Daisy “Wong” Richardson.
ANGUILLA--The Executive Council has announced a National Funeral for the late Daisy “Wong” Richardson at St. Mary’s Anglican Church in The Valley, on April 14.
Richardson was awarded the Anguilla Badge of Honour and Queen’s Certificate for her contribution during the Anguilla Revolution. She is noted for her bravery in travelling secretly to St. Kitts along with her cousin Mena Bryan, toward the end of the Revolution in order to nominate an Anguillian for the Anguilla seat in the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla State elections. She was also one of the leading women who demonstrated against statehood and one of the leading female voices for separation from St. Kitts.
Daisy Wong, as she is known, was born in 1921 at Junks Hole Estate and lived at the family home in The Quarter. She documented the diversities of life in Anguilla through poetry and is well known as the author of “Li’l Bit A Guinea Corn Porridge” published in 1997 to commemorate 30 years since the Revolution. In 2016 at the Malliouhana Poetry Competition she was awarded a plaque for her involvement in the literary and cultural development of the island.
All Government flags are to be flown at half-mast on Friday, April 13, and Saturday, April 14, as a mark of respect for her.
