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Naming and Opening of Paul L Adderley Building dubbed Red Letter Day
By Lindsay Thompson, BIS
Jun 28, 2014 - 12:03:58 PM

The Minister of Labour and National Insurance and Minister of the Public Service the Hon Shane Gibson bringing remarks at the official opening and naming of the Paul L Adderley Building on Friday, June 27, 2014, on John F Kennedy Drive. (BIS Photo/Patrick Hanna)
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NASSAU, The
Bahamas – The official opening and naming of the Paul L Adderley Building on
Friday, June 27, 2014 was deemed another red letter day by the Minister of
Labour and National Insurance and Minister of the Public Service the Hon Shane
Gibson.
“Indeed, upon
receiving its mandate to lead the Bahamian people, this Government pledged to
continue to honour its outstanding heroes in memorable and lasting and
meaningful ways,” he said.
Mr. Gibson
delivered remarks at the historic ceremony in front of the building on John F
Kennedy Drive, which houses the Office of the Attorney General and Ministry of
Legal Affairs.
Prime Minister,
the Rt Hon Perry Christie, who envisioned and fully supported the honour,
officially opened the building. Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs
the Hon Allyson Maynard-Gibson also gave remarks. The Prayers and Act of
Dedication were performed by The Most Reverend Drexel Gomez, Assistant Bishop
of the Anglican Diocese.
Amongst the list
of dignitaries and invited guests were Dame Marguerite Pindling, Cabinet
Ministers, Senior Government Officials, Parliamentarians and family members
including Mr. Adderley’s widow Lilith, and daughters Catherine and Paula.
Paul L Adderley
was the longest serving Attorney General – appointed on July 10, 1973 and
served until 1989. He also served in the
Cabinet, the Senate and House of Assembly, as Deputy to the Governor General
and as Acting Governor General. He died on September 19, 2012.
“Paul Adderley
was a phenomenal man - a nation builder who had the distinct honour of serving
in a number of leadership capacities including that of being our independent
country's first ever and longest serving attorney general, in addition to
serving over a period of years as a cabinet minister and parliamentarian,” Mr.
Gibson said.

The official opening and naming of the Paul L Adderley Building on Friday, June 27, 2014, located on John F Kennedy Drive. Pictured amongst guests and dignitaries out front are the Rt Hon Perry Christie, Prime Minister; Minister of Minister of Labour and National Insurance and Minister of the Public Service the Hon Shane Gibson; Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs the Hon Allyson Maynard-Gibson; Dame Marguerite Pindling, Deputy to the Governor General; Mrs. Lilith Adderley, widow of the late Paul L Adderley; and daughters Dr Catherine Adderley and Paula Adderley. (BIS Photo/Patrick Hanna)
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The government
has previously honoured other nation builders with etching their names on
buildings namely, the Lynden Pindling International Airport, the Clifford
Darling (NIB headquarters), Carlton E Francis Primary School, and most recently
the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium, where the country hosted the successful
IAAF World Bahamas Relays 2014.
Others received
honours the Randol Fawkes Labour Day, and the re-named 12 October as National
Heroes Day.
“It is now truly
a great honour and privilege for me to join with the government and the people
of The Bahamas to honour the late Honourable Paul Lawrence Adderley – another
great Bahamian. And we do so today in the same fashion as we have in previous
years for other distinguished leaders of this country,” Mr. Gibson said.
Recalling his
personal time with the late Paul Adderley, Mr. Gibson revered him as a friend
and mentor who counselled and guided him.
“Indeed Paul L.
Adderley was a man of incredible achievements. It is my hope that through this
ceremony, present and future generations of Bahamians will be inspired to serve
their communities selflessly, honourably, and with distinction and pride.
“In fact, we
need more individuals like Mr. Adderley - men and women, young and older, who
are fully dedicated to sacrificial service of country and who display remarkable
courage and tenacity for the challenging times in which they live,” Mr. Gibson
said.
He quoted former
Prime Minister Pindling who said: “Leaders, we must not forget, do not make
themselves. They are made instead by the
people they lead, by the people who believe in them and by the people who are
prepared to follow them, not out of fear, or because it may be the in-thing to
do, or because of some hypnotic spell, but because deep down there is a faith
that moves them to lift us up to a height above their own…”
Paul L Adderley
was such a leader who pointed the way forward and guided Bahamians into the
future, Mr. Gibson said.
“A leader to
whom we should all be grateful. I am certainly grateful and I pledge to
continue the Government’s mandate in the ways that I can to remember our
national heroes,” he said.
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Remarks by Labour, NIB and Public
Service Minister the Hon. D. Shane Gibson at the opening and naming of
the PaulL. Adderley Building
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Remarks by Prime Minister Christie O
fficial opening and naming of the Paul L. Adderley Building (OAG)
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