Ezekiel Bazil

Ezekiel Bazil is a key official of the United Workers Party (UWP). Born in 1965 in the village of Wesley, Bazil attended Wesley Primary Government School and Dominica Grammar School before finishing at St. Andrews High School. He also studied at the American Institute for CPCU or Insurance Institute of America and later at the Crawford Learning and Resource Center in Georgia.

He is an insurance expert and a specialist at property and casualty claims, liability claims adjustment, automobile appraisal, motor claims management, and fire losses. With over 20 years of experience working in the insurance sector, Bazil worked in Barbados and Antigua and then later in Dominica in various insurance fields.

He worked with American Life Insurance Company and Life in Barbados, Dom Waters in Antigua, Insurance Consultants Limited, McBreadston Foods (Perkys), The Resource Management Service, and First Domestic Insurance Company Limited.

His first foray into politics in 2009 was to contest the Wesley constituency seat in the House of Assembly. Bazil, however, lost the general election to Gloria Shillingford of the Dominica Labour Party (DLP) by 75 votes. But Opposition Leader Hector John made him a senator in 2010 and he was voted president of the UWP during the party’s convention in January 2012.

Bazil is married with four children.