Cynthia A. "Mother" Pratt (born 5 November 1945) is the former Deputy

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. She attained the office when the

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came to power in the national elections of 2002. She is a

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minister and served as a

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teacher in the Bahamian public school system. She served as acting Prime Minister in 2005 when PM

Perry Christie Perry Gladstone Christie PC, MP (born 21 August 1943) is a Bahamian former politician who served as Prime Minister of the Bahamas from 2002 to 2007 and from 2012 to 2017. He is the second longest-serving Bahamian elected parliamentarian (behi ...

suffered a stroke. She was re-elected to her seat in Parliament in the 2007 general election. On Friday, 10 November 2017, she launched her biography, An Ordinary Woman from the Heart of the Inner City, published by Scholar Books. Publisher Albert Cox reported at the launch that 35,000 copies had been sold already. Vernon Lynch, brother of actor Eddie Murphy, confirmed he will make Mrs Pratt's book into a movie. On 1 August 2022, she was sworn in as the deputy to the

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