Former Member of Parliament for the La Plaine Consitutency under the Dominica Freedom Party (DFP) administration, Heskeith Andrew Alexander, has died.
He was elected as MP for three consecutive terms and served in a number ministerial portfolios.
He passed away in the United Kingdom.
Heskeith Alexander was born at Delices on 1st December 1942.
He was educated at the Delices Government School and the Dominica Grammar School.
He emigrated to England as a young man and lived and worked there for ten years.
He attended the Post Office Engineers Training School in London and worked as a technician with the London Telephone region.
On his return to Dominica, he turned to farming and became deeply involved in community work in the south-east.
He attended a course in Co-operative Management at the St. Augustine Campus of the University of the West Indies in Trinidad. His work with co-operatives also took him to the Labour College in Barbados and the International Centre for Technical and Vocational Training in Turin, Italy.
His work for the people of Delices, Boetica, La Plaine was well recognised particularly as Chairman of the Delices Village Council.
Alexander was also Chairman of the Eastern District Association of Village Councils, Chairman of the farmers Co-operative, Chairman, Library and Cultural Group and Treasurer of the Church Council.
He was District Manager of the Bay Oil Co-operative. He was a keen sportsman and promoter of sports in Delices. He was married and was the father of three children.
He contested the July 1980 general elections for the Dominica Freedom Party and was elected as representative of the La Plaine Constituency.
Alexander served as Minister of Agriculture, Lands, Fisheries and Co-operatives and after 1985 as Minister for Community Development, Housing and Social Affairs.
Blessed uncle who was Divinely inspired in his works. May he Rest in Blessed and eternal Peace
Mr. Heskeith Alexander was a hard working and decent individual who cared about the people in the La Plaine constituency who sent him to Parliament. He was a very mature and honest politician of the highest moral and ethical character.
He did not seek to enrich himself or anyone while serving. He fully embraced the notion and reality that he was first and foremost a public servant to advocate for our people along the south eastern Atlantic coast.
We can only long for those nostalgic days.
May his soul RIP.
Thanks
Emanuel Finn, Washington DC
he was a great guy
I do remember Mr. Alexander as a minister of government. Bananas were doing well when he was Minister of Agricultura although, of course, there were issues as always. The last time I encountered him was at his home. I also met him when he was serving as president of an organisation that was taking care of the severely disabled in the eastern part of Dominica. He welcomed the group of which I was part and gave us a tour of the facility where the people were housed. My sympathy to his son Ian and the rest of his family.
R. I. P., emotional news is that?
May you rest in Eternal Peace Mr. Alexander. You will greatly be missed by your family and friends.
so sorry to hear this… he was a great man…
Heskeith Alexander was my mentor, lead and mold me to be whom I am today.