Former British High Commissioner to Bangladesh Anwar Choudhury, who was attacked during his tenure here, has been appointed as the new governor of the Cayman Islands.
The 58-year-old Bangladeshi-born British diplomat will take up the post in March 2018 after the term of incumbent Governor Helen Kilpatrick expires, reports Cayman Compass.
According to the report, Kilpatrick’s contract was supposed to end in this September but it was extended until March 2018 to accommodate Anwar’s appointment.
Cayman Island is a British Overseas Territory. It encompasses three islands in the western Caribbean Sea.
Anwar is currently Her Majesty the Queen’s Ambassador in Lima and was previously British High Commissioner in Dhaka, Bangladesh, The Cayman Reporter said.
He was also the Assistant Director of the Ministry of Defence and has worked as a strategist for the Royal Air Force.
Militants of Harkat-ul Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh (HujiB) carried out a grenade attack on Anwar during a visit to the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal in Sylhet on May 21, 2004.
Anwar was injured and three others were killed in the attack took place took place during the former British envoy’s term here.
The mastermind of the attack, HujiB leader Mufti Hannan, and his two close aides, Sharif Shahedul Alam Bipul and Delwar Hossain alias Ripon, were hanged on April 12 this year.
Anwar, who came to Britain as a child, was the country’s first senior high commissioner from an ethnic minority background.
Thursday, June 04, 2026
