Timothy Harris

Background

Harris grew up in the rural village of Tabernacle.

Education

He attended the Cayon High School and Basseterre High School before making his journey to six university campuses, two in the Caribbean and four in Canada. In 1988, Harris graduated from the Cave Hill Campus of the University of the West Indies with a Bachelor of Science

Career

Between 2008 -2010, Harris was Minister responsible for Finance and served as Senior Minister and Minister for Agriculture between 2010-2013. Degree with a First Class Honours in Accounting. The only graduate of the Bachelor of Science

Accounting programme to obtain this distinction.

He also received the Victor Crooke Prize for Best Accounting Student. He returned home and worked for two years at managerial level with South. L. Horsfords and Company Limited.

In 1990-1992 he pursued his Master of Science degree in Accounting at the Saint Augustine Campus of UWI in Trinidad and Tobago.

He graduated top of the class with an Master of Science degree with a Distinction in Accounting. The doctoral programme is a joint Doctor of Philosophy programme involving Concordia University, McGill and two francophone universities: H.E.C. and UQAM. Harris holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Administration majoring in Accounting.

Doctor Harris has been: Minister of Agriculture, Lands and Housing, Minister of Education, Labour and Social Security, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Education and Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade, Industry and Commerce.

In 2013 the Prime Minister fired Harris from the cabinet. Harris established the People"s Labour Party (PLP) later in the year. He succeeded the incumbent Denzil Douglas who served a historic near 20 year tenure.

Achievements

• Harris participated in elective politics in 1993 and since then won his seat on the Saint Kitts-Nevis Labour Party ticket, in each parliamentary elections held in 1995, 2000, 2004, and 2010. He has published several works and received several awards, including the Saint Kitts Youth Council Award for Excellence in Education, the FESTAB Community Award for outstanding contribution to FESTAB and a certificate for outstanding contribution to the Cayon High School. The alliance won the elections, and although the PLP won only one seat, Harris became the third Prime Minister of independent Saint Kitts and Nevis on 16 February.

Views

In 2001 Harris successfully defended his Doctor of Philosophy dissertation at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.