The Honorable Kerrie Drurard Symmonds, M.P. is an attorney-at-law and has been called to practice at the Bar of Barbados and the Bar of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States.

In addition to being a general litigation practitioner, Mr. Symmonds also is an international trade law practitioner and has maintained an extensive practice offering consultancy services in this field to a number of member states across the Caribbean region.

Additionally, Mr. Symmonds also has been retained as legal expert/team leader for a series of CARICOM-coordinated and internationally funded trade and competitiveness assessments, which were designed to identify and advise upon the most effective manner of removing restrictions to and impacting upon the movement of services, goods, capital, skills, and rights of establishment in the implementation of the Caribbean Single Market and Economy.

In a similar vein, Mr. Symmonds provided consultancy services to assist in the technical implementation phase of the Economic Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the CARIFORUM member states.

Mr. Symmonds has now been a member of the legislature of Barbados for seventeen years, having served in both legislative houses. Between 2003 and 2008, Mr. Symmonds served in the cabinet of Barbados as minister of state in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, and as a member of Parliament.

Between 2013 and 2015, he served as leader of opposition business in the Parliament of Barbados. Between May 2018 and July 2020, he was minister of tourism and international transport. From August 2020, he served as minister of energy, small business, and entrepreneurship in the Government of Barbados. In 2022, Mr. Symmonds was reappointed to the Cabinet as minister of energy and business development, and was elevated to the position of senior minister with responsibility for the productive sectors.