The Hon.

Dame Jennifer Smith, DBE, JP, DHumL

The first Bermuda Progressive Labour Party Premier

The first elected female Premier of Bermuda

The first Progressive Labour Party Minister of Education

The first female Deputy Speaker of the House of Assembly

The first Bermudian Vice Chairman of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA)

Date: Thursday, 28th of May 2015

Time:

Dame Jennifer M. Smith, DBE, JP, DHumL

The Hon. Dame Jennifer Smith, DBE, JP, DHumL, led the Bermuda
Progressive Labour Party to two general election victories on November
9, 1998 and July 24, 2003. Her service to Bermuda and its people was
recognized in the June 2005 Queens Birthday Honours, when she was
made a Dame Commander of the British Empire (DBE).
The letters DHumL behind her name stand for Doctor of Humane Letters and indicate the three Honourary Degrees which she has received
from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh (her alma mater), Pittsburgh, USA;
Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and Mount Saint Vincent
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Dame Jennifer is the recipient of many other awards, including the Woman of Great Esteem
award from Q-Kingdom Ministries, New York, USA; and a special award
from the National Congress of Black Women, Inc., Washington, D.C.,
USA.

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Dame Jennifer has proven time and again, the importance of persistence during the seventeen years (1972 to 1989) and six attempts that
it took her to win election in the Constituency of St. Georges North;
which she changed from a United Bermuda Party (UBP) stronghold to a
Progressive Labour Party (PLP) stronghold. (The change to a single seat
constituencies has seen St. Georges North become a Marginal constituency.)
Dame Jennifer has gained a wealth of experience in her thirty -one
years (December 1980) as a Parliamentarian. The youngest women ever
to run in a general election when she made her debut in 1972 (four
years after universal adult suffrage was implemented) . Dame Jennifer
served as an appointed member of the Upper House, the Senate, for
nine yearsduring which time she established herself as an effective
and articulate spokesperson for the PLP and earned a reputation for
diligence and the rest is history

East End Primary School Auditorium

6 Grenadier Lane, St. Georges, GE 03

P ROGRAMME

Mistress of Ceremonies

Mrs. Sherri Simmons

Welcome

Mr. Raoul Ming

Opening Prayer

Pastor Lorne K. Bean,

Richard Allen AME Church

Musical Selection

Ms. Rickeesha Binns

Presentation of Speaker
Speaker

Ms. Gaynet Edwards

P RESENTATION

OF

A WARDS

Comments/Remarks

Dame Jennifer M. Smith, DBE,

J.P., DHumL

Vote of Thanks

Senator Renee Ming, J.P.

A WARDEES
Jailyn Boddington and Naji Bean
East End Primary School

Maximilian Santiago and Saneyah Richardson

St. Georges Prepatory School

Ruth Mello and Zyon Minors

St. Davids Primary School

Amara Bartram and Kyesja Jones

Clearwater Middle School

Dame Jennifer M. Smith Future Leader

2014
Jade Smith and Keith Whorms, East End Primary School
Amon Cannonier and Asia Fubler, St. Davids Primary School
Zephaniah Trott and Noldre Brown, St. Georges Preparatory School
Alyssa Fox, Jayquan Dill and Isaiah Camara, Clearwater Middle School
2013
Jacari Renfroe, East End Primary School
Matthew Mello Cann and Nature Symonds, St. Davids Primary School
Atiya Furqan and Sage Carter, St. Georges Preparatory School
Chanara Smith-Rookes and Stephan NKeulu, Clearwater Middle School
2012
Sitaysia Simons and Zahn Richardson, East End Primary School
Zakiya Simmons and Nakal Goater-Price, St. Davids Primary School
Larissa Simmons and Leo Harris, St. Georges Preparatory School
Taiyana Allen and Vance Wall -Brown, Clearwater Middle School
2011
Alys Webber and Xavier OConnor, East End Primary School
Kyesja Jones and Isaiah Camara, St. Davids Primary School
Rickie Williams and Nasir Simmons, St. Georges Preparatory School
Asante Chapman and Malik Alick, Clearwater Middle School
2010
Kadaisha Fox and Tyreese Cheeseman, East End Primary School
Chanara Smith-Rookes and Ezekiel Swan, St. Davids Primary School
Keiasa Desilva and De-Roger Hollis-Trott, St. Georges Preparatory School
Jasmyn Renfroe and Corey Outerbridge, Clearwater Middle School
2009
Zenawi Bowen and Alea Whorms, East End Primary School
Tariq Basden and Brianna Adams-Thompson, St. Davids Primary School
Satori Anderson and Tahje Taylor, St. Georges Preparatory School
Lateef Trott and Shaunte Young, Clearwater Middle School
2008
Sinae Smith and Kyle DeRoza, East End Primary School
Dominique Burgess and Cameron Neal, St. Davids Primary School
Satori Anderson and MaQuille Walker, St. Georges Preparatory School
Kameron E. Creighton and Rokeyah Brown, Clearwater Middle School
2007
Tammisha Pearman and Rayjaun Seymour, East End Primary School
Lorina-Le Harvey and Ardon Heyliger, St. Davids Primary School
Kayla Smith and Tyler Pitcher, St. Georges Preparatory School
Fredricka Hill and Shomari Warner, Clearwater Middle School