Cuthbert Edwy Talma

{{Short description|Barbadian politician}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

|honorific-prefix = Sir

|honorific-suffix = KA

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|office= 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados

|term_start = 10 September 1971

|term_end = 2 September 1976

|primeminister = Errol Barrow

|predecessor = James Cameron Tudor

|successor = Harold Bernard St. John

|birth_date = {{birth date|1909|12|22|df=y}}

|birth_place = British Windward Islands (now Grenada)

| death_date = {{Death date and age|1994|08|05|1909|12|22|df=y}}

| death_place = Barbados

}}

Sir Cuthbert Edwy Talma, KA (22 December 1909 – 5 August 1994 ) {{Cite web |title=Edwy Talma |url=https://www.totallybarbados.com/articles/get-around-barbados/roundabouts/edwy-talma/ |access-date=13 July 2022 |website=Totally Barbados |language=en-US}} was a Barbadian politician who served as the 2nd Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados from 10 September 1971 to 2 September 1976 under the Errol Barrow administration.{{Cite web |title=Caribbean Elections {{!}} Cabinet of Barbados – Errol Barrow Administration 1971 -1976 |url=http://www.caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/parliament/bb_parliament/bb_cabinet_barrow_1971.asp |access-date=13 July 2022 |website=caribbeanelections.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220511064832/http://www.caribbeanelections.com/knowledge/parliament/bb_parliament/bb_cabinet_barrow_1971.asp |archive-date=11 May 2022 }} He also served in the first ministerial government under Premier Grantley Herbert Adams where he held the post of Minister of Agriculture, Lands and Fisheries from 1954 to 1956 and from 1961 to 1963. Initially he was part of the Barbados Labour Party but left in 1957 for the newly formed Democratic Labour Party.{{Cite web |title=Edwy Talma |url=https://www.totallybarbados.com/articles/get-around-barbados/roundabouts/edwy-talma/ |access-date=16 January 2024 |website=Totally Barbados |language=en-US}}