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Linda Banks Get Pinnacle Award
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Anguillian psychologist Dr. Oluwakemi Linda Banks is to be the recipient of a Pinnacle Award from the National Coalition on Caribbean Affairs which comprises organisations and individuals extending from Massachusetts to Florida, New York to California and Michigan to Mississippi.
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Dr. O. M. Linda Banks
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They have all come together to protect and promote the interests of Caribbean communities throughout the region and the United States. The organisation came into being in August 1997 and seeks to work closely with its counterparts in Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe and Latin America.
The pinnacle Award, which Dr. Banks will be receiving, is given to persons of Caribbean birth or parentage who have achieved and maintained excellence in their field of activity over a protracted period of time.
The award presentation ceremony will be held on Saturday, October 8 at the Hilton Hotel in Silver Springs, MD. Dr. Banks has been invited to be a presenter at the seminar on Religion and Development which is part of the weekend anniversary programme of the organisation.
She continues the line of celebrated personages who have received the prestigious Pinnacle Award. Another person to be honoured on this occasion is Reverend Dr. Albert Aymer of Antigua, President of Hood Theological Seminary in North Carolina. Past awardees include Professor Rex Nettleford, former Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies; Sir George Alleyne, Director Emeritus of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau of the Pan American Health Organisation and current Chancellor of the UWI; the Honourable Colin Powell, former US Secretary of States and Sir Garfield Sobers, West Indies cricket icon.
Dr. Banks, a psychologist by profession, is currently serving her second five-year term as a member of the Praesidium of the Caribbean Conference of Churches (CCC).
The CCC General Secretary has congratulated Dr. Banks saying that: “The organisation expresses its heartfelt congratulations to Dr. Banks who has served the region in her individual capacity, and through the CCC, with unreserved dedication, personal sacrifice and as a true ambassadress. The CCC is indeed blessed to have such a committed, dynamic leader as one of its Presidents.”
The Pinnacle Award is one of two honours given each year by the NCOCA. The other is the International Service Award. This is given to a person or entity who has worked at the international level and whose work at that level has been beneficial to the Caribbean region.