Cyprian Lansiquot is a
Saint Lucian lawyer and politician. He was a
Labour Party member of the
House of Assembly of Saint Lucia
The House of Assembly is the lower house of the Parliament of Saint Lucia, elected by popular vote. The upper house is the Senate. It has 17 or 18 members: 17 members elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies, and a speaker e ...
from 1997 to 2006 and served as a
parliamentary secretary.
Private career
Lansiquot has a diploma and a post-graduate diploma in agriculture from the
University of the West Indies and has worked as an agricultural officer. He received a law degree from the
University of Wolverhampton
The University of Wolverhampton is a public university located on four campuses across the West Midlands, Shropshire and Staffordshire in England. The roots of the university lie in the Wolverhampton Tradesmen's and Mechanics' Institute founde ...
in 2004, was called to the
Bar of England and Wales
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in November 2010, and joined the Saint Lucia Bar Association the following month.
Politician
Lansiquot was elected for the Anse-la-Raye/Canaries constituency in the
1997 national elections, in which the Labour Party won a
majority government. In May 1997, he was appointed by incoming
prime minister
A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...
as parliamentary secretary to the minister of communications, works, transport and public utilities. He held this position for the next five years, having won a second parliamentary mandate in
2001, and later served as parliamentary secretary to the minister of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries from 2002 to 2006.
Lansiquot fended off a high-profile challenge by trade union leader David Demacque for the Anse-la-Raye/Canaries Labour nomination in early 2006.
[Jason Sifflet, "Labour running off course?", ''Saint Lucia Star'', 19 March 2010.] The Labour Party was defeated in
that year's general election, and Lansiquot narrowly lost his seat to
Keith Mondesir
Keith Raymond Rufus Mondesir (born January 23, 1948) is a Saint Lucian politician. He has been a United Workers Party member of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia and a member of the Saint Lucian cabinet since 2006, serving in the administrati ...
of the
United Workers Party.
Electoral record
References
Living people
Members of the House of Assembly of Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia Labour Party politicians
Year of birth missing (living people)
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