Scotilda Noel

Scotilda-Anne Noel was a Grenadian mother, landowner and businesswoman married to Vernon Selwyn Noel – a businessman, landowner, farmer, restaurateur and bakery owner. Scotilda was well respected for her dedication to her family, the New Jewel Movement and the civil manner in which she treated her fellow Grenadians. Her time and effort she spent in welfare matters and the development to women and the National Women's Organisation still lays testament to her cause for her country and people.

She supposedly died in a vehicular accident whilst returning home from a govenmental meeting held at the residents of Grenada’s then Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop.

A member of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) and National Women's Organization” (NWO) Prime Minister, Maurice Bishop first spoke of Scotilda in his "Freedom of the Press and Imperialist Destabilization" speech on 19 June 1981 and additionally honoured Scotilda in a speech given at the First Congress of the National Women's Organization in 1982 when he said: We salute today, comrades, the memory of Edith McBain, of Scotilda, of Laurice, Lorraine and Bernadette, and so many unknown and unsung martyrs and heroes who died in the cause of justice and freedom over the years.