studied at Britain's University of Manchester, receiving his Master's degree in economics and social studies. Sandiford returned to Barbados, where he joined the Democratic Labour Party (DLP). In 1967, one year after independence, he was appointed to the Senate. Sandiford left the Senate to run in the 1971 election, in which he won a seat in the House of Assembly. The DLP, under Errol Barrow, formed the government; Sandiford served in many cabinet positions including as minister of education. The DLP lost the 1976 election to the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) and formed the opposition.

In 1986, the DLP was again voted into power. Sandiford was made deputy prime minister to Barrow. In 1987, Barrow died prematurely and Sandiford was appointed prime minister. He led the DLP to victory in the 1991 elections. In 1994 Sandiford narrowly lost a no confidence motion brought against him by the opposition when a number of members of his own party broke ranks and voted in support of the motion. Sandiford then called elections for 1994, two years before they were constitutionally due, but lost to the BLP led by Owen Arthur. He remained in parliament until 1999 and is currently a tutor at the Barbados Community College, where he teaches economics and Caribbean Politics.

In 2000 Erskine Sandifor] was conferred the highest honour in Barbados, the Kinght of St. Andrew (K.A.). In April 2008 under Prime Minister David Thompson a resolution was brought to the Parliament of Barbados that the building now called the Sherbourne Conference Centre which in fact was the idea and brain child of Sir Lloyd, should be renamed the "Sir Lloyd Erskine Sandiford Conference Centre".


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