Brathwaite is an attorney-at-law of over thirty years of practice. He worked in the
British Virgin Islands for ten years before returning to Barbados. He was elected to
Parliament as MP for Saint Philip South in the
2008 election. He was named Attorney-General and Minister of Home Affairs in July 2010, to replace
Freundel Stuart who had been elevated to acting
Prime Minister and served until 2018. He is presently the principal of Horizon Chambers which he founded in 2005 and is managing director of Horizon Corporate Management Inc., a licensed corporate service provider registered in Barbados. Brathwaite has been involved in the financial management for international business clients for the last thirty years. Brathwaite grew up in
Marchfield,
Saint Philip Parish. He did his primary education at St Martins Primary (now Reynold Weekes Primary) and his secondary education at
Harrison College. He went on to the
University of the West Indies for his
LL.B, and then earned his
Legal Education Certificate from the
Hugh Wooding Law School. ==References==