Minister of Business Development and Tourism for Bermuda

The Premier of Bermuda, the Hon. Paula A. Cox JP, MP, appointed the Hon. Patrice K. Minors, JP, MP as Bermuda’s Minister of Business Development and Tourism on Monday, November 1, 2010. The Ministry of Business Development and Tourism sees the return to Cabinet of Mrs. Minors, who will be tasked with heading the development and growth of the Island’s existing twin economic pillars: International Business and Tourism.
Minister Minors was one of the first Progressive Labour Party (PLP) Government Senators. She became a Member of Parliament in the 2003 General Election. After her election she was appointed Minister of Health and Family Services, a position which she held until October 2006. Minister Minors brings a wealth of knowledge of and experience in the International Business sector with her most recent being that of Assistant Vice President of Trust Services at Butterfield Bank.
Minister Minors was educated in Bermuda at Berkeley Institute and Howard University in Washington, DC, where she earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees in Business Administration. A member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, she has served on several boards, including as Deputy Chairman of the Bermuda College Board of Trustees, the Bermuda Small Business Development Corporation Board and as Chairman of the Immigration Board. She is also a past President of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Bermuda and was voted “Big Sister of the Year” in 1998.
A member of the First Church of God North Shore, Devonshire, Bermuda, she is married and mother of a wonderful daughter.