National Honours List Reduced

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Wednesday, 20 October 2010 06:55

By caribarena news

This year’s list of Awardees for National Honours will not number more than a dozen. According to Chairman of the National Honours Committee, Dr Jacqui Quinn-Leandro, one of the committee's first decisions was to limit the number of awards.

The committee also outlined very strict criteria to ensure that "only service of the highest quality is recognized and applauded," a release said.

Responding to criticism that the list has been too long at times, Quinn-Leandro noted there are some awards granted outside the National Honours Committee.

“It must be understood that the National Honours Committee Act makes provision for Awards to be granted by the Governor General, the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition, separate and apart from those which the Committee would put forward," she said. "Therefore, we do not have full control of the final cut, even with our best intentions to keep it short.”

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Dr Quinn-Leandro added, “We want to ensure that only the most deserving who have given outstanding service to nation building will be awarded.

Awardees must have given a lifetime of dedicated, high quality service in their fields of endeavour, having gone over and beyond the call of duty to distinguish themselves. These Independence honours are very prestigious awards which should not be devalued or watered down in any way.”

The other members of the National Honours Committee are Harold Lovell, Trevor Walker, Eustace Lake, Senator Anthony Stuart, and Senator Arthur Nibbs. Its secretary is Valerie Richards-Burton.

National honours are awarded to outstanding Antiguans & Barbudans every year during the Ceremonial Parade on Independence Day.

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