Top 6 Multi-Millionaires from Antigua and Barbuda and their net worth

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Antigua and Barbuda is a country in the West Indies in the Americas, lying between the Caribbean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It consists of two major islands, Antigua and Barbuda.

Tourism dominates the economy, accounting for more than half of the gross domestic product (GDP). Antigua is famous for its many luxury resorts. Weak tourist activity since early 2000 has slowed the economy, however, and squeezed the government into a tight fiscal corner.

Investment banking and financial services also make up an important part of the economy. Major world banks with offices in Antigua include the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) and Scotiabank. Financial-services corporations with offices in Antigua include PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has accused the Antigua-based Stanford International Bank, owned by Texas billionaire Allen Stanford, of orchestrating a huge fraud which may have bilked investors of some $8 billion.

However, there are few Millionaires that you may not know. This article outlines the Richest people in Antigua and Barbuda.

 

TOP 6 MULTI-MILLIONAIRES IN ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA 2018

 

6. Louise Lake-Tack

Dame Louise Agnetha Lake-Tack GCMG DStJ is a former Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda. She was the first woman to hold the office.

Louise Lake-Tack was born in St Philip Parish, Antigua in 1944. She was educated at Freetown Government School before attending the Antigua Girls High School in St. John’s. After graduating she emigrated to the United Kingdom where she studied nursing at Charing Cross Hospital. Following the completion of her studies, she worked first at the National Heart Hospital and later at the Harley Street Clinic.

Lake-Tack later studied and graduated in law and subsequently served as a magistrate at both Marylebone and Horseferry Magistrate Courts. She also sat at Pocock Street Crown Court and Middlesex Crown Court to hear appeal cases from the lower courts. She served as a member of the Antigua and Barbuda National Association (London) for the 24 years preceding her appointment as Governor-General.

 

5. Baldwin Spencer

Winston Baldwin Spencer was the third Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 2004 to 2014.

 

Spencer led the opposition United Progressive Party (UPP) to victory in the March 2004 parliamentary election. In addition to serving as Prime Minister, he became Minister of Foreign Affairs on January 6, 2005.

Spencer’s party was swept from power in the June 2014 general election.

 

4. Rodney Williams

Rodney is the son of Ernest Emmanuel Williams, the former Antigua Labour Party (ALP) parliamentary representative for the St Paul constituency.

 

He is a medical doctor by profession. He entered politics in 1984 as the Member of Parliament for St Paul constituency, that had been previously represented by his father. Between 1992 and 2004, he served in the cabinet as a minister, holding variously or jointly the portfolios of education, culture, technology, economic development, tourism, and environment.
He represented St Paul up to 2004 when he lost his seat in the 2004 general election, when his party, the Antigua Labour Party lost the general elections to the United Progressive Party.

 

3. Harold Lovell

Harold Earl Edmund Lovell is a political nominee for the Auntiguan general elections, 2018.

He was the minister of Minister of Finance, the Economy and Public Administration (Antigua and Barbuda).

He was also the minister of tourism and civil aviation.[3] He was the minister of foreign affairs and trade from March 2004 to January 2005, when Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer took over those posts in a cabinet reshuffle, giving Lovell his current posts.

 

2. Lester Bird

 

Sir Lester Bryant Bird, KNH was the second Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda from 1994 to 2004 and a well-known athlete.

He was chairman of the Antigua Labour Party (ALP) from 1971 to 1983, then became Prime Minister when his father, Sir Vere Bird, the previous Prime Minister, resigned.

 

1. Gaston Browne

Gaston Alfonso Browne is the Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda. He has been the island’s leader since 2014.

Before entering politics, he was a banker and businessman.