Shirley Osborne is a

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in Montserrat. She was

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of the

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between September 2014 and October 2019. She is the daughter of the late

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, a former

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. Osborne trained as a teacher and in 1995 received an MBA from Simmons School of Management. She has served as Executive Director of the Women’s Resource Centre in St Peters. In 2016, Osborne and a friend, hiking in a wooded area near Soldier Ghaut (a seasonal streambed) in the northwest area of the island, discovered nine

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, known as the Soldier Ghaut petroglyphs.

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