Former president of Dominica, Nicholas Liverpool passes on

Nicholas Liverpool, who served as Dominica’s sixth president from October 2003 to September 2012 died earlier this week. He was 80 years old.

Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has led the nation in paying tribute to the former head of state.

Skerrit said that Liverpool’s “death has robbed us of a most revered ambassador for and of this country”.

“Dominica is very much the poorer, with the death today of former President, His Excellency, Nicholas Liverpool. Dominica has lost a cherished son.I, personally, have lost a friend and mentor,” Skerrit said.

Liverpool served as senior lecturer and Dean at the Faculty of Law at the Cave Hill campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) and was also a judge of the High Court in Antigua & Barbuda and Montserrat and Appeal Court judge in Belize, the Bahamas and Grenada.

He also served as the Dominica’s ambassador to the United States.

The prominent jurist was also the author of numerous articles and papers and last year, the government renamed the new highway leading to the airport in his honor.

He, was awarded Dominica Award of Honor in 2003.

Liverpool is survived by his wife, Verna and five children. -(CMC)