Denzil Llewellyn Douglas (born 14 January 1953) has been Prime Minister of Saint Kitts and Nevis

Saint Kitts and Nevis

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 since July 1995. He leads the Saint Kitts and Nevis Labour Party

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. He is the longest serving Prime Minister Saint Kitts and Nevis has ever had.

Early life and pre-political career

Born on January 14, 1953, in the village of St. Pauls

Saint Paul Capesterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis

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, Douglas studied medicine as a young man. He obtained a Bachelor of Science

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 degree in 1977 and a Degree in Medicine in 1984 from the University of the West Indies

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. In 1986 he established a private medical practice as a family physician and served as President of the St. Kitts-Nevis Medical Association in the late 1980s.

Political life

Douglas was elected M.P.

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 for St. Christopher (No.6) ward (Newton Ground

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, St. Paul's, Dieppe Bay

Dieppe Bay Town

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, Saddlers

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, and Harris) in the National Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis

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 in 1989 and appointed Leader of the Opposition

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. That year he was also elected leader of the St. Kitts-Nevis Labour Party.

He restructured the party in preparation for its 1995 electoral victory. He was appointed Prime Minister of the Federation in 1995, re-appointed Prime Minister in March 2000 and again in October 2004 after the Labour Party won a third term with seven of the eight seats on St. Kitts. The Labour Party won its fourth consecutive term in office on January 25, 2010 winning six of the eight seats on St Kitts in the eleven-member National Assembly.

In 2011 he was appointed a Privy Counsellor which bestowed him the title of "Right Honourable."