Bentley Royer

Julien Bentley Royer was born in Salisbury village in 1955. He finished from the Teacher’s Training College in Dominica and also did the City and Guilds examination in Jamaica in 1993. He was a teacher and taught auto-mechanics at Goodwill Secondary School before serving as a board member of the Salisbury Credit Union.

Bentley Royer joined politics under the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) and contested for the Salisbury constituency seat of the House of Assembly in 2009. But he lost the election to Hector John of the United Workers Party (UWP). Following his loss, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit appointed him as a senator in February 2010.

But when the UWP boycotted the House of Assembly, Hector’s seat was declared vacant and Royer resigned his position as senator to contest the vacant seat in a by-election. But he lost again for the second time to Hector in July 2010.

Royer is married with five children.