Elvin G. Nimrod (27 August 1943 – 6 February 2021) was a

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from the island of

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. He served in the

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as Parliamentary Representative for

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, and has in the past served as Deputy Prime Minister, and

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, International Trade, Legal Affairs, Labour, Local Government, Carriacou and Petite Martinique Affairs and Attorney General. Nimrod attended the Hillsborough Government School in Carriacou, then later the Grenada Boys Secondary School. Elvin later migrated to the

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, where he attended Brooklyn College, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in political science. He then attended the

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, where he obtained a Master of Arts degree in criminal justice. He culminated his academic pursuits by attending

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, where he obtained a Juris Doctor (JD) degree. After a number of years practising law in

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and Grenada, he entered the Grenada political arena in 1997, when he became a member of the

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. Two years later, in 1999, he was elected on a New National Party ticket, becoming the Parliamentary Representative for Carriacou and Petite Martinique—a designation he held until his retirement from frontline politics just before the 2018 general elections in Grenada.

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