36 Facts About Ewart Brown

Ewart Brown represented Warwick South Central as a Member of Parliament from 1993 to 2010.

Premier Ewart Brown was elected leader of the ruling Progressive Labour Party on 30 October 2006, defeating incumbent leader and Premier William Alexander Scott, at a PLP delegates conference.

Ewart Brown was the seventh leader of the Progressive Labour Party and the third leader of that party since winning the 1998 general election.

Under his leadership, Ewart Brown pledged to take Bermuda to the next level and to "lead Bermuda to greater health, happiness and prosperity for all of its people".

Since leaving office, Ewart Brown has returned to his medical practice as founder and Executive Chairman of Bermuda HealthCare Services and Ewart Brown-Darrell Clinic.

Ewart Brown was charged with on 13 counts of corruption in January 2021.

Ewart Brown's mother was a member of parliament for the United Bermuda Party, as was his aunt, Gloria Juanita McPhee, who became Bermuda's first female cabinet minister.

Ewart Brown attended the public Central School in Pembroke until the age of 11, after which he attended Berkeley Institute.

Ewart Brown eventually was sent by his parents to live with an aunt in Jamaica, where he excelled in sports, particularly cricket and track and field, while attending St Jago High School in Spanish Town, eventually representing that school in the 440-yard dash.

Ewart Brown's sporting achievements led him to university in the United States of America.

The University of Illinois offered him a scholarship, but Ewart Brown chose instead to attend Howard University, a historically black university in Washington, DC In 1966, he represented Bermuda at the Commonwealth Games, reaching the second round of the 400-yard dash.

In 1968, Ewart Brown led a coalition of Howard University campus political organizations in a successful five-day takeover of the school's administration building.

Ewart Brown decided to continue his education and become a doctor.

Ewart Brown remained in Los Angeles, acquiring US citizenship and opening a medical practice, the Vermont Century Medical Clinic, in 1974.

Ewart Brown alleged that the powers that be deliberately gave him a failing grade for political reasons.

Ewart Brown eventually received his license to practice in 1988, and set up Bermuda Healthcare Services in 1990, returning to the island permanently in 1993.

Ewart Brown became a director for the Marcus Garvey School, a K-8 school in Los Angeles, which named him Humanitarian of the Year in 1991.

Ewart Brown is a former member of the Board of Directors of Marina Hills Hospital in Los Angeles, California; a former member of the California State Commission on Maternal, Child and Adolescent Health; and a founding Commissioner of the Board of Prevention Commissioners for South Central Los Angeles Regional Centre for Development Disabilities.

Ewart Brown has been honored for his service to medicine and for his humanitarian and philanthropic efforts.

Ewart Brown was recognized twice by Howard University's College of Medicine for distinguished service to the college.

Ewart Brown received the Physicians Recognition Award in 1977 from the American Medical Association; the Grassroots Health Award from the Sons of Watts California in 1979; the Dubois Academic Institute's Community Leadership Award in 1982; the Pacesetter Award from the NAACP in 1984; Humanitarian of the Year Award from the Marcus Garvey School in Los Angeles in 1991; and in 1993, the Scroll Award from the Union of American Physicians and Dentists.

At the urging of then-PLP leader L Frederick Wade, Brown returned to Bermuda and became involved in local politics in 1993 to run as a candidate for the Opposition Progressive Labour Party.

Ewart Brown finished only two votes behind Edness, unseating Sharpe by 14 votes.

In Opposition, Ewart Brown first served as Shadow Minister for Youth and Sports and in 1995 became Shadow Minister for Human Affairs.

Ewart Brown was appointed the PLP's first Minister of Transport by Premier Jennifer Smith.

Ewart Brown introduced a number of reforms, including the completion of the oppositions plan for the replacement of the island's obsolescent ferries with faster, 205-seat catamarans, the Serenity and the Resolute, in 2002.

In 2004, Ewart Brown clashed with the US Consulate over what was alleged to be a "gross violation" of security at the Bermuda International Airport, when he was said to have avoided security screening procedures.

Ewart Brown denied the claim, and criticized the consulate for making the issue public.

Ewart Brown resigned on 28 July 2003, and following a special leadership conference of the PLP, William Alexander Scott was elected as leader of the party and premier.

Ewart Brown was elected as Deputy Leader of Party and Deputy Premier of Bermuda.

On 2 November 2007, following the reading of the Throne Speech by Governor John Vereker, Premier Ewart Brown set 18 December 2007 as the date for Bermuda's general election.

In June 2009, Ewart Brown announced that he had secretly made a deal with the United States to accept four of the Uighurs, who arrived on the island over-night, on humanitarian grounds; he promised to make them Bermudian nationals.

Ewart Brown initially stated he only intended to serve one term as premier and announced to a party conference in October 2008 that he intended to step down as party leader and premier in October 2010.

Ewart Brown was succeeded as leader of the PLP on 28 October 2010 by Paula Cox and in a by-election held on 14 December 2010 was succeeded as MP for Warwick South Central by PLP MP Marc Bean.

Ewart Brown owns two medical clinics, Bermuda Healthcare Services in Paget Parish and the Brown-Darrell Clinic in Smith's Parish, which could receive more than $1.2 million from taxpayers as compensation for the cuts in fees for medical scans imposed by the One Bermuda Alliance administration in 2017, said to be contrary to the advice of the Bermuda Health Council.

Ewart Brown was charged on 13 counts of corruption in January 2021.