Independent Senator Alphea Margot Wiggins says her new position is a testimony to how far women have come in earning political positions.
Wiggins, the outgoing deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, was sworn in yesterday at Government House, Pine Hill, St Michael, 117 days after the other six Independent senators took their oaths of office on Monday, June 4.
Yesterday, after the brief ceremony, Wiggins said: “It is a privilege to be chosen by Her Excellency[Governor General Dame Sandra Mason] to serve.
“And over the years, the number of women in key positions has been increasing. Women, in general, have been taking leading roles here in Barbados, but we women are coming of age,” she said.
General secretary of the Barbados Workers’ Union (BWU), Toni Moore, attorneys-at-law Monique Taitt and Kevin John Boyce, Reverend Michael Bruce St John Maxwell, Lindell Elon Nurse and Christopher Maynard were the other Barbadians selected by the Governor General to be Independent senators. (SB)
