Carl Greenidge | |
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![]() Greenidge in 2018 | |
Foreign Secretary | |
In office May 2019 –August 2020 | |
President | David A. Granger |
Vice President | |
In office May 2015 –April 2019 | |
President | David A. Granger |
Minister of Foreign Affairs | |
In office May 2015 –April 2019 | |
Preceded by | Carolyn Rodrigues |
Succeeded by | Karen Cummings |
Minister of Finance [1] | |
In office 1983–1992 | |
Preceded by | Hugh Desmond Hoyte |
Succeeded by | Asgar Ally |
Personal details | |
Born | Carl Barrington Greenidge March 3,1949 New Amsterdam,British Guiana |
Nationality | Guyanese |
Political party | People's National Congress |
Occupation | Politician |
Carl Barrington Greenidge (born March 3,1949) is a Guyanese politician from People's National Congress. [2] [3] From May 2015 to April 2019,he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and one of the vice presidents in the cabinet of David A. Granger. [4]
Greenidge was born in New Amsterdam. [2] He has bachelor's degree in economics from University of Exeter;a MA and MPhil in Economics from the University of London. Greenridge served as Minister of Finance from 1983 to 1992 in the cabinet of Forbes Burnham. [5]
In May 2015,Greenidge was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs and one of the vice presidents in the cabinet of David A. Granger [4] During his tenure,he was involved with the Guyana–Venezuela territorial dispute at the International Court of Justice. [6] In 2019,Greenidge was forced to resign when the Caribbean Court of Justice ruled that people with dual citizenship were not eligible to be members of the National Assembly. [7] Greenidge,who also held British citizenship at time,was replaced as minister by Karen Cummings [8] and appointed to the newly created position of Foreign Secretary. [9] Hugh Todd,the Minister of Foreign Affairs as of 2020,appointed Robert Persaud to the position of Foreign Secretary but retained Greenidge on the ministry's team for the border issue while the case is ongoing. [10] [6]