Adriel Brathwaite
Adriel Dermont Brathwaite, Q.C. is a Barbadian politician and lawyer, who formally held the positions of Attorney-General, Minister of Home Affairs, and Member of Parliament for Saint Philip South.Career
Brathwaite is a member of the Democratic Labour Party. He worked in the British Virgin Islands for ten years before returning to Barbados. He was elected to Parliament as MP for Saint Philip South in the 2008 election. He was named Attorney-General and Minister of Home Affairs in July 2010, to replace Freundel Stuart who had been elevated to acting Prime Minister. Brathwaite resigned from the Cabinet of Barbados as Attorney general and Minister of Home Affairs, after the Democratic Labour Party was crushed with an overwhelming defeat in the 2018 Barbadian general election, losing all its seats in the Parliament of Barbados to the Barbados Labour Party. Brathwaite was also defeated in his own seat of Saint Philip South.Personal life
Brathwaite grew up in Marchfield, Saint Philip Parish. He did his primary education at St Martins Primary and his secondary education at Harrison College. He went on to the University of the West Indies for his LL.B, and then earned his Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School.
