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Francine Baron

Francine Baron
Francine Baron

Francine Baron is the daughter of Dominica’s first Chief Minister Frank Baron and granddaughter of a member of the Legislative Council, A.A. Baron. The Legislative Council later metamorphosed into the present-day House of Assembly, but A.A. Baron served in the council from 1925 to the early 1930s. Frank Baron was the Chief Minister of Dominica from 1960 to 1961.

Francine Baron is a politician under the Dominica Labour Party (DLP). She attended a convent school and state college before going to the UK in 1991 to attend the Holborn School of Law. In 1995, she was admitted to the Bar of England and Wales as a Member of the Middle Temple Inns of Court. She returned home to Dominica in 1996 and joined de Freitas & de Freitas Chambers as an associate attorney and by 2005, she became the President of the Dominica Bar Association.

Francine Baron was appointed as the Attorney-General of Dominica by the PM Roosevelt Skerrit administration in 2007 and she served in that capacity from 2007 to 2010. In 2012, she served as Dominica’s High Commissioner to the UK and met with Queen Elizabeth to present her credentials. She was High Commissioner to the United Kingdom from 2012 to 2014. Baron equally served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs and served on the CARICOM team. It must be pointed out that she also worked hard towards the creation of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Economic Union Treaty.

A fearless politician, Baron in 2017 condemned the interference of the Organization of American States (OAS) in the general elections of member states. She particularly hinted at the OAS interference in the politics of Venezuela during a conference in Mexico; and in 2019 she made it abundantly clear in Washington DC that OAS would not be invited to monitor the December 6 general elections in Dominica.

In March 2020, CARICOM Chairman Mia Mottley, prime minister of Barbados, appointed Baron and three other persons to constitute CARICOM’s High-Level Team to monitor elections in Guyana. The other three members of the team are former Minister of Finance of Grenada, Anthony Boatswain; Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government of UWI, Cynthia Barrow-Giles; Chief Electoral Officer of Barbados, Angela Taylor; and Chief Elections Officer of Trinidad and Tobago, Fern Narcis-Scope.