Honours for Late Speaker, May 30 2013
Published on May 30, 2013 (1126)
The Cayman Islands honours the late speaker of the Legislative Assembly, Hon. Edna Marie Moyle, OBE, JP, with a ceremonial lowering of government flags, followed by the first ever lying-in-state at the Legislative Assembly on Thursday, May 30, 2013.
Honours for Late Speaker
The mortal remains of the late Hon. Edna Moyle, OBE, JP, who is a former House Speaker, Government Minister and legislator, lay in state in a Cayman Islands flag-draped casket in the Legislative Assembly Chambers today (Thursday, 30 May 2013).
It is the first time that the chambers have been opened up to the public for such a purpose. The lying-in-state took place between 10.00 am and 3.00 p.m.
After the casket was placed in the House this morning, members of the late Speaker's family led the viewing, followed by the new House Speaker, Hon. Juliana O'Connor-Connolly, JP, and the Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) headed by the Premier, Hon. Alden McLaughlin, MBE, JP.
The Deputy Governor, the Hon. Franz Manderson, Cert. Hon., JP, led civil servants paying their last respects.
The casket received full official honours and was guarded by a two-person team from the uniformed services.
On Saturday (1 June 2013), the official funeral for Mrs. Moyle starts with a procession from the Bodden Funeral Home at 11.00 a.m. It will traverse through the central precincts of George Town, before moving to North Side district for funeral services at 3.00 p.m. at the Clifton Hunter High School in Frank Sound. Interment follows in the late Speaker's family plot in North Side.
