By Admin. Updated 9:25 p.m., Sunday, February 23, 2025, Atlantic Standard Time (GMT-4).
Dr. Grace Walters, the former Administrator of the Milton Cato Memorial Hospital, has been selected by the Unity Labour Party’s North Windward Constituency Council to represent the party in the upcoming 2025 General Election.
Dr. Walters, who holds a PhD in Health Care Administration and Management, received this endorsement during a conference held by the Unity Labour Party North Windward at Sandy Bay Primary School on February 23.
Walters who was born in Sandy Bay, North Windward also holds two master’s degrees in Nursing (Family Practice) and Health Care Administration, and a Bachelor’s in Nursing.
There were no other candidates in the internal party race.
She was nominated by current Member of Parliament for the area Montgomery Daniel and endorsed by all delegates and the leadership of the ULP including Prime Minister Dr. Ralph Gonsalves.
Her candidacy will now be submitted to the Party’s Central Executive and National Council for ratification and approval.
Once approved, she will succeed Montgomery Daniel, the Deputy Prime Minister and current representative of the Unity Labour Party, who has held this seat continuously since March 2001*.
Dr. Walters will likely face the New Democratic Party’s Shevern John who unsuccessfully contested the seat in 2020. It was Mrs. John’s maiden appearance at the polls as a candidate.
The next general election in St. Vincent and the Grenadines is due by November 2025*, with an additional three-month grace period.
BACKGROUND (A Biography sent to us)
Grace Walters is a native of the village of Sandy Bay. Her early education was at the Sandy Bay Anglican School and the North Union Secondary School.
She entered the nursing profession in the year 1996 when she enrolled as a student nurse at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines School of Nursing, and was assigned to the Overland Health Centre two (2) weeks following the completion of her training, in April 1999. She served as the Staff Nurse of that facility until December 2000, when she left for training in the field of Midwifery, again at the St. Vincent and the Grenadines School of Nursing.
Following completion of the Midwifery programme in December 2001, she was assigned to the Georgetown Health Center and in the year 2002, was assigned to the Sandy Bay Health Centre, where she remained in service until 2006, when she left to pursue advance nursing education as a Family Nurse Practitioner.
On her return to the country in 2008, she was assigned to the Marriaqua Health District and served until July, 2010 when she was once again assigned to the Georgetown Health District. In this district, Grace served the communities of Fancy, Owia, Sandy Bay, Overland, Orange Hill, Chapmans, Langley Park, Dixon, O’Briens Valley, Spring Village, Caratal, Chili, Georgetown, Mt. Young, Chester Cottage, Byera, and Gorse.
As a health care professional, Grace has worked in the health care system for more than twenty-five (25) years.
As a Staff Nurse, her roles included the coordination and implementation of care and treatment for patients, families and communities through a number of activities, including home visits to the elderly and shut-ins. As a Midwife she was also responsible for management of the pregnant women, women in labour, and delivery of babies. As a Nurse Practitioner her responsibilities extended to the diagnosing and treating common conditions, and coordination of the School Health Programme.
She has planned and executed programmes that were aimed at contributing to the health of communities and groups within communities, and as such she successfully maintained Adolescent Groups, Diabetic and Hypertensive Groups, Men’s Health, Young Mothers support group and Alcoholics intervention group in the communities in which she worked. With these programmes, Grace coordinated community fairs, community health talks, and other out-reach programmes that included all members of the communities.
She served as president of the Georgetown Secondary School’s PTA for two (2) consecutive years, and during this period was able to implement a “homemakers” programme, (through the Adult and Continuing Education Unit) a programme that was geared at empowering young unemployed mothers of the PTA (and their friends) with skills to become less financially challenged.
In 2008 and in 2022, Grace chaired the committee to commence the development of a Nurse Practitioners’ protocol aimed at fulfilling the regulations for prescriptive rights for the practice of Nurse Practitioners throughout St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
In 2011, she also chaired the committee that coordinated the National march and rally for Diabetes in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
In March 2022, she became active in education of Nurses at the Masters level, teaching in the Masters of Science programme with the UWI, Cave Hill Campus.
She was the Hospital Administrator from 2013 to 2025 and a major part of the Management team of Hospital Services in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, a role that also affords her the privilege of contributing to policies for the advancement of health care in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Ms. Walters has served as a member of the General Nursing Council of St. Vincent and the Grenadines since 2015, and was appointed as Chairman in 2020. As such, she shares the responsibility of regulating the practice and maintaining standards of Nursing, Midwifery, Nurse Practitioners and Nursing Assistants in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
Her published work focuses on Management of Hospital Services and Addressing challenges in organizational structure of Hospital Management.
She was also a facilitator and teacher of the Sandy Bay Church of Christ Vacation Bible School during the summer holidays, and specifically applied for her vacation during this time so that she can be fully involved in this activity.
She considers her greatest achievement to be the success of the adolescents who were a part of her Adolescent groups.
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