Gline Arley Clarke (born 9 February 1951) is a Barbadian politician and teacher. He was a member of parliament in the

House of Assembly of Barbados The House of Assembly of Barbados is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Barbados. It has 30 Members of Parliament (MPs), who are directly elected in single member constituencies using the simple-majority (or first-past-the-post) sys ...

. Clarke is the Barbados Ambassador to Canada since September 2020.

Early life

Clarke was born on 9 February 1951 in Newbury, St. George,

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. He attended University of the West Indies where he studied and graduated. In 1974 he secured his degree in Social Science and Political Science.

Career

Clarke began his career as a teacher, teaching in 1970 at the St. Jude's Primary in Barbados. After teaching for ten years, in 1983 he was appointed vice counsel and liaison officer at the Barbados High Commission in

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where he served till 1987. On his return to Barbados in 1991, he briefly worked with former Prime Minister

Owen Arthur Owen Seymour Arthur, PC (17 October 194927 July 2020) was a Barbadian politician who served as the fifth prime minister of Barbados from 6 September 1994 to 15 January 2008. He is the longest-serving Barbadian prime minister to date. He also ...

till 1994. In 1994, he was elected to the Barbados Parliament where he worked as Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Housing and Public Works. In 1999, he was re-elected Minister of Housing and Lands until 2003, and subsequently re-elected as Minister of Public Works and Transport from 2003 to 2008. In 2013, Clarke was re-elected to the

Barbados House of Assembly The House of Assembly of Barbados is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Barbados. It has 30 Members of Parliament (MPs), who are directly elected in single member constituencies using the simple-majority (or first-past-the-post) syst ...

in the 2013 general election. He held his seat in the 2018 general election and was appointed as the Deputy Speaker in the 2018. On September 21, 2020 Clarke resigned as member of Parliament after he was appointed Barbados Ambassador to

. He resumed his position in Ottawa in July 2021, several months after his appointment.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Clarke, Gline Members of the House of Assembly of Barbados 1951 births University of the West Indies alumni High Commissioners of Barbados to Canada Barbados Labour Party politicians Living people