La Celia Aritha Prince (born in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1977) became Ambassador of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to the United States on May 30, 2008. [1] Prince was the youngest ambassador in the Washington diplomatic corps. [2]
La Celia Aritha Prince (born in Kingstown, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, 1977) became Ambassador of St. Vincent and the Grenadines to the United States on May 30, 2008. [1] Prince was the youngest ambassador in the Washington diplomatic corps. [2]
Prince earned an LLB from the University of the West Indies in 1999 and her Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School, qualifying as a lawyer in 2001. [1]
At first, she practiced as a barrister-at-law and solicitor in St. Vincent and the Grenadines prior to earning a master’s studies in law at Cambridge University. In 2003, Prince took up a fellowship in multilateral trade negotiations and was assigned to the CARICOM delegation at the Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico for a short time at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. [1]
She first served in Washington beginning in September 2005, as minister counselor at the Embassy of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and alternate representative to the Organization of American States. [1] She succeeded Fitzgerald Bramble as deputy chief of mission. [3]
Prince stepped down as ambassador in July 2016 and joined the OAS. Lou-Anne Gaylene Gilchrist was appointed as her replacement. [4]