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» Dr. D. Brady-West

» Mrs. Shirley Richards

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Biographical Sketches

Dr. Doreen Brady-West
Dr. Doreen Brady-West has been a consultant haematologist and a lecturer in Pathology at the University of the West Indies, Mona, since 1995. She has previously worked as the director of the National Blood Transfusion Services and is currently the lead trainer for "Youth at the Crossroads" which is the HIV prevention strategy of the Campus Crusade for Christ. She also serves in the Christian education department of the Mona Open Bible church. Dr. Brady-West is a ranking member of a group of concerned Christian doctors who have joined with church leaders and legal and media professionals to present an organized challenge to abortion on demand in Jamaica.

Rev. Peter Garth
Rev. Garth is a graduate of Jamaica Theological Seminary and has served as pastor of Hope Gospel Assembly for the past 24 years. He is Chaplain and Chairman of the Board of Merl Grove High School and is 1st Vice President (and former President) of the Associated Gospel Assemblies (AGA). He is a member of the National Council of Education and of the General Education Commission of AGA. However, his greatest boast is being married to Flora (nee Hanson) for thirty years and being the father of Jonathan and Charlene. He is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. He speaks at the press conference in his capacity as President of the Jamaica Association of Evangelicals (JAE).

Ms. Zandra Levy
Ms. Levy is a native of Kingston and graduated from Barry University in Miami, Florida with a Masters Degree in Social Work and Counseling (MSW) in 2005. After college, she worked in many capacities helping address real human needs. She has worked in a Miami/Dade inner city community assisting disadvantaged children and their families. She also worked for the Urban League of Broward County teaching young people about community abstinence, and presently she offers her expertise in family life ministries through parenting workshops, bereavement counseling and teen outreach. She is a founding member of Youth for Life which is a parachurch organization established for the purpose of fighting abortion in Jamaica.

Ms. Christina Milford
Christina Milford served Cable & Wireless Jamaica Ltd. in various positions for 27 years in the Technical Services Department. She is also certified in Biblical Studies at World Changers Bible Institute, TN, and is currently pursuing her BA in Guidance and Counselling at the International University of the Caribbean. Since January 2005 she has also been volunteer Counsellor and Board Member for Vision Makers WorldReach, a Christian, Non-Profit, Vocational Training, Community Based, Non-Government Organisation. Together with 12 others she founded Pregnancy Resource Centre of Jamaica (PRCJ) in 2006, propelled by a vision conceived February 29, 1997. In this capacity, she directly counsels and interfaces with abortion-vulnerable as well as post-abortive girls and women. Miss Milford, for whom Jesus Christ is Lord, is certified in Abortion Recovery with Oil of Joy Ministries, Inc. She has also founded and governs Hebron House, a small rescue net for “abortion-vulnerable” girls and their babies. Miss Milford also boasts with two sons and their wives, children by them: Kaelan (7 years), and Abigail (9 months).

Archbishop Donald J. Reece, D.D.
Most Rev. Donald J. Reece. D.D. has recently been appointed Co-Adjutor Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Kingston and returns to the land of his birth after having spent 25 years as the bishop of the Diocese of Saint John's-Basseterre, Virgin Islands. While serving as a priest in Jamaica, he was the pastor of Aquinas parish, Chaplain to the University of the West Indies, Rector of St. Michael's Seminary and Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Kingston from 1974 to 1981. As a member of the Antilles Episcopal Conference he has served as chairman of the commission of youth and vocations as well as chairman of the commissions of liturgy and ecumenism. He is a member of the Jamaica Council of Churches and represents that august body in the press conference.

Mrs. Shirley Richards
Mrs. Richards has been a practising Attorney since 1982 and currently serves as President of the Lawyers' Christian Fellowship. She hails from Grange Hill, Westmoreland and attended the Hampton School, Malvern, St. Elizabeth. She is married to Captain John Richards and is the mother of two beautiful children, Johanna and Andrew. She attends Christian Life Fellowship, Papine, St. Andrew and is well-known for her advocacy of Christian principles in Jamaican public life.

Bishop C. Everton Thomas
Bishop C. Everton Thomas is a graduate of the Caribbean Bible Institute, and has been in active ministry since he was eighteen (18) years of age. Having gained much knowledge and experience both at home and abroad, he now holds substantive positions as Presiding Prelate of the Emmanuel Apostolic Church Inc., chairman of the Jamaica Pentecostal Union (Apostolic), and chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Religious Media Commission (LOVE 101 FM/TV). Bishop Thomas has ministered in the Caribbean, the U.S.A., Canada, the United Kingdom, South America, and Africa. He is married to Jillian, and together they are the parents of a son, Brandon (18) and daughter, Tiffany (15).

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