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Governor General Froyla Tzalama officially presented Casiana Lind with the Dame Minita Gordon Scholarship to study at Galen University in Cayo on Thursday, October 21, 2021.
Dame Minita Gordon
Galen University has announced its Dame Minita Gordon Scholarship to commence in September 2021. In an official press release, Galen University informs that the full academic scholarship is created in honor of the late Dame Minita Gordon, Belize’s first Governor-General.
Throughout her career, Dame Minita Gordon distinguished herself as a primary school teacher, teacher educator, and Education Officer. She was also Belize’s first fully qualified psychologist, having earned her doctorate in Applied Psychology from the University of Toronto.
The Dame Minita Gordon Scholarship will be awarded every two years to a young Belizean woman of outstanding scholastic achievement and financial merit who is transferring from a junior college into Galen’s Secondary Education program.
Jan 21, 2021
Stanley Lizama
Former Governor-General Doctor Dame Minita Gordon was laid to rest on Wednesday at the Lord Ridge Ceremony. While her sendoff was stately, she was not always treated with the respect and dignity deserving of her position. In fact, in her retirement, she was often seen around Belize City, where others who did not know her would make fun of the elderly woman. It is part of the neglect that was experienced when she retired to private life. There was no pension set aside for her then, and there still is none set aside for Governor-General Sir Colville Young now. As described by Prime Minister John Briceño, it is a blight – one his administration is prepared to correct. Doctor Gordon’s longtime friend Stanley Lizama shared an unfortunate incident with the media.
The last three days in Belize were observed as days of mourning in honor of the passing of the country’s first and the Commonwealth’s first female Governor General, Doctor Dame Minita Gordon. She passed away on January 1, 2021 in Inglewood, California at the age of 90 to cancer. On Monday, January 18, 2021, her body was flown to Belize and arrived at the Phillip Goldson International Airport. A number of high ranking officials from Belize were there to meet her casket which was draped in the Belizean flag and received by the Government of Belize including the current Governor General of our country Sir Colville Young, the Prime Minister, and Leader of the Opposition Hon. Patrick Faber.