Community Development and Citizens’ Engagement Division – On Wednesday 10th May 2023 another resident of Antigua and Barbuda joined the Centenarian Club.

The Community Development and Citizens’ Engagement Division joined with other Ministry and Government Officials, family, friends and well-wishers to celebrate the official 100th birthday of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Ellen Meade.

She has joined the Centenarian club which now boasts of 24 living Centenarians 20 females and 4 males, some of whom live here and abroad.

Ellen as she is affectionately known is a native of Monserrat who migrated to Antigua in 1944 and married one year later to the late Mr. Daniel Robert Meade.

She and her husband, along with many of the early pioneers of the Pentecost movement worked to establish the Pentecostal church by conducting Sunday schools and Open-Air services which attracted many to the new movement.

Ellen had 9 children, 7 of whom are still living. After 59 years of marriage, her husband
Daniel Meade passed away. Many of her children are well known to the Antiguan public as they held professions such as Teacher and Meteorologist among others and contributed significantly to nation-building.

Present at the ceremony were His Excellency Sir Claire Robers Governor Generals Deputy, Hon. Richard Lewis Parliamentary Representative for St. John’s Rural West, Sen. Samantha Marshall Junior Minister of State within the Ministry of Health, Wellness, Social Transformation and the Environment, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Baldwin Spencer, Dale O’Brien Director of Community Development and Citizens’ Engagement Division, Apostle Stephen Andrews of the St. Johns Pentecostal House of Restoration Center, Ms. Yvonne Ambrose Zone Officer with Responsibility for Rural West District, other members of staff of the Community Development and Citizens’ Engagement Division, family, friends and well-wishers who journeyed near and from abroad to participate in this momentous occasion.