The Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court today announced the conferment of the prestigious honour of Dame Commander in the Order of the British Empire upon The Honourable Chief Justice Janice Mesadis Pereira by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her sterling contributions on facilitating the advancement of justice.
An announcement in the London Gazette on 7th May 2013 states, “THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give orders for the following appointment in the Most DBE to be an Ordinary Dame Commander of the Civil Division of the said Most Excellent Order The Honorable Mrs. Justice (Janice Mesadis) PERIRA, Chief Justice of the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court.”
The DBS is one of the five classes (in civil and military divisions) of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) established on 4th June 1917 by King George V. The Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (DBE) (counterpart to Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (KBE) is the second in seniority of the classes and allows (but not prescribes) the postulant to use the title “Dame” before her first name.