“I’m still waiting for the time when we have a woman Commissioner of Police and a woman Chief of Staff of the army,” First Lady Sandra Granger said to resounding applause as she delivered the feature address at the second annual Women of Mission International (WOMI) conference at the Egbert Benjamin Centre, Linden, on Friday.
The First Lady was the last of six in a panel of presenters at the one-day exercise, which attracted over one hundred women from all stations in life and from various parts of the country. Referring to the WOMI mission statement of providing education, health and support services to women, who are in disadvantaged positions due to poverty, homelessness, HIV/AIDS and domestic violence, the First Lady said she could do nothing but accept the invitation to speak at the conference after she had read about the commitment of WOMI.
Introduced as an educator, who lectured at the University of Guyana in modern languages for many years, and a mother, grandmother and wife of forty five years – the First Lady jocularly disclosed that she is from a family of eight children in which she was
