Candidate for the Castle Bruce Constituency

Bernard Wiltshire was born on the 22^nd day of November, 1947 in Montin, Grand Bay.   Bernard was schooled and raised in Castle Bruce from age 3.  There, he attended the Castle Bruce primary school, and later moved on to the Dominica Grammar school.  Bernard then went on to University of York and University of London in England, and later to Columbia University in New York where he pursued law.

Whilst in England Bernard served as deputy political leader of the Inner London Education Authority (ILEA).  He has served as UWI Extra Mural Resident Tutor and is the founder of the Waitukubuli National Trail and the Waitukubuli Ecological Foundation (WEF).  Bernard was one of the initiator of the Cuban Scholarship and Medical Doctors’ Programme.   He has served as Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Dominica and is practicing attorney and head of Bala-Congoree law chambers.

Bernard heeded the call to serve his people a long time ago.  

Some of his significant accomplishments in the Castle Bruce area are:

• The initiator of Creole in the East, San Sauveur Fisheries, the Good Hope Progressive Force and the Good Hope Resource Centre. 

• Pipe borne water to some 200 households from parts of Good Hope, Morpo, Dis Pas, Tranto, Wind Blow (Castle Bruce) and the Mustard Seed Bakery.

• Provided the first set of computers (26) for the Castle Bruce Secondary School

• Street lights installed in central meeting places in Dix Pas

• Light up the basketball court in Goo-Gloo

• Reconstructed the Elmshall Road

• Secured $12 million in 2001 for the Soufriere-Rosalie road

• Sponsor of the Castle Bruce Football team in the 1980s and present sponsor of the Good-San Football team.  

• Fund raiser for Sukrose Band (Petite Soufriere), Blazing Squad (Grand Fond), Earth Vibes (Dix Pax), and Genesis Gospel (Castle Bruce). 

 Friend of the people, our natural environment, and resources, tireless fighter for human rights and poor.