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Dr. the Honourable Ralph E. Gonsalves

Dr. the Honourable Ralph E. Gonsalves

Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines

Ralph Everad Gonsalves was born on 8 August 1946 to Alban Gonsalves (a farmer and small businessman) and Theresa Francis (a small business woman) in Colonarie, a rural village in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. His foreparents came to Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in 1845 as indentured servants from the Portuguese-ruled island of Madeira, some 300 kilometers off the north-west coast of Morocco in North West Africa. Dr. Gonsalves was educated in St. Vincent and the Grenadines at the Colonarie Roman Catholic School and at the St. Vincent Boys’ Grammar School. He later completed a Bachelor's Degree in Economics at the University of the West Indies, there obtaining several noteworthy accolades including, President of the Debating Society and President of the Guild of Undergraduates. In 1971 he obtained a Masters in Government from the University of the West Indies. In 1974 and 1981, he obtained a PhD in Government and a Degree of Utter Barrister at University of Manchester, England and Gray’s Inn, London, respectively.

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