A LIFE OF SERVICE - POWERFUL WOMAN OF OUR SOIL -DAME BILLIE The first female member of Cabinet in Barbados; Minister of Health and National Insurance; Minister of Education – later Education and Culture; Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade; Minister of Tourism and International Transport; Senator and Leader of Opposition Business; Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Deputy Prime Minister . Read more, no one will have to cobble up a legacy for her, a true life of service to country and to the world. • Member of the Council of the University of the West Indies (1981-1986) • Chairman of the NGO Planning Committee for the International Conference on Population and Development which was held in Cairo, Egypt in 1994 • Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (1996-1999) – the first time a woman has been chairman since its establishment in 1911. • President of the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Western Hemisphere Region (1991-1993, 1993-1995, 1995-1997) • Member of the International Planned Parenthood Federation/Central Council, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. • Member of the United Nations Population Funds Advisory Panel for Activities Concerning Women • Member of the Inter-American Dialogue • Chairman of the Inter-American Development Bank’s Advisory Council on Women in Development in Washington (1996-2002) • The first woman Chairman of the Caribbean Tourism Organization (1997-1998) • President of the African, Caribbean and Pacific States Council of Ministers (1998) • Chairperson of the Association of Caribbean States’ Ministerial Council (2000-2001) • Vice-Chairperson of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group (2000-2002) • President of the 32nd Regular Session of the General Assembly of the Organization of American States (OAS) held in Barbados (2002) • Vice Chairperson in the bureau of the Chair of the Sixth WTO Ministerial Conference held in Hong Kong, China (2005) • President of the Board of Directors of the Inter-American Parliamentary Group on Population and Development for the Caribbean and Latin America (1999-2006)
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