(L to R): Dominic Kemp, Facilities at the GB Children’s Home; Elkenny Lockhart, Retiree of Northern Region Public Service; Laurie Bullard, Chairperson of Northern Region Public Service Month Planning Committee; Enzy Jones, Assistant Administrator at Grand Bahama Children’s Home; Sheila Johnson-Smith, Executive Committee Board of Grand Bahama Children’s Home; Sandra R. Smith, Member of Northern Region Public Service Month Planning Committee; Latoya McPhee, Judiciary Department; Donna Bastian, Post Office; and Dorothy King-Rolle, Department of Immigration and John Fraser, Public Hospitals Authority. (BIS Photo/Vandyke Hepburn)
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FREEPORT, Grand Bahama – Three charities in Grand Bahama, on Tuesday,
were the recipients of non-perishable food items from the Northern
Region Public Service Month Planning Committee and the Ministry of
Public Service.
In a presentation at the Department of
Immigration Laurie Bullard, chairperson of the planning committee, said
during the month of October, the Northern Region Public Service
celebrated its 15th Annual Public Service and Recognition of Retirees
Month. The celebration was held under the theme, “Charting the Course,
Serving the Nation, Securing the Future”.
Among the
activities hosted to celebrate the month was a food drive. This was held
among the various public officers from all of the Ministries and
Departments represented on Grand Bahama who were invited to donate
non-perishable food items to be donated to local charities.
She
said, “today, we are pleased to announce that the food drive has been a
tremendous success and wish to thank all Heads of Government Ministries
and Departments, public officers and quasi-government agencies who
participated to help make the project a success.”
Ms. Bullard
further stated it was all with the objective of ‘Charting the Course,
Serving the Nation, Securing the Future’ for our Precious Pearls, the
elderly who have made their contribution to society and charted the
course for us to be here today, and [for] ‘our precious gems’ the
young.”