Vincent Beache

Vincent Beache
Leader of Unity Labour Party
In office
1994–1998
Preceded byNew position
Succeeded byRalph Gonsalves
Leader of Saint Vincent Labour Party
In office
1994–1994
Preceded byStanley 'Stalky' John
Succeeded byParty merged
In office
1986 – September 1992
Preceded byHudson K. Tannis
Succeeded byStanley 'Stalky' John
Personal details
Born
Vincent Ian Beache

13 August 1931
South Rivers, St Vincent
Died5 August 2019
Spring Estate

Sir Vincent Beache was a politician from Saint Vincent and leader of the Saint Vincent Labour Party.

Beache was born on 13 August 1931 in South Rivers, St Vincent.[1] He served in the Royal Air Force, UK. He got training as electrical technician in UK.[1]

In Saint Vincent, he was a banana grower.[2] He was first a candidate of Saint Vincent Labour Party in House of Assembly elections in 1972.[1] Later he was elected as a member of the House of Assembly from 1974 to 1989.[3] Beache was appointed minister of trade and agriculture from March 1978 to April 1984.[1]

After Saint Vincent Labour Party leader Hudson K. Tannis died in a plane crash in August 1986, Beache was elected to succeed him as party leader.[1] He was appointed leader of the opposition in the House of Assembly from March 1985 to March 1989.[3] Beache was the leader of the party at the time of the 1989 elections when the party failed to win any seats in the House of Assembly.[1] Beache was replaced as the party leader in 1992.[1] However, he was re-elected as party leader for the 1994 elections.[1] Following the elections, he was again appointed leader of the opposition from March 1994 to August 1999.[3]

Beache became the first leader of the Unity Labour Party in 1994 when Saint Vincent Labour Party and Movement for National Unity merged.[4] Beache resigned as party leader in 1998,[1] and he was succeeded by Ralph Gonsalves.[5]

He was appointed by Ralph Gonsalves as the minister of national security, public service and airport development from April 2001 to November 2005.[3] He retired from active politics before the 2005 elections.[1] In 2002 he was awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (KCMG).[1]

He died on 5 August 2019 at Spring Estate in St Vincent and the Grenadines.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Biographical Sketch of Sir Vincent Beache - Searchlight". www.searchlight.vc. 16 August 2019.
  2. ^ "Information Services Latin America". ISLA. 1998.
  3. ^ a b c d "MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT FROM LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL 1951 to INDEPENDENCE 1979 to PRESENT" (PDF). House of Assembly of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2022-06-14.
  4. ^ "Remembering Sir Vincent Ian Beache 1 Year After". St Vincent Times. 5 August 2020.
  5. ^ Macmillan, Palgrave (28 February 2017). "The Statesman's Yearbook 2017: The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World". Springer.


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