12 Jun Peter Bailey Honored as a “VI Living Legend”

Someone asked me what the best part of this week’s #VILivingLegends Awards event. It most certainly is the fact that as my mother Anita Bailey turned 80 she knows what she poured into me wasn’t done in vain. She knows that the lessons that herself, my father Joseph Bailey and the other elders present that night taught me made me the man I am today. I’m thankful to fellow honoree Myron Jackson, his mother 95-year-old Bernice P. Jackson, Larry Sewer, Edney Freeman, Verne Hodge, Gilbert Sprauve, Jose Carillo, Sele Adeyemi and all those who came before me in helping to build the village that raised me. I’m just playing my part in the divine role assigned to me, because there’s no greater life than one defined by serving your community. This honor was very special to me, because our community decided, not some club or special interest group. I’m inspired to see us taking charge of our narrative and celebrating each other and I applaud the 175th Emancipation Commemoration Committee for understanding that we in the Virgin Islands are the light, so we don’t have to go looking for it. Let’s continue to illuminate the Caribbean and larger world as a whole. It’s a great time to be a Virgin Islander.