THE BIOGRAPHY OF DAME PEARLETTE LOUISY

9 Facts about St Lucia’s new Governor General

Saint Lucia has a new Governor General for the first time in 20 years.

The government announced that Mr Emmanuel Neville Cenac has been appointed and has been approved by Her Majesty The Queen. He is set to take the Oath of Office at an Installation Ceremony on Friday, January 12, 2018.

Cenac’s appointment has been politically controversial. Here are 9 facts about the new Governor General:

1. Cenac served as a member of parliament for Laborie.

2. Cenac is the brother of Saint Lucia’s third elected prime minister, Winston Cenac, who served from 1981–1982.

3. Cenac was once Leader of the Opposition Saint Lucia Labour Party.

4. Cenac crossed the floor to the United Workers Party in 1987. This resulted in the UWP moving from a 9-8 majority to a 10-7 majority.

5. Cenac said that ‘broken promises’ resulted in his crossing the floor.

6. Cenac served as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 1987 to 1992.

7. Cenac retired in 1992 but returned to serve as President of the Senate from 1993 to 1997.

8. Cenac will be the seventh person to occupy the role of St Lucia’s Governor General.

9. Cenac successfully sued the government in 2003 to reclaim his pension that was ceased in 1993. The judgment came in 2006.

Pearlette Louisy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Her Excellency Dame Pearlette Louisy GCSL, GCMG, DStJ, PhD, LLD (Hon)
Governor-General of Saint Lucia
In office 19 September 1997 – 31 December 2017
Monarch	Elizabeth II
Prime Minister	Kenny Anthony John Compton Stephenson King Allen Chastanet
Preceded by	George Mallet
Succeeded by	Neville Cenac (Designate)
Personal details
Born	Calliopa Pearlette Louisy 8 June 1946 (age 71) Laborie, Saint Lucia
Alma mater	University of the West Indies Laval University University of Bristol

Dame Calliopa Pearlette Louisy GCSL, GCMG (born 8 June 1946) was the Governor-General of Saint Lucia from 1997 to 2017. She was the first woman to hold this office, into which she was sworn on 19 September 1997,^[1] and resigned from on 31 December 2017.

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• 1Biography
• 2Honours
  • 2.1National Honours
  • 2.2Commonwealth Honours
  • 2.3Papal Honours
• 3See also
• 4References
• 5External links

Biography[edit]

Born in the village of Laborie,^[2] Louisy attended the Laborie Infant School and Primary Schools. In 1960 she proceeded to the Saint Joseph's Convent on the Javouhey Scholarship. In 1966, a year after the completion of her secondary education she was awarded the Canadian International Development Agency(CIDA) scholarship to pursue a Bachelor's Degree in English and French at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados.^[1]

In 1972, she was awarded the Canadian Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan to pursue a M.A. degree in Linguistics, in the field of Didactics at the Université Laval in Quebec City, Canada. In 1991, she proceeded to the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom, where she read for a Ph.D. degree in Education.^{[citation needed]}

Louisy has contributed significantly to the development of Education in Saint Lucia, having spent most of her professional life in the teaching profession. During the periods 1969–72 and 1975–76 she taught at the St Joseph's Convent. From 1976 to 1986, she served as a tutor of French, and was subsequently appointed as Principal of the St. Lucia A Level College. When the A Level College and Morne Technical School merged into the Sir Arthur Lewis Community College, she first served as Dean, and was subsequently appointed as the Vice Principal and Principal of the College.^{[citation needed]}

In 1999 Louisy was awarded the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LL.D.) by the University of Bristol.^[1] On 16 July 1999 she was appointed Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.^[3] In 2011, she received an Honorary Doctor of Laws (LLB) from the University of West Indies.^[1]

Honours[edit]

National Honours[edit]

•  –  Saint Lucia : Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Lucia (GCSL)

Commonwealth Honours[edit]

•  –  United Kingdom : Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (GCMG)
•  –  United Kingdom : Dame of Grace of the Most Venerable Order of St. John (DStJ)^[4]

Papal Honours[edit]

•  –   Vatican City : Dame of the Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great (DSG)^[5]