Farmala Jacobs has been confirmed in the position of Executive Director of the Directorate of Gender Affairs.
Minister of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development, Youth and Gender Affairs, the Hon. Samantha Marshall made the announcement during her debate on the 2020 Budget in the Lower House of Parliament on Wednesday 6th February 2020.
Jacobs who was appointed as the Acting Director in July of 2015, holds a Bachelor’s in Science Degree from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus and a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the Walden University in Minnesota USA.
Minister Marshall publicly congratulated Jacobs and her team at the Directorate for the strides they have been making in their fight for Gender equality and Gender equity.
Meanwhile, Minister Marshall also announced the appointment of Mrs. Feona Charles-Richards as the Acting Director of the Family Social Services taking over from Ms. Alethea Byers, who took up the position in May of 2016.
Charles-Richards has served as Deputy Director and also the head of the Substance use Prevention Assessment and Rehabilitation Center (SPARC), formerly called the Substance Abuse Center.
Mrs. Charles-Richards holds a BSc in psychology and Sociology from the University of the West Indies Cave Hill and an MSc in Clinical Psychology, UWI Mona. She is a practicing Mental Health Practitioner with specialization in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) and Mental Emotional Release (MER).
Ms. Alethea Byers, former Director of the Family and Social Services Division will now serve as an advisor to the Minister on matters relating to child care and protection.
She holds a Master of Social Work degree specializing in Clinical Social Work from the University of the West Indies Mona Campus as well as a Bachelors of Science in Social work and Criminology also from Mona.
She’s certified in Social Services, counseling and Child rights and the point person within the Ministry for the Juvenile Justice Reform Project (JJRP). She has worked in the Probation Unit for the past 17 years and was appointed Principal Probation Officer in 2012.
Byers is also a consultant/facilitator for CARICOM and USAID/OECS.
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Meanwhile, the truly battered woman cries out cause it’s all about optics.
congrats to Farmala. I was beginning to wonder if you be nominated for an Oscar with all that “acting” they had you doing. I wish you much blessings and continued success. Stay focused and balance work with play.
Congratulation Farmala, well deserved my dear.
Notes From A Native Son Of The Rock! “Our revolution is not a public-speaking tournament. Our revolution is not a battle of fine phrases. Our revolution is not simply for spouting slogans that are no more than signals used by manipulators trying to use them as catchwords, as codewords, as a foil for their own display. Our revolution is, and should continue to be, the collective effort of revolutionaries to transform reality, to improve the concrete situation of the masses of our country.” ― Capitaine Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara, the Upright Man, Revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist, and assassinated President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987!
Congrats to all of these Phenomenal Women, Ms. Farmala Jacobs, Mrs. Feona Charles-Richards and Ms. Alethea Byers
No one in their “Right Mind” can deny The Excellent Abilities and Qualifications of these Women of Letters to Lead the Social Revolution, To Build Solid National Institutions and A Caribbean Civilization!
“African people should re-assert a sense of agency in order to achieve sanity.” – Dr. Molefi Asante, Afrocentricity: The Theory of Social Change! In this the International Decade for People of African Descent 2015 -2024, No need for WB or IMF Emissaries to advise this Minister that Leaders cannot be found in our midst after 386 years of Enslavement, 186 years of Emancipation, 69 years of Adult Suffrage, 53 years of Statehood, 39 years of Independence under VC Bird, Lester Bird and Baldwin Spencer and 6 undeniable years of political, economic, socio-cultural, technological, legal and economic growth under Gaston Brown!
Give Praise and Thanks to the Honourable Madame Marshall, Minister of Social Transformation, Human Resource Development, Youth and Gender Affairs!
“The Afrocentric paradigm is a revolutionary shift in thinking proposed as a constructural adjustment to black disorientation, decenteredness, and lack of agency. The Afrocentrist asks the question, “What would African people do if there were no white people?” In other words, what natural responses would occur in the relationships, attitudes toward the environment, kinship patterns, preferences for colors, type of religion, and historical referent points for African people if there had not been any intervention of colonialism or enslavement? Afrocentricity answers this question by asserting the central role of the African subject within the context of African history, thereby removing Europe from the center of the African reality. In this way, Afrocentricity becomes a revolutionary idea because it studies ideas, concepts, events, personalities, and political and economic processes from a standpoint of black people as subjects and not as objects, basing all knowledge on the authentic interrogation of location.” – Dr. Molefi Asante!
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