A casual drive around New Providence will reveal the placement of many large posters by the Independence Cultural Commission to honour the contribution of female Bahamians to the development of their country. This is a wonderful effort by the Independence Cultural Commission.
I find it curious, even though I cannot claim to have seen all the posters, that not a single white woman is included in the island-wide display. Some white women who could have been considered include Elizabeth "Betty" Cole (sports), Nicki Kelly (news reporter), Marie Murray (work with female prisoners), Eileen Carron (newspaper editor and business woman), June Maura (public service and historic preservation), Lynn Gape environmental protection), Lynn Holowesko (former Senator and environmental protection), Catherine Benjamin (public service and national development), and Betty Kenning (business woman).
Michael Craton has written in his contribution to The General History of the Caribbean that the contributions of white Bahamians are being written out of the history of the Bahamas. Perhaps this effort to honour Bahamian women by the Independence Cultural Commission, though inadvertently, may be an example of what Mr Craton wrote about.
This effort to honour women is a laudable one, but should include women of all creeds and colours.
A BAHAMIAN
Nassau, Bahamas
[Editor's Note: We found it disgraceful that Maggie Pindling, a drug dealers moll, would be 'honoured' for her contributions to 'civil rights'.
