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‘Patsy C. Lake deserving of Festival honour’ – Andrew A. Fahie
He made the comments while on the side-lines of the opening ceremony for Festival 2015 at the Patsy Lake Festiville in Road Town on Monday July 27, 2015.
“Tonight I celebrated with Mrs Patsy C. Lake as the 2015 Road Town Festival Village is named in her honour: Patsy Lake Festiville 2015. Mrs Lake has been a cornerstone in many respects in the celebration of Festival in the BVI for well over 30 years plus,” he said.
“She is also one of our national Icons as she was part of the Positive Action Movement which was led by the late but great Noel Lloyd. They put their lives on the line to fight to get Wickham's Cay back into the hands of the people of the Virgin Islands after the then Government of the day had practically given it away to foreigners,” he said.
“I commend all involved who had a hand in naming the 2015 village after Mrs Patsy Lake,” said Honourable Fahie.
More accolades for Lake
Earlier in the night, many accolades came Mrs Lake’s way from Chairperson of the Virgin Islands Festival and Fairs Committee Kishma A. Baronville and also from Minister for Education and Culture Honourable Myron V. Walwyn all of whom lauded Lake for her work over the years, not only in the field of fashion and culture but in the areas of business and real estate.
“Tonight I am pleased to extend congratulations to Mrs Patsy Lake. Mrs Lake has long been an active participant in Festival. She has been a mainstay in the parade for many decades and like everything else she does her troupes bring a flair of beautiful art to the parade. She continues to support the development of Festival as recent as 2014 when she served as a member of the 60th anniversary committee,” Honourable Walwyn said. He added if it were not for persons like Lake they would not be standing on “these very grounds.”
Mrs Lake, as many would know, was one of the driving forces behind the Positive Action Movement March of 1968, the group that was credited with saving large portions of Wickhams Cay and Anegada from getting into the hands of a white developer from the United Kingdom.
Alongside the Virgin Islands’ Martin Luther King- Noel Lloyd, Mrs Lake and others successfully opposed the British developer Kenneth Bates’ Wickhams Cay and Anegada development projects in 1968.
Mr Bates had planned exclusive luxury leisure projects which excluded Virgin Islanders, with the granting to him of a 199-year lease to reclaim land on Wickhams Cay and his desire to control three quarters of Anegada.
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She spoil herself talking sh*t about dr smith to get ting name off he
her own way. That's what she should be honored for.