Bryan Michael Pilgrim (born 3 January 1947) is a
Saint Lucian politician and former prime minister.
He was appointed as a minister within the office of Prime Minister
Allan Louisy
Sir Allan Fitzgerald Laurent Louisy (5 September 1916 – 2 March 2011) was the second prime minister of independent St Lucia, following Sir John Compton in office. He was born in Laborie on 5 September 1916 and served as a judge before being e ...
after Saint Lucia Labour Party victory in the elections of 1979. However, he fell out with the Labour party in 1982.
He served as 4th Prime Minister of Saint Lucia
(Acting Prime Minister) after the resignation of
Winston Cenac
Winston Francis Cenac Q.C. (14 September 1925 – 22 September 2004) was a civil servant and politician from Saint Lucia. He was the third elected Prime Minister of independent Saint Lucia.
He served as General Procurator for Saint Lucia, S ...
on 17 January 1982. He also held the additional portfolio of
Minister of Finance
A finance minister is an executive or cabinet position in charge of one or more of government finances, economic policy and financial regulation.
A finance minister's portfolio has a large variety of names around the world, such as "treasury", " ...
. As agreed he served for four months. He campaigned in the 1982 elections as
Progressive Labour Party candidate, but lost.
He was succeeded as prime minister in May 1982 by
John Compton
Sir John George Melvin Compton, (29 April 1925 – 7 September 2007) was a Saint Lucian politician who became the first Prime Minister upon independence in February 1979. Having led Saint Lucia under British rule from 1964 to 1979, Compton se ...
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leader of the
United Workers' Party.
He campaigned in both of the 1987 elections as a candidate of Progressive Labour Party candidate, but lost.
Then Pilgrim set up his own accounting firm. However, in the elections of 1992 he campaigned as United Workers Party (UWP) candidate, but lost.
See also
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United Workers Party (Saint Lucia)
The United Workers Party is a conservative political party in Saint Lucia currently led by former Tourism Minister Allen Chastanet, who defeated former Prime Minister Stephenson King in a July 28, 2013 leadership election. The party was led previ ...
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Politics of Saint Lucia
Politics of Saint Lucia takes place in the framework of an independent parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy, with King Charles III as its head of state, represented by a Governor General, who acts on the advice of the prime ministe ...
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List of prime ministers of Saint Lucia
References
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Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States
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Office of the Prime Minister of Saint Lucia*Biography available i
Prime Ministers of Saint Lucia
Living people
1947 births
Prime Ministers of Saint Lucia
Finance ministers of Saint Lucia
Saint Lucia Labour Party politicians
Progressive Labour Party (Saint Lucia) politicians
United Workers Party (Saint Lucia) politicians
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