KINGSTOWN, St Vincent (AP) - A policewoman has dropped a rape claim against St Vincent's prime minister, more than seven months after a prosecutor cleared him of allegations he attacked the officer when she was assigned to guard his home.

The 36-year-old policewoman had accused Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of raping her on January 3 at his estate in this eastern Caribbean nation.

Colin Williams, director of the public prosecutor's office, determined her claim to be groundless a month later, but she pressed on with a civil suit.

That ended with a Tuesday court filing, in which the policewoman's attorney Jaundy Martin said his client wanted to drop her claim immediately. The document gave no other details and Martin could not be reached for comment.

Court documents show that Martin took over the officer's case last week, shortly after the policewoman fired her original defence team.

Gonsalves has vehemently denied the allegations and could not be reached for comment Tuesday. He has governed the string of islands, home to some 120,000 people, since 2001.

Another St Vincent woman who now lives in Canada filed a separate sexual assault complaint against Gonsalves earlier this year. Prosecutors dropped that case weeks later.

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