Roger Goodwill 🇯🇲 🇻🇦 🇺🇸 🇩🇴

@wcchen @LowrieChin Commendable. No kids?

Mavis Gwendolyn Gilmour-Petersen, born 100 years ago today on 13 Apr 1926, in St Elizabeth, #Jamaica. #Jamaican surgeon, parliamentarian, and Cabinet minister. A trailblazer in both medicine and public life, she is distinguished as the first woman surgeon in the Caribbean and a senior figure in the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) governments of the 1980s. Early Life and Education Born on 13 April 1926 in St Elizabeth, she is the daughter of Isaac and Adelaide Holness. She received her secondary education at Blake’s Tutorial College before pursuing higher studies abroad. She attended Howard University in Washington, D.C., and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Medical Career Gilmour-Petersen graduated from Howard University College of Medicine in 1951, after which she served at a number of hospitals in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. In 1959, she undertook further specialist training in Scotland. She embarked on her Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, and upon completion was appointed Consultant Surgeon at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH), thereby becoming the first woman surgeon in the Caribbean. She served at the KPH from 1960 to 1976. This appointment represented a landmark in Caribbean medical history, breaking barriers of both gender and professional seniority at the region’s most prominent public hospital at a time when women in surgery remained exceptional worldwide. Parliamentary Career Gilmour-Petersen entered elective politics in 1976, winning the St Andrew West Rural constituency, which she held until 1989. She was among a small cohort of women elected to the Jamaican Parliament in that era and would go on to hold senior executive responsibility under Prime Minister Edward Seaga. Ministerial Service She served as Minister of Education from 1980 to 1986, and subsequently as Minister of Social Security and Consumer Affairs from 1986 to 1989. As Minister of Education, her tenure coincided with a period of significant institutional restructuring in Jamaican schooling. In 1982 she announced the conversion of the Passley Gardens Agricultural School in Portland from a secondary institution to an agricultural college offering tertiary-level associate degree programmes in agriculture. Her six-year tenure at Education remains one of the longest continuous occupancies of that portfolio in post-independence Jamaica. She was succeeded at the Ministry of Social Security and Consumer Affairs by Portia Simpson-Miller , who would herself later become Jamaica’s first female Prime Minister, a notable passing of the baton between two pioneering women in Jamaican public life. Honours and Recognition Gilmour-Petersen was awarded the Order of Distinction, Commander Class, in 2004, and Jamaica’s fourth-highest honour, the Order of Jamaica, in 2009. She was also selected to receive the Prime Minister’s Diamond Jubilee Award as part of Jamaica’s 60th independence anniversary celebrations in 2022 , in recognition of a lifetime of distinguished public service. At the age of 94, she was cited by Minister of Culture Olivia Grange as among the great Jamaican women deserving of national tribute. Legacy Gilmour-Petersen’s career spans two of the most demanding spheres of public life, medicine and politics, and in both she occupied positions that no Caribbean woman had held before her. Her trajectory from operating theatre to Cabinet embodies a tradition of professional service that has informed successive generations of Jamaican women in public roles.

THIS IS ULTRA SAVAGE 🔥 Journalist –– Why do you think President Trump posted that photo depicting Jesus? 🇺🇸 Rep Nancy –– "You should ask a psychiatrist. It needs diagnosis, not conversation" 😂

@kerrydougherty These people r soooooo dumb. All it takes is one google search. The Pope is head of State… head of 1.4 billion Catholics…. He can speak on any issue.

When did the Pope lecture Canada about rampant euthanasia and organ harvesting? I must have missed that.

Spain’s PM Pedro Sanchez says international law is being fundamentally violated by one country, Israel, as it continues to bomb Lebanon. 🔴LIVE updates: aje.news/8xcc64

Morality? Thus, the Pope has every right to comment on the Iran War and asking for PEACE .

Pope Leo left Rome this morning at 9:06am for Algeria - the first stop on his four country Apostolic Journey in Africa.

The Catholic Church will always endure.

Praying for you, Pope Leo!

@WellsJorda89710 U know this post is a lie ?

🚨 The Catholic Church is now being led by the False Prophet of Revelation — in real time. This new pontiff makes Pope Francis look like Mother Teresa by comparison. He stays completely silent on the left's transgender insanity destroying our kids. He says nothing about the rising tide of Anti-Semitism. He refuses to confront liberal leaders or their radical agenda. But he has no problem repeatedly attacking the Trump administration. The conclave had a chance to elect a strong, conservative pope. They knew exactly who he was — and they chose a liberal instead. Why? Because the rot at the top of the Church is real. The leadership is demonic, filled with evil, and pushing a godless globalist vision. There are still many faithful Catholics and good bishops in America fighting the good fight. But this "Catholic" administration in Rome? It's compromised to its core. Wake up, believers. The signs are everywhere. Pray for the Church. Discern the times. The False Prophet is not coming — he's here. #FalseProphet #BookOfRevelation #CatholicChurch #EndTimes

No one really cares what Trump thinks of the Vicar of Christ. You people need to read history and see how those who attack the Church lives are ended . The Church is at her BEST when she is being persecuted. Blood of the Martyrs are seeds of new life.

@ChristopherHale Catholicism always outlast her enemies

No American Catholic can stand by and say nothing while the president of the United States attacks our pope.

Who cares what Trump says about the Vicar of Christ? Catholicism always outlast her enemies.

The US president has attacked the leader of the Catholic Church in a social media post, accusing him of being ‘weak’ on crime and of ‘catering to the Radical Left', after the pope criticised the US-Israeli war against Iran. Follow for live updates: ft.trib.al/7lH4CZ9

So far in 2026, the Catholic Church in the U.S. has welcomed the largest number of converts in recent years. cbsn.ws/4ctJD9o

@AuntyHersh Sending hugs

I’m depressed so I’m over here rug shopping.

Prime Minister and Trump ally Viktor Orbán has conceded defeat in Hungary's parliamentary election, ending 16 years of power for the right-wing nationalist. cnn.it/3OACFHt

For a while, Olivia Sinclair watched Jamaica’s carnival from the sidelines – not for a lack of love for soca or the season of events, but because she didn’t see her body type reflected in media coverage. Read more: jamaica-gleaner.com/article/lifest…

@SbShariek lol 😂

Going out with my friends and me a pray no long cocky man no swing after my friends. Wa yuh mean me afi go take out me stiff breast and me knife

@SbShariek @_BkBelle

@_BkBelle Baddddd. Would a nibble dem rnnn

Rich up a ac hotel a fight. Har breast stiff tho