Former deputy prime minister of Barbados speaks during Women’s Month
Billie Miller
The activities of Women’s Month are aimed at highlighting the achievements and contributions of outstanding women. And it is in keeping with that objective that the National Women’s Commission, in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), is bringing Dame Billie Miller to speak at two events this month. Miller is the Former Deputy Prime Minister of Barbados and also served in the capacity of a Senior Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade. She has also done extensive work addressing population issues with Planned Parenthood through the UNFPA. The Women’s Commission calls Miller a “transformational leader” and “political trail blazer”, which makes her the perfect speaker for the two events, which Executive Director for the National Women’s Commission, Ann-Marie Williams, told us about.
Ann-Marie Williams, Executive Director, Natl Women’s Commission
“Billie Miller comes into Belize later this month for two events sponsored by the National Women’s Commission and one of them in collaboration with UNFPA. Firstly, she comes as the guest speaker for the first Women In Politics graduation which takes place on the twenty-fourth of March at ten in the morning at the Best Western Biltmore Plaza. Last year I’m sure you can remember that we started out in October with fifty-four women in this project. We’re proud to be graduating fifty of them.”
Ann-Marie Williams
“And then in the evening at seven at the Bliss there’s a public forum and that’s the Women’s Commission’s contribution to Women’s Month. The forum will be on the theme for Women’s Month “Celebrating Achievements, Overcoming Challenges, Breaking Barriers” and I couldn’t think of somebody who is more fitting to talk about those three areas as Billie Miller, she’s seen it and done it all. She’s very politically savvy and she’s a woman of the world and she has lots to impart. I feel it’s a great opportunity for especially students—we’re inviting everyone—but especially students and young women because often times we don’t expose our young women enough to people who are achieving or have achieved and I’m speaking about women. When you do that you give them an opportunity to see what they too can do. They start to imagine the possibilities and if you can do it then I can do it. And it’s that type of thing that we want to do while we impart a great deal of knowledge Wednesday evening at the Bliss.”
The public forum at the Bliss starts at seven p.m. on March twenty-fourth and is free of cost to attend.
