Ernest Hilaire | |
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Deputy Prime Minister | |
Assumed office 7 January 2022 | |
Prime Minister | Philip Pierre |
Preceded by | Vacant |
Member of Parliament for Castries South | |
Assumed office 6 June 2016 | |
Preceded by | Robert Kennedy Lewis |
1st Deputy Leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party [1] | |
Assumed office 28 September 2019 | |
Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information | |
Assumed office 5 August 2021 [2] | |
Personal details | |
Political party | Saint Lucia Labour Party |
Education | University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Darwin College, Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science |
Website | https://ernesthilaire.com [3] |
Ernest Hilaire is a Saint Lucian politician who is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Tourism, Investment, Creative Industries, Culture and Information.[4] Hilaire also serves as the 1st Deputy Political Leader of the Saint Lucia Labour Party.[5] Hilaire serves in the House of Assembly as the representative for Castries South. Hilaire is the former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom for Saint Lucia.[6] He served in opposition from 2016[7] till the landslide victory of the Saint Lucia Labour Party in the 2021 general election.[8]