25 Facts About Dean Barrow

An attorney by profession, Barrow served as Belize's 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.

Dean Barrow was elected to his first term as prime minister in 2008.

Dean Barrow started his second term after the UDP again won an election on March 7,2012 and his third term when the UDP won again on November 4,2015.

Dean Barrow was born and raised in Belize City, British Honduras.

Dean Barrow is a grandson of Ebenezer Oliver Buntin Barrow, a district commissioner in British Honduras and officeholder in the National Party.

Dean Barrow attended the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, where he graduated with a degree in economics and political science.

Dean Barrow eventually left to form his own law firm, Barrow and Williams, with partner Rodwell Williams.

Dean Barrow left the firm in 2008, but maintains the title of senior partner.

In December 1983, Dean Barrow entered electoral politics as a candidate in Belize City's elections for city council, which he won as part of a nine-man slate.

In 1993, Dean Barrow won his third straight general election and returned to the Cabinet in the posts he held from the previous administration in addition to Minister of National Security.

Dean Barrow's detractors called him "Minister of Everything" during this period because he was a particularly high-profile spokesman for the Esquivel government.

Dean Barrow presided over the smallest oppositions in the House of Representatives since 1974 and ever in the UDP's history.

Dean Barrow was reelected in 1998 and 2003 by closer margins than his previous elections over attorney Richard "Dickie" Bradley.

The UDP won a massive victory, with 25 out of 31 seats, in the general election held on 7 February 2008, and Dean Barrow was sworn in as Prime Minister on 8 February.

The UDP won a reduced majority in the 2012 general election and Dean Barrow started his second term as Prime Minister on 9 March 2012.

Dean Barrow announced his cabinet, including himself as the Minister of Finance and Economic Development, on 12 March 2012.

Dean Barrow led the UDP to a third consecutive general election victory in November 2015, however he stated the election would be his last as party leader.

However, on 18 November 2018, Dean Barrow's Cabinet urged him to remain as Prime Minister of Belize until the 2020 Belizean general election.

Dean Barrow stood down from his House seat in Queen's Square in the 2020 general election, endorsing his sister, Denise "Sister B" Dean Barrow, to succeed him.

Dean Barrow has since then been involved in many high-profile cases.

The oldest, born Jamal Dean Barrow, is a former rapper who performed under the name Shyne.

Dean Barrow has since changed his name to Moses Michael Levi Barrow.

Dean Barrow was elected to the Belize House of Representatives with the center-right Belize United Democratic Party in the Belize City-based Mesopotamia constituency in the 2020 Belizean general election.

Dean Barrow practiced law out of her mother's firm and is an international patent attorney.

Dean Barrow was married a second time 7 February 2009 in Savannah, Georgia to his long-time girlfriend Kim Simplis.