National Co-ordinator of the Community Independence Celebrations, Curtis Gibbons,
receiving the cheque from Group Human Resources Manager of Goddard Enterprises Ltd., Lianne Fingall, yesterday morning.
GEL sponsors Community Independence Celebrations
THE Goddard Enterprises Limited (GEL) has donated Bds$10 000 to the Community Independence Celebrations Secretariat to sponsor the launch of this year’s celebrations.
Speaking at the small ceremony, which was held at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Youth yesterday morning, Group Human Resources Manager at GEL, Lianne Fingall, said that the group was proud to be once again sponsoring this year’s official opening ceremony.
Curtis Gibbons, National Co-ordinator of the Community Independence Celebrations, revealed that the mandate for this year’s formal ceremony was to highlight persons who had gone through their programme as well as persons that emulate the communities across the island.
Gibbons explained that every year the launch of the Community Independence Celebrations moved around from parish to parish and disclosed that this year, the official launch will take place in St. Philip, at King George V Park, on May 13 at 7 p.m.
He noted that the ceremony will officially reveal this year’s Parish Independence Committees, Attendants and Parish Ambassadors. “The Ambassadors, Parish Independence Committees (PICs) and Attendants would have been chosen earlier this year and they would have been working hard to get their projects off the ground and getting the community to know who they are and what they would be doing this year,” he said.
Gibbons noted that the ambassadors would have gone through a training session and retreat at the Hilda Skeene Primary School and was confident in the fact that this year’s chosen parish ambassadors were ready to take on this task for the duration of the year.
Gibbons went on to briefly note that the day before the launch, they plan to host a special cricket match between the St. Philip Parish Committee 11 and the Community Independence Celebrations 11 at the Hilda Skeene Primary School at 7 p.m., which Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth, Stephen Lashley, is expected to attend. Gibbons invited everyone to come out and enjoy the event.