La Celia Aritha Prince

Prince earned an LLB from the University of the West Indies in 1999 and her Legal Education Certificate from the Hugh Wooding Law School, qualifying as a lawyer in 2001.^[1]

At first, she practiced as a barrister-at-law and solicitor in St. Vincent and the Grenadines prior to earning a master’s studies in law at Cambridge University. In 2003, Prince took up a fellowship in multilateral trade negotiations and was assigned to the CARICOM delegation at the Secretariat of the Free Trade Area of the Americas in Puebla, Mexico for a short time at the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.^[1]

She first served in Washington beginning in September 2005, as minister counselor at the Embassy of St. Vincent and the Grenadines and alternate representative to the Organization of American States.^[1] She succeeded Fitzgerald Bramble as deputy chief of mission.^[3]

Prince stepped down as ambassador in July 2016 and joined the OAS. Lou-Anne Gaylene Gilchrist was appointed as her replacement.^[4]