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Special Sitting Highlights Women’s Suffrage Movement
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The House of Assembly and Senate holding a joint session, Wednesday morning, in recognition of the women’s suffrage movement and the 60th anniversary of women having the right to vote.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The House of Assembly and Senate holding a joint session, Wednesday morning, in recognition of the women’s suffrage movement and the 60th anniversary of women having the right to vote.
The last time there was a joint sitting was in 2012.
Presiding over the special sitting were House Speaker Patricia Deveaux and Senate President Lashell Adderley.
On February 23, 1961, the House of Assembly enacted the law to give women the right to vote and sit in the legislature starting June 30, 1962.
In the gallery were women who made their mark on Bahamian politics over the last six decades.
Moving the resolution that paved to way for today’s special sitting was the country’s longest-serving female parliamentarian Glenys Hanna-Martin.
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