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Clement 'Juni' Liburd (left) stands next to mother as she receives award |
Basseterre, St. Kitts (November 11 , 2004): Ms. Anne Liburd has been identified as a ‘Woman of Great Esteem’ and awarded for her contribution to the development of the women in the Federation of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Ms. Liburd is a well-known business woman and mother of several accomplished professionals in St. Kitts including Director of Broadcasting Mr. Clement Juni Liburd.
She was nominated by the Federation’s Ambassador to the United Nations Dr. Joseph Christmas.
Bishop Sylveta Hamilton-Gonzales, who was in the Federation for the Carib News Conference this past weekend, presented the award to Ms Liburd on behalf the Women of Great Esteem, an organization affiliated with the United Nations.
Bishop Gonzales said Ms. Liburd stands predominantly among women of the world as she is one of 100 women from 39 countries around the world chosen to receive this award.
She said Ms Liburd is a pioneer upon whose shoulders younger women will be able to stand and encouraged her to continue to fight the struggle so that future generations of women can have the life they deserve.
Ms. Liburd, a highly amusing lady throughout her lifetime, was thankful for the gesture and took the opportunity in her usual jocular manner to poke fun at her inability to attend the award ceremony which took place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York in 2001.
She said that due to terrorist attacks on the Untied Nations which took place shortly before her nomination for the award, she decided because of her age, not to undergo the stringent security measures put in place to keep terror groups such as the Taliban out of that country.
Ms. Liburd asked that her congratulations be conveyed to the other women chosen for the award.
The awardee, who spoke to SKNIS revealed that she represented the Federation during the Decade for Women declared by the U.N. from 1980 when she went to Mexico for the initial conference. She travelled to Denmark in 1985 for the mid-decade conference and to Africa for the final conference in 1990.
According to Ms. Liburd during that period she used the opportunity to voice her opinions at the highest international level in relation to the advancement of women.
She explained that prior to, during and after that conference she was proactive in addressing women’s issues.
