Ralph Gonsalves
5th Prime Minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Incumbent
Assumed office  March 29, 2001
Deputy	Louis Straker
Preceded by	Arnhim Eustace
Succeeded by	Incumbent
Born	August 8, 1946 Colonaire, St. Vincent
Political party	Unity Labour Party
Spouse	Eloise Gonsalves

Ralph Everard Gonsalves (born August 8, 1946), also known as "Comrade Ralph", is the Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines. He has held that position since March 29, 2001. He is leader of the Unity Labour Party, and won the 2001 general elections by a landslide of 12 seats to 3, after a close run in the 1998 elections. He was re-elected in the December 2005 elections with the same parliamentary ratio. Image File history File links from rulers. ... This page lists chief ministers and prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. ... The incumbent, in politics, is the current holder of a political office. ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in leap years). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Arnhim Eustace Arnhim Ulric Eustace (born 1944) is a development economist and politician from Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Motto: Pax et justitia (Latin: Peace and justice) Anthem: St Vincent Land So Beautiful Capital (and largest city) Kingstown Official languages English Government Parliamentary democracy Commonwealth Realm  - Monarch Queen Elizabeth II  - Governor-General Sir Frederick Ballantyne  - Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves Independence From the United Kingdom   - Date 27 October 1979  Area... The Unity Labour Party is a political party in Saint Vincent. ... August 8 is the 220th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (221st in leap years), with 145 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... This page lists chief ministers and prime minister of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. ... March 29 is the 88th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (89th in leap years). ... 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Unity Labour Party is a political party in Saint Vincent. ...

He first entered political life as a student at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica; in 1968, as president of the Guild of Undergraduates, Gonsalves led the student protest at the banning of popular historian and intellectual Walter Rodney. The University of the West Indies, also known as UWI, is an autonomous regional institution supported by and serving 16 countries and territories in the Caribbean - Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Jamaica, Montserrat, St. ... Mona is a neighbourhood in the southeastern St. ... Walter Rodney (March 23, 1942 - June 13, 1980) was a prominent Guyanese historian and political figure. ...

Gonsalves received his Ph.D. in political science from UWI, Mona, and went on to receive a law degree from the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados before returning to practise law and become an active politician in his homeland. Cave Hill, in Barbados can refer to two areas located on the island-nation of Barbados. ...

He has said, "Modern terrorism is a barbarism out of sync with civilized life."[1]

Bibliography

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Books

• The spectre of imperialism: the case of the Caribbean (University of the West Indies; 128 pages, 1976)
• The non-capitalist path of development: Africa and the Caribbean (One Caribbean Publishers; 1981)
• History and the future: a Caribbean perspective (169 pages, 1994)
• Notes on some basic ideas in Marxism-Leninism (University of the West Indies; 56 pages)

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• The Rodney affair and its aftermath (University of the West Indies; 21 pages, 1975)
• The development and class character of the bourgeois state: the case of St. Vincent (University of the West Indies; 15 pages, 1976)
• Controls and influences on the civil service and statutory bodies in the Commonwealth Caribbean: a preliminary discussion (University of the West Indies; 67 pages, 1977)
• The development of the labour movement in St. Vincent (37 pages, 1977)
• Who killed sugar in St. Vincent? (United Liberation Movement; 21 pages, 1977)
• On the political economy of Barbados (One Caribbean Publishers; 49 pages, 1981)
• The trade union movement in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Movement for National Unity; 64 pages, 1983)
• Ebenezer Joshua: his ideology and style (Movement for National Unity; 39 pages, 1984)
• (editor) The trial of George McIntosh (Caribbean Diaspora Press; 80 pages, 1985)
• Authority in the police force: its uses and abuses (Movement for National Unity; 45 pages, 1986)
• Banana in trouble: its present and future (Movement for National Unity; 22 pages, 1989)

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