Worldwide Guide to Women in Leadership
The
State of Grenada (Female
suffrage 1951 as part of Leeward and Winward Islands) French Colony till 1783
when it became a British Colony, an associated state in 1967 and independent (Kingdom)
in 1974
Also
see Grenada Parliament
1968-72
Governor The Hon. Dr. Dame
Hilda Louise Byroe
1971-74 Parliamentary Secretary of Youth, Community Development, Sports and Co-operatives
1974-78 Parliamentary Secretary of Education, Culture and Social Welfare Nadia Benjamin
1972-75 Minister of State for Tourism Audrey Palmer-Hawkes
1974- Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Grenada and Her other Realms and Territories, Head of the Commonwealth (07.02-)
1974-78 Parliamentary Secretary of Youth, Community Development, Sports and Co-operatives Waple Nedd
1979-84
Member Revolutionary Council Claudette Kitt
1979-82 Parliamentary Secretary of Health
1982-83 Secretary of Social Affairs in the Ministry of Education and Social
Affairs
1979-82
Minister of Communication Phyllis Evans Coard
1982 Minister of State for Women and Member Revolutionary Council of the
Peoples' Government
(b. 1943-).
1982 Secretary of Tourism in Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Tourism
1979-01
Deputy Secretary of Tourism and Member Revolutionary Council Angela Readhead Bishop
The wife of Maurice Bishop, she immigrated with her children to Canada in 1981.
In 2008 her daughter, Nadia Bishop was named Ambassador to the United Nations.
She was the partner of Maurice Bishop, who staged a revolution in 1979 and named
himself Prime Minister. They had one son together and were both executed in
1983. She lived (1946-83).
1990-93 Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation and Women's Affairs
1993-95 Minister of Works, Community Development, Public Utilities and Women
1995 Minister of Information,
Carriacou and Petit Martinique Affairs
Twice Acting Prime Minister and from around 1996 Deputy Leader and 1998-99 acting Leader of the National Democratic
Congress and Candidate for the post of Prime Minister, MP for
Carriacou and Petit
Martinique till 1999, when The New National Party won all 15 seats in the House
of Representatives.
1988-92
Minister of State for Women's Affairs and Community Development Grace
Duncan
1995-96 Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation, Women's Affairs, Co-operatives and
Social Security (Second in the Cabinet)
1996-98 Deputy Premier, Minister of Health, Housing and Environment
Ambassador-at-Large for Caribbean Affairs from 1999
1989-90 Minister of State for Housing and the Environment Jane Butler
1990-95 Minister of Labour, Co-operatives, Social Security and Community Development Edzel Thomas
1995-96 Minister of Education Lourina Waldron (Third in the Cabinet)
1996-99 Minister of Housing, Women’s Affairs and Social Security
1999-2003 Minister of State for Communication, Works and Public Utilities
MP until 2003.
1998-2003
Minister of Environment and Health Dr. Clarice Modeste-Curwen
2003-07 Minister of
Communication, Works and Transport
2007-08 Minister of Tourism, Civil Aviation,
Culture and the Performing Arts
2013-14 Minister of Health and Social Security
2014-16 Minister of Foreign
Affairs
2016- Minister of Torism and Civil Aviation
1999
Minister of State of Housing, Women’s Affairs and Social Security
Brenda Hood
2009-2007 Minister of Tourism, Civil
Aviation, Social Security, Gender and Family Affairs
2002-07 Minister of Culture was added to the portfolio.
2007-08 Minister of Communication, Works and Transport
2013-14 Parliamentary
Secretary with responsibiliy of Culture in the Ministry of Tourism, Civil
Aviation and Culture
2014- Minister of Culture and the National Lottery
MP and Senator.
Acting Foreign Affairs Minister on several occasions.
2001-04 Parliamentary Secretary with specific
repsonsibility for Family Affairs Yolande Bain-Horsford
2004-08 Minister of
Social Development, Housing, Gender and Family Affairs
2014-16 Minister of
Tourism and Civil Aviation
2016- Minister of Agriculture, Lands, Forestry,
Fisheries and Environment
2003-08 Minister of Health, Social
Security, the Environment and Ecclesiastical Affairs Ann David-Antoine
Senator
2003-06 Minister of State in the Prime
Minister's Office with responsibility for Youth Development
Emmalin Pierre
2006-08 Minister for the Promotion of Youth
2013- Minister of Youth, Sports
and Eccliastical Affairs
Former Assistant Coordinator of Youth Affairs
in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Community Development and Senator
2003-08.
(b. 1975-).
2003-08 Minister of State of Agriculture, Health, Women's Issues and Social Issue's Ingrid Rush
2008-09 Minister of Social Services, Ecclesiastical
Affairs and Labour Glynnis Roberts
2009-10 Minister of Tourism and Social
Development
2010-12
Minister of Labour, Social Security and Ecclesiastical Affairs
2012 Minister of Environment,
Foreign Trade and Export Development
MP 2003-13 for the National Democratic Congress until 2012 when
she founded and became leader of the National United Front,
which did not win a seat in 2013-elections when the former opposition, the New
National Party, won all seats in parliament.
2008-13 Minister of Education Human Resources Bernadine Franka
2008-13 Minister of State of Health Ann Peters
2011-13 Minister of Health
Deputy President of the Senate
1995-99
2013-14 Minister of Tourism and Civil Aviation Alexandra Otway-Noel
2013-14 Minister of Culture
2014- Minister in the Prime Minister´s Office
with responsibilty for Implementation
2013- Minister of Social Development, Housing and Community Development Delma Thomas
2013- Governor-General Dame Cécile La Grenade
Founder
and chief executive of La Grenade Industries.
2016- Parliamentery
Secretary with Responsiblity for Youth and Religious Affairs Pamela Moses
Senator.
Last update 14.07.16