WOMEN’S WEEK – Mrs. Lillian Quant Forbes, Deputy Director of Social Services, center, announces plans for the celebration of National Women’s Week on Grand Bahama. Pictured from left to right are: Ms. Patrice Johnson, Mrs. Quant Forbes and Mrs. Jacqueline Gray. (BIS Photo/Philip A. Curry)
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FREEPORT, Bahamas
– Deputy Director of Social Services
with responsibilities for Grand Bahama, Mrs. Lillian Quant Forbes announced
Wednesday the celebration of “National Women’s Week” on Grand Bahama.
At a press conference held at
their office in the Sun Plaza on West Settlers Way, the Deputy Director advised
that the Bureau of Woman’s Affairs is hosting a number of activities for the week,
Sunday, November 23rd to Saturday, November 29th.
The activities planned for
the week begin with a church service, Sunday, 23rd November, at
Agape House: A Call to Holiness Ministries, East Pioneers Way beginning at 9 a.m.
The Hon. Melanie Griffin,
M.P., Minister of Social Services and Community Development, will head a
delegation to Grand Bahama on Monday, November 24, to participate in a number
of events. The Minister is expected to
pay a courtesy call on the Minister for Grand Bahama, Dr. Michael Darville and
the two female Administrators on Grand Bahama, Mrs. Brenda Bullard Colebrooke
(West Grand Bahama District) and Mrs. Debra Cox Strachan (East Grand Bahama),
in addition to calling on the Chief Councillor for Freeport, Ms. Chervita
Campbell.
The Department will host a
special luncheon at the Ruby Swiss Restaurant on Monday as well as participate
in a radio talk show at Love 97, slated for 12 noon to 1.00 p.m.
Mrs. Quant Forbes also said
that in commemoration of the occasion a special showing of the video
documentary on the Women’s Suffrage Movement, “Womanish Ways, Freedom, Human
Rights and Democracy,” by noted writer and poet Mrs. Marion Bethel, will take
place at RND Theatres on Monday, November 24,from 10:00 a.m. to
11:30 a.m.
She advised that students
from the junior and senior high schools will participate in viewing the
documentary as the information will be beneficial to those who will sit the
Bahamas Junior Certificate Social Studies exam in June 2015.