Statecraft & Independence
Household Name
Erskine Sandiford
1937 – 2023
Prime minister from 1987 to 1994
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Why they are here
A teacher and Democratic Labour Party politician who became prime minister on the death of Errol Barrow in 1987.
His government faced a severe economic crisis in the early 1990s and lost a vote of no confidence in 1994.
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