Herman Liburd Explained

Herman W. Liburd
Office1:Speaker of the National Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis
Primeminister1:Kennedy Simmonds
Term Start1:1980
Term End1:1983
Predecessor1:Ada Mae Edwards
Successor1:Ivan Buchanan
Birth Date:2 April 1941
Birth Place:Nevis
Death Date:12 April 2019 (aged 78)
Party:Nevis Reformation Party

Herman W. Liburd, JP, was a politician from Saint Kitts and Nevis.

Liburd was born in Nevis on 2 April 1941. He was a lawyer by profession, newspaper columnist, and legal advisor of the Nevis Island Administration.[1] He had law degrees from University of Toronto in 1973 and Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad and Tobago in 1978.[2]

Liburd was the Speaker of House of Assembly of Saint Kitts and Nevis and Anguilla from 1980 to 1983.[3] He led the legislature during the coalition of People's Action Movement and Nevis Reformation Party. Ivan Buchanan replaced him as the speaker, and Liburd became Nevis' solicitor general.

He died on 12 April 2019.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Government of St. Kitts and Nevis will accord an Official Funeral to the late Herman W. Liburd, Esq., J.P., who served as Honourable Speaker . NevisPages.com . en-CA . 1 May 2019.
  2. Web site: LiburdLaw - Herman W. Liburd (1941 - 2019) . www.liburdlaw.com.
  3. Book: Caribbean dateline. 1983. A. Day. 4–7.