Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Madame Yonette Decina Cummings-Edwards leads the list of National Awardees for 2017. She will be conferred with the prestigious Order of Roraima – the second highest national award in Guyana. She is one of 31 women who are being awarded national awards for their sterling contributions to Guyana over the years.
Madame Justice Edwards who was sworn in to her current post on March 28, 2017, boasts an illustrious legal career that commenced in 1988. She served as a Judge at the Court of Appeal of Guyana for several years and was the second woman to be appointed to the position of Chancellor.
Another female of similar caliber, Acting Chief Justice, Madame Alison Roxanne Mc Lean George, is being awarded the Cacique Crown of Honour.
Madame Justice McLean was admitted to the Bar in October 1990, and served as a Senior State Counsel, Assistant Director of Public Prosecution, Deputy Director of Public Prosecution and Director of Public Prosecution.
That award was will also be given to Secretary General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin La Rocque.
For her contributions to marine conservation and mangrove replanting projects in Guyana, environmental activist and pilot, Annette Arjoon-Martin will receive the Golden Arrow of Achievement.
Other recipients of this award includes; Secretary General of the Guyana Red Cross Society, Ms. Dorothy Fraser; Chief Librarian of the University of Guyana, Ms. Gwyneth George; Veteran Journalist, Ms. Julia Ann Johnson; General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU), Ms. Coretta McDonald; Veterinarian, Dr. Karen Pilgrim; and veteran educator, Ms. Gem Ann Rohlehr.
Veteran Journalists, Mr. Enrico Woolford, Ms. Julia Johnson and Mr. Adam Harris, Artist and Sculptor, Mr. Winslow Marcellous Craig, and Human Resources Management and Organisational Development Specialist, Ms. Sandra Jones will also receive the Golden Arrow of Achievement. Another veteran journalist, George Barclay, has been awarded the Medal of Service.
The President has since said that the conferring of national awards is recognised as a mechanism, provided under the Constitution of Guyana to give due national recognition to outstanding citizens. The regular conferral of national awards is a commitment which was made by President Granger upon his ascension to executive office in May of 2015.
Since then, 51 Guyanese women have already been conferred with national awards. In 2015, 19 women from a total of 53 received national awards. The Order of Roraima was received by one person; three received the Cacique’s Crown of Honour (CCH); seven received the Golden Arrow of Achievement (AA); five received the Medal of Service (MS) and three received the Disciplined Service Medal (DSM).
In October 2016, a total of 32 women received awards. That year, a total of 86 individuals were conferred with awards. Additionally, 12 groups were conferred with the Medal of Service insignia on the occasion of Guyana’s 46th Republic Anniversary in February, earlier in 2016.
SEE FULL LIST OF AWARDEES BELOW:
Order of Roraima
1 Yonettte Decina Cummings-Edwards
Cacique’s Crown of Honour
1 Alison Roxane Mc Lean George
2 Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith
3 Moeenul Hack
4 Irwin La Rocque
5 Murtland Raphael Massiah
Golden Arrow of Achievement
1 Ramsay Ali
2 Annette Arjoon-Martin
3 Lloyd Fitzgerald Austin
4 Everette Lancelot Carberry
5 Rhoda Amelia Stephne Clarke
6 Winslow Marcellous Craig
7 Jose Louis Da Silva
8 Jennifer Dewar
9 Dorothy Fraser
10 Gloria Regina Fraser
11 Ameena Gafoor
12 Samuel Jaidatt Goolsarran
13 Gwyneth George
14 Adam Elias Harris
15 Hilton Gregory Hemerding
16 Sandra Hooper
17 Julia Ann Johnson
18 Sandra Valerie Jones
19 Raymond Mark Kirton
20 Hemraj Kissoon
21 Doris Ann Lewis
22 Tota Charran Mangar
23 Hyacinth Gloria Massay-Thomas
24 Julie Andrea Matthews
25 Coretta McDonald
26 George Gladstone McDonald
27 Ann Elizabeth McLennan
28 Marie June Mendes
29 Abena Nkenge Moore
30 Cecil Norman Murray
31 Vibert Virnen Parvatan
32 Jawahar Persaud
33 Karen Pilgrim
34 Andrew Godfrey Proctor
35 Khakan Ally Ramjohn
36 Gem Ann Rohlehr
37 Sonya Indira Roopnauth
38 Pradeep Parmanand Samtani
39 Godfrey Steve Statia
40 Barbara Patricia Thomas-Holder
41 Desmond Trotman
42 Patrick Everton Williams
43 Enrico Mortimer Woolford
44 John Carlson Yates
Medal of Service
1 Sandra Michelle Adams
2 John Andries
3 George Rupert Barclay
4 Erma Hyacinth Bovell
5 Camille Patricia Carrington
6 Patrick Nigel de Groot
7 Denise Dias
8 Merlene Ellis
9 Joan Anges Fredericks
10 Heeralall Makhanlall
11 Jenevieve Jenny Murray
12 Julio Perreira
13 Ryan Perreira
14 Emelda Sandy
Military Service Medal
1 Lt Col Lawrence Anthony Fraser
2 Lt Col Ramkarran Doodnauth
Disciplined Services Medal
1 Assistant Commissioner of Police Nigel Anthony Hoppie
2 Acting Director of Prisons Gladwin Andrea Samuels
3 Deputy Chief Fire Officer Winston
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