Bahamas Information Services Updates
Anniversary Celebrated of Women's Right to Vote During National Women's Week
Dec 3, 2015 - 4:49:05 PM



NASSAU, The Bahamas – During National Women’s Week, last week, the Bureau of Women’s Affairs of the Ministry of Social Services and Community Development organized a number of activities especially focused on Women and the Environment. 

To commemorate the day (November 26, 1962) when women in The Bahamas voted for the first time, the Minister of Social Services & Community Development the Hon. Melanie Griffin on November 26 celebrated the anniversary by inviting school students and the community to a screening of the video documentary, “Womanish Ways, Freedom, Human Rights and Democracy” – a documentary on the Suffrage Movement by Marion Bethel, presented in the Hearing Room of Aventura Plaza, where the Ministry of located. 

Photos show Minister Griffin addressing the occasion, and the audience of students and community persons.  (BIS Photos/Kemuel Stubbs)

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