Shereen Flax-Charles
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Shereen Flax-Charles | |
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| Junior Minister for Trade and Economic Development of the British Virgin Islands | |
| Assumed office 26 November 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Sharie de Castro |
| Member of the House of Assembly of the British Virgin Islands | |
| Assumed office 25 February 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Party | Virgin Islands Party |
Shereen D. Flax-Charles is a British Virgin Islands politician. She is an At-large representative for the House of Assembly of the British Virgin Islands, a position that she has held since the 2019 general election. She is the current Junior Minister for Trade and Economic Development.
Flax-Charles is the daughter of Norma and Andy Flax, who own the Fischer's Cove Beach Hotel in Virgin Gorda.[1] Her sister, Sharon P. Flax-Brutus, serves as director of tourism for the British Virgin Islands and her niece, Sasha D. A. Flax, is the Sister Island coordinator.[2] She is a calypsonian who goes by the name Queen Shereen and signs for the band "It's a Secret".[3] She was the first runner-up in the Calypso Monarch competition in both 2015 and 2016.[4] She worked for nearly twenty years as Sister Islands Tourism Development Manager and Projects Manager for the BVI Tourist Board.[3]