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Dean Barrow

The Right Honourable
Dean Barrow
Belizean Prime Minister, Dean Barrow in London, 27 June 2013 (cropped).jpg
Prime Minister of Belize
Assumed office
8 February 2008
Monarch Elizabeth II
Governor General Colville Young
Deputy Gaspar Vega (2008–2016)
Patrick Faber (2016–present)
Preceded by Said Musa
Leader of the Opposition
In office
30 August 1998 – 8 February 2008
Prime Minister Said Musa
Preceded by Said Musa
Succeeded by Said Musa
Member of the Belize House of Representatives
for Queen's Square
Assumed office
14 December 1984
Preceded by Constituency established
Personal details
Born Dean Oliver Barrow
(1951-03-02) 2 March 1951 (age 65)
Belize City, British Honduras
(now Belize)
Political party United Democratic Party
Spouse(s) Lois Young
Kim Simplis (2009–present)
Alma mater St Michael's College
University of the West Indies
University of Miami

Dean Oliver Barrow (born 2 March 1951) is a Belizean politician who has been Prime Minister of Belize since 2008. He is also the leader of the United Democratic Party (UDP). An attorney by trade, he served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1993 to 1998 and was Leader of the Opposition from 1998 until the UDP won the February 2008 election. Barrow started his first term as Prime Minister after victory in the 2008 election. He started his second term after the UDP again won an election on 7 March 2012. He started his third term when the UDP won again on 4 November, 2015.

Barrow, a senior counsel, is one of Belize's successful attorneys and has appeared in several high-profile cases. He began his legal work in the law firm of uncle Dean Lindo in 1973 and became a partner there in 1977. He would eventually leave to form his own law firm, Barrow and Williams (with Rodwell Williams) until he vacated office prior to the 2008 general elections, although he remains titular senior partner. Among his firm's more controversial clients is Lord Ashcroft and the businesses he is connected with, particularly the Belize Bank and at one time, Belize Telemedia Limited, formerly Belize Telecommunications Limited.

In December 1983 Barrow entered electoral politics as a candidate for Belize City Council elections, which he won as part of a nine-man slate. Before that year's redistricting, in 1984 Barrow was preselected as the UDP candidate for Collet but after redistricting chose to contest the newly created Queen's Square constituency instead, as was his prerogative under UDP party rules. In the ensuing election Barrow handily defeated Ralph Fonseca of the People's United Party. Soon after he was appointed to the first Manuel Esquivel Cabinet as Attorney-General and Minister of Foreign Affairs.


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