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, Trinidad and Tobago. Alexis obtained his secondary education, 1962–68, from the Grenada Boys Secondary School, Grenada. Alexis was appointed Queen’s Counsel in the Eastern Caribbean on August 7, 2008. Alexis is a practising Catholic. He has been married to Margaret Alexis née De Bique since 1973. He is the father of three and grandfather of one. Alexis has been active in Grenadian politics since 1983; while in exile in Barbados during

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(PRG), he founded the Grenada Democratic Movement (GDM) as an alliance of various exile groups opposed to the PRG. The GDM later merged with the Grenada National Party (led by

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) and the National Democratic Party (led by

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) in August 1984 to create the New National Party (NNP). In 1987, Alexis, along with George Brizan, broke with the NNP to form the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He subsequently broke with the NDC, and has since founded the Democratic Labor Party (DLP) and the

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(PLM).

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