Bernadine A. Louis was Governor’s final nominee with wholehearted support!
Mr Rankin, who now seems to be unpopular with residents of the Virgin Islands, has been labeled a “racist and dictator” by talk show host and political activist Cindy Rosan, after he sparked outrage from all sections of the local population with his other two nominees, which he allegedly bullied his way to have them remain on the CRC, according to the sources.
Who are these two?
The other two controversial nominees are Jamaican national Tanya Cassie-Parker and Caucasian American national Susan V. Demers, who both have belonger status.
Some residents claimed that Mrs Cassie-Parker wanted the Virgin Islands constitution to be suspended following the release of the Commissioner of Inquiry report, while others accused Ms Demers of being a ‘racist’ who does not have the best interest of the people of the Territory at heart, however, our news center, could not independently confirm those claims.
One nominee by Mr Rankin, who was met with unanimous approval by both the Government of National Unity and Cabinet, was Ms Louis who is the daughter of former Legislator, Cyril Lewis Walters and his late wife – former Educator, Lucia Walters nee Potter.
An Indigenous Virgin Islander -Ms. Louis
Ms Louis, a Virgin Islander, has years of experience at the management level while employed in the civil service.
She served for 27 years as a government officer in a number of positions, including the Assistant Chief Librarian of the Library Services Department for a few years, then became the Chief Librarian/Director of Library Services for over 11 years.
Ms Louis, a fifth-generation Virgin Islander, was also a senior officer in the Ministry of Education and Culture where she was an Assistant Permanent Secretary, Ag. Deputy Permanent Secretary, and also served as Ag. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education and Culture and Ministry of Health for brief periods when the substantive Permanent Secretaries were on vacation leave.
Her last position in the Government of the VI was that of Private Secretary to the Minister for Education and Culture. She retired from the Government Service to take up senior positions at the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College where she held the posts of Director of the Learning Resources Center from 2007 – 2012, and Dean of Workforce Training from 2012 – 2019.
Educated & well qualified
She currently holds the position of Director of the VI Studies Institute – a research institution responsible for all matters on the history, culture, and contemporary issues about the Virgin Islands. Ms Louis has also lectured in public administration for the Open Campus of the University of the West Indies.
Ms Louis’ training is wide and varied. She holds a Certificate in Public Administration, a Certificate in E-Government (both from the University of the West Indies), Two Bachelor’s degrees (Library Science and Administration from UWI and Brock University in Canada), A Master’s degree in Business Administration, and Master’s level certification in Project Management respectively (Wright State University in Ohio, USA and Laval University in Quebec, Canada), in addition to commencing her Doctoral Studies in Adult Education.
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30 Responses to “Bernadine A. Louis was Governor’s final nominee with wholehearted support!”
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I dont know the jamaican lady and i do believe that a cross section of people should be on this committee, but the American lady should absolutly not be on it. i cant speak personally of her racist inclinations , but i have heard of such. she is absolutly not reoresentative of a good cross section of our beliefs in the territory. she needs to be withdrawn and replaced. we have plenty of great local legal minds who can fill those shoes.
but keep an eye on the UK because she looking money please do not let UK manipulate the future of this country…….
even the UK close pals scotland and Wales seeking to pull away from Buckingham Palace therefore be very watchful off the documents we create and the clauses
What does this have to do with the BVI?
If we don’t stand up to and recognize racism, while the governor involved us by flying the UKrainian flag meanwhile Ukrainians are being forcibly conscripted and sent to their deaths, over racially rooted political posturing a direct result of neocolonial White supremacy refusing to accept global equality. Real talk no bs.
Then it’s obvious we have let our ancestors down who existed in a state of perpetual suppression of truth, culture and language. Our ancestors did not come from Africa speaking English French Spanish nor did they come here seeing the world the way the colonizers did. It was beaten into them.
Censorship of human culture, language & human cooperation based on race is utterly vile with no place in a post African, and Native American colonized world.
They smashed temples in South America stole gold burned native books and now wish that information was available to learn about past peoples. After killing them. A sickness they have not remedied. Had their job been completed we would not have known of the Mayan calendar.
It’s seriously disturbing & sad that these supreme sovereign countries have not matured since the days of slavery, ‘savages’ propaganda and the belief that black people have no soul.
The racism is not directed toward us now so we should support it? No way.
They can wage a war without all this racism or involving little BVI in their sanctions mess.
It begs the question what have they in store for us as obviously that type of racist perspective has not been grown out of & discarded, instead it’s simply redirected (for now) and diluted (for now).