Colville Young

Sir Colville Norbert Young, GCMG, MBE, ( born November 20, 1932) is a Belizean politician and currently the Governor General of Belize.

He assumed the office of Governor-General in 1993 by his predecessor Elmira Minita Gordon and was defeated in 1994 knighted.

Young studied at St. Michael 's College in Belize and graduated as BA at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica and his doctorate in linguistics in York. Colville Young was a founder of the Liberal Party, which merged in 1973 with two other parties to the United Democratic Party. In the 1980s, he became president of the University College of Belize. In 1993, before his appointment as Governor-General, he published a book of short stories under the title Pataki Full.

  • Author
  • Politicians (Belize)
  • Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George
  • Member of the Order of the British Empire
  • Born in 1932
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Governor-General of Belize United Democratic Party (Belize)
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