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Karl Hood

Grenadian politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ6371912 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ignatius Joachim Karl Hood, known as Karl Hood, is a politician from the island nation of Grenada. He served as an MP, Minister of Labour, Social Security and Ecclesiastical Affairs (2008–2010) and as Minister of Foreign Affairs (2010–2012) in a government led by former prime minister Tillman Thomas. He resigned as Minister of Foreign Affairs on 18 May 2012 after he abstained from a no-confidence vote against the government two days earlier. He currently serves as Grenada's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Karl Hood” is grenadian politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Karl, Hood and Grenadian, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008, 2010, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Karl, Hood and Grenadian is the immediate research focus.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6371912. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008, 2010 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karl Hood” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.