Shirley Osborne

Shirley Osborne is a politician in Montserrat. She was Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Montserrat between September 2014 and October 2019.[1] She is the daughter of the late John Osborne, a former Chief Minister of Montserrat.[2]

Osborne trained as a teacher and in 1995 received an MBA from Simmons School of Management.[3][4] She has served as Executive Director of the Women’s Resource Centre in St Peters.[3]

In 2016, Osborne and a friend, hiking in a wooded area near Soldier Ghaut (a seasonal streambed) in the northwest area of the island, discovered nine petroglyphs, known as the Soldier Ghaut petroglyphs.[5][6][7]

References

  1. ^ "Miss Shirley Osborne elected new Speaker of the Montserrat Legislative Assembly". Government of Montserrat. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  2. ^ "PDM names LegAss Speaker". Montserrat Reporter. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Caribbean Elections Biography | Shirley Osborne". www.caribbeanelections.com. Retrieved 19 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Shirley Osborne".
  5. ^ "Hikers on Caribbean island of Montserrat find ancient stone carvings". the Guardian. 3 June 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2022.
  6. ^ Cherry, John F.; Ryzewski, Krysta; Guimarães, Susana; Stouvenot, Christian; Francis, Sarita (June 2021). "The Soldier Ghaut Petroglyphs on Montserrat, Lesser Antilles". Latin American Antiquity. 32 (2): 422–430. doi:10.1017/laq.2020.102. ISSN 1045-6635.
  7. ^ "Hikers Discover Ancient Petroglyphs in Montserrat". Backpacker. 17 June 2016. Retrieved 18 October 2022.


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