BASSETERRE, ST. KITTS (February 26th 2017) – The spacious Maltin Moving Conference Room at the Eastern Caribbean Central Bank (ECCB) is the venue for the official launch of the Robert L. Bradshaw Institute of Governance, Politics and Industrial Relations.
This has been disclosed by The Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw Centennial Committee which further disclosed that the event will begin at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday 2nd March 2017.
National Political Leader of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party (SKNLP) and Leader of the Opposition, the Rt. Hon. Dr. Denzil L. Douglas told a packed and overflowing Town Hall Meeting that the guest speaker at the launch will be the distinguished Prime Minister of St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Dr. the Hon. Ralph Gonsalves.
The launch of the institute is part of the activities to mark the centenary of his birth.
Robert Llewellyn Bradshaw was born on 16 September 1916 and served in many capacities including Chief Minister, Premier of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, legislator, and trade unionist.
He also served in the Executive Council in 1946, Minister of Trade and Production for St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla in 1956 as a Minister of Finance in the short-lived West Indies Federation from 1958 to 1962 after he was elected to the Federal House of Representatives.
Having won the 1975 general election and receiving the mandate to take St. Kitts and Nevis into Independence, Bradshaw travelled to London in 1977 for independence talks with the United Kingdom government.
Bradshaw, serving as Premier died on 23 May 1978.
