Barbara Elizabeth Conolly is a

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politician from the People's Progressive Movement.

Education

Conolly graduated from the

University College of the Cayman Islands The University College of the Cayman Islands (UCCI) is a tertiary educational institution in the Cayman Islands. History The original Community College was established as a part-time institution in 1975, and was the first government-sponsored ...

Political career

She was first elected to the

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representing George Town South in the

2017 Caymanian general election General elections were held in the Cayman Islands on 24 May 2017. They were the first elections held after electoral reforms approved in a 2012 Caymanian electoral system referendum, 2012 referendum, which introduced single member constituencies. ...

and was re-elected in

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

. In 2019, Conolly was elected deputy speaker. In 2021, she stood again for speaker and deputy speaker but was not selected. In Parliament she is a member of the Public Accounts Committee and also Shadow Minister for Education and Social Development on the opposition benches.

Personal life

She has two children and two grandchildren.

References

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