Mia Mottley
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Mia Mottley (born 1 October 1965) is a Barbadian politician. She is currently the 8th and current Prime Minister of Barbados since 25 May 2018.
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Quotes[edit]
- In a family, children leave and go and set up their own households and that does not in any way affect the relationship between the family.
- Mia Mottley (2020) cited in: "Barbados PM Mia Mottley's message for Australia as her country prepares to remove Queen Elizabeth as head of state" in ABC News, 17 September 2020.
- Our people humanized the violent, inhumane slave plantation society that the British colonialists had established, (but) we are still faced with the insidious nature of a culture that is intended to dehumanize black people wherever black or blackness is found, and our parliaments therefore, while we shall be in the vanguard of removing all laws of discrimination, it is the mental emancipation that shall forever always matter.
- Mia Mottley (2021) cited in: "Mia Mottley: Barbados’ first female leader on a mission to transform island" in The Guardian, 3 December 2021.
- To ask us (Barbados) to continue carrying the battle against the backdrop of the (COVID-19) pandemic and not having contributed to the crisis to greenhouse gases is really unacceptable. We can't fight the pandemic or climate crisis from a national perspective. All of us have to cooperate globally, or we're not going to win this battle.
- Mia Mottley (2021) cited in: "Prime Minister of Barbados discusses ongoing global climate crisis with Emory community" in The Emory Wheel, 9 December 2021.