BASSETERRE, St. Kitts, Jun 28 2015 – St. Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Timothy Harris on Thursday met with Baroness Patricia Scotland, candidate for the post of Commonwealth Secretary General.
At the beginning of her visit, Baroness Scotland paid a courtesy call upon the Governor General, Tapley Seaton. She also met with the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mark Brantley and the Attorney General, Vincent Byron.
Prime Minister Harris said he was delighted to have met with Baroness Scotland whom he described as being very well informed. The Prime Minister further said that her visit was very enlightening.
In addition to meeting with several Government officials Baroness Scotland also met with some former Parliamentarians including the Nation’s first Prime Minister Dr. Sir Kennedy Simmonds, the former Deputy Prime Minister and current UN Ambassador, Sam Condor, and the first woman elected to Parliament, Constance Mitcham, a former Minister of Health and Women’s Affairs.
Baroness Scotland who is currently visiting the twin island Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis, has described her visit as “very productive” and “truly enjoyable”. She was particularly touched that Sir Kennedy fondly remembered her father, Arthur L. Scotland a former Antiguan Cricketer of note.
Baroness Scotland, the first woman to ever hold the post of Her Majesty’s Attorney General of England, Wales and Northern Ireland, is the Candidate of the Government of Dominica.
Baroness Scotland was born in the Commonwealth of Dominica to a Dominican mother and an Antiguan father. Her parents moved the family of 10 children from Dominica to England, like many Caribbean people of the day, in search of opportunities for tertiary education.
The former CARICOM Deputy Secretary General, Lolita Applewhaite, accompanied Baroness Scotland on her visit.
