Owen Arthur
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"Owen Seymour Arthur", Barbados House of Assembly/MP is a Barbados/Barbadian politician who was List of Prime Ministers of Barbados#Prime Ministers (Post-Independence)/Prime Minister of Barbados from 1994 to 2008. To date, he is the longest serving Barbadian Prime Minister. He was Leader of the Opposition in Barbados from 2010 to 2013.

He led the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) to victory in the 1994 general election and won general elections again in 1999 and 2003. In the Barbadian general election, 2008/2008 general election, his party was defeated by the Democratic Labour Party (Barbados)/Democratic Labour Party and its leader David Thompson (Barbadian politician)/David Thompson. Arthur stepped down as party leader, but remained the Member of Parliament for the constituency of Saint Peter, Barbados/Saint Peter. He subsequently returned to lead the BLP in 2010, but he was replaced as party leader after the BLP lost the Barbadian general election, 2013/2013 general election.

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We have a duty to bring a new spirit to bear in the service of our oldest and grandest cause, and it must not be an opportunity that finds us wanting.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering change that threatens to engulf him.

But for others like me, today is a day to be proud of those we love.

For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

I am satisfied that all politicians were meant to be journalists and all journalists meant to be politicians.

For he who has health has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.