The Order of Excellence includes Erica Gates (posthumously), Nina Gape, president of Rwanda Paul Kagame, and US congresswoman Maxine Waters.

Names as members of the Order of The Bahamas are E Clement Bethel (posthumously), Senior Justice Bernard Turner, Justice Milton Evans, Justice Kim Adderley (retired), John Dean (posthumously), Justice Jon Isaacs, and Dr Richard Demeritte. Three people are names as officers of the Order of The Bahamas, including Rev Kenris Deveaux-Carey, Lynn Pyfrom Holowesko, and, posthumously, Rev Dr J Emmette Weir. Also named are Lowell Jason Mortimer, Cynthia “Mother” Pratt, Rev Dr Harcourt Whitfield Brown, Dr Perry Gomez, Archbishop Patrick Pinder, and, posthumously, Rev Dr Harcourt Whitfield Brown. Six people have been named as companions of the Order of The Bahamas, including The Tribune’s editor and publisher, Eileen Dupuch Carron. She also served as acting governor general, and is also famed as a teacher and suffragette.

The highest honour awarded, the Order of National Hero, is posthumously conferred on Dame Doris Johnson, who was the first woman to contest an election in The Bahamas, the first woman to be appointed to the Senate, and the first woman president of the Senate. THE nation’s leading lights have been recognised in the Independence Honours, as announced by Governor General Cornelius Smith.

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