Se­nior Po­lit­i­cal Re­porter

Prime Min­is­ter Kam­la Per­sad-Bisses­sar, Op­po­si­tion Leader Pen­ne­lope Beck­les, and sev­er­al re­gion­al lead­ers all con­grat­u­lat­ed Dr God­win El­liot Lo­raine Fri­day on his elec­tion as Prime Min­is­ter of St Vin­cent and the Grenadines.

Beck­les and the oth­er re­gion­al lead­ers al­so com­mend­ed out­go­ing Prime Min­is­ter Dr Ralph Gon­salves, whose Uni­ty Labour Par­ty (ULP) was de­feat­ed by Fri­day’s New De­mo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty (NDP), end­ing 24 years of op­po­si­tion and re­turn­ing the NDP to pow­er.