From left: The St. Michael Parish Attendant, Julia Mapp, alongside 2016 Parish Ambassadors, Davianne Phillips and Jamon Edwards, after being presented to the congregation of St. Paul’s Anglican Church by the 2015 St. Michael Parish Ambassador, Kerri-Ann Bourne.
The St. Michael Parish Independence Committee (PIC) gathered at St. Paul’s Anglican Church, yesterday.
St. Michael PIC launches project and reveals ambassadors
Mon, 05/30/2016 - 12:00am
THIS year the St. Michael Parish Independence Committee (PIC) will celebrate the contribution of the village rum shops.
Under the theme “The Village Rum Shop … An Unsung Treasure”, the PIC will identify four shops in the parish that have been part of their respective communities for no less than 20 years.
“The village shop has over the years assisted many a family around St. Michael, by extending credit until payday. It has been a place to relax after a long stressful day at work or for some from a nagging wife at home… It has been a place to catch up on all the happenings in the village as well as around the country,” Treasurer Patsy Grannum told the congregation at St. Paul’s Anglican Church during the 2016 Project launch, yesterday.
The PIC will conceptualise and execute activities that reflect the role that such shops have traditionally played in the social life of those communities.
Parish Ambassadors, Davianne Phillips and Jamon Edwards, alongside Attendant, Julia Mapp, also shared the details of the project during the service.
According to Edwards, the PIC will also execute an activity that will bring some humanitarian benefit to the community in which they exist. He said these activities will include planning and distributing hampers to various households in selected communities around the parish.
Phillips further revealed that the Committee will co-ordinate activities that facilitate the dissemination of the history of the village rum shop in Barbados in general and the history of the identified shops – R.A. Mapp in Eagle Hall; Elma’s Bar and Grocery in Brittons Hill; Old City Bar in Palmetto Square, Bridgetown; and Corner Taitt in Chapel Gap, St. Barnabas.
Parish Ambassador Edwards, 24 years old, is enrolled at the Barbados Community College’s Associate Degree Programme in Culinary Arts. He joined the Parish Ambassador programme because as an individual he always strives to be constantly self-improving, to aim for excellence and to ultimately become the best he can be.
Phillips, 25 years old, is a Project Officer as well as a sales assistant at Sunbliss Boutique. She studied at the Barbados Community College and the University of the West Indies where she obtained a degree in Social Work with Upper Second Class Honours. Phillips said she joined the Parish Ambassador programme because she believes that you must be the change you want to see in the world. Therefore, it is important that she goes out there and exemplifies the changes and positivity she wants to see for the younger generation. (TL)