Ann Peters is a Grenadian politician who previously served as health minister. A nurse by training, Peters has also served as a senator for the National Democratic Congress party and as president of the Grenada Nurses Association.
Biography
editBorn in Grenada, Peters trained as a nurse at the University of Guyana. She worked as a nursing teacher, eventually becoming president of the Grenada Nurses Association.[1]
She was in this role during the 1983 coup and subsequent U.S. invasion of Grenada. Peters and her fellow nurses joined other protesters in storming the military barracks to free the leftist prime minister Maurice Bishop, and she was shot and badly injured during his opponents' attack on the fort.[2] She was with Bishop during his final hours before he was killed on Oct. 19, though she survived the executions herself.[3]
After 1983, Peters continued to work in health care, running the Legal Aid and Counseling Clinic[4] and serving as chair of Grenada's National AIDS Council.[5]
She was appointed to Grenada's Senate by Prime Minister Nicholas Brathwaite in the 1990s, serving several terms as a member of the National Democratic Congress party.[6] She served as the party's public relations officer from 2009 until 2010, when she stepped down amid party infighting.[7]
Peters became health minister in 2009 amid a cabinet reshuffle under Prime Minister Tillman Thomas.[8] She oversaw the provision of health services in Grenada and represented the country in international bodies until the end of her term in 2013.[9][10][11]
Since leaving the Senate, Peters has run La Boucan Creative Center, an education center.[12][13]
Peters is also a singer and dancer, serving as choreographer for the National Performing Arts Company of Grenada from 1979 to 1983.[7] She and her husband, the playwright Francis Urias Peters, produced a play about the country's revolution for its 30th anniversary in 2013.[14]
External links
editReferences
edit- ^ "Final Hours at Fort Rupert". The Grenada Revo. 2016-10-12. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ Miami Herald (2013-10-26). "Healing still hard to come by 30 years after Grenada invasion". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ "The Death of Grenada's Revolution". BBC Radio 4. 2013-10-19. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ Fineman, Mark (2001-04-17). "A Man of the Cloth in the Dock". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ Straker, Linda (2009-04-26). "Jamaican rapper denied permit for Grenada concert". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ "Grenada registered nurses want appointment, more money". Dominica Vibes News. 2012-11-09. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ a b "Minister of health in Grenada Ann Peters". The New Today. 2010-04-24.
- ^ "Grenada PM announces Cabinet Changes". Spice Islander. 2009-07-30. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ "Statement by Senator the Honourable Ann Peters, Minister of Health of Grenada, on the Occasion of the Inauguration of the 28th Pan American Sanitary Conference, 64th Session of the Regional Committee of WHO for the Americas" (PDF). Pan American Health Organization. 2012-09-17.
- ^ Press, C. Q. (2013). Worldwide government directory, with inter-governmental organizations : nations, intergovernmental organizations. Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1-4522-9937-2. OCLC 868376655.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Turner, Barry (2013). The Statesman's Yearbook : The politics, cultures and economies of the world. 2013. Basingstoke. ISBN 978-1-349-59541-9. OCLC 968705787.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ "Cuban nurses to temporarily fill vacancies". NOW Grenada. 2019-12-10. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ "Minister Steele holds his ground". The New Today. 2019-12-13. Retrieved 2020-09-25.
- ^ Miami Herald (2013-10-25). "Grenada: 30 Years After US Invasion, Wounds Remain". Military.com. Retrieved 2020-09-25.