Plans are underway to observe its 46th year as the PLP celebrates the Founders Day

Luncheon at the Devonshire Recreation Club on Sunday, February 22nd. The venue was selected because most of the founders were members of the club and because of the role that the Club has played in the social and political development in Bermuda. The speaker will be Pastor Jamaine Tucker, a Bermudian who launched Trinity Chapel Bermuda at the Spinning Wheel Entertainment Complex. He has extensive pastoral experience locally and in the U.S.

The PLP will also bestow its Drum Major Awards on that occasion. The awards were named as a tribute to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King who shortly before his death said he wanted to be remembered as a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness. The awardees this year are: the Progressive Group for launching the Theatre Boycott 50 yrs ago, Linda (Smith) Khaleed for her devoted years of service nurturing and fostering infants, Dr. Victor Walters for his involvement in the construction industry and Dwayne Paynter who conducts sewing classes at the Co-Ed facility and has equipped some of the incarcerated females from overseas to open businesses in their home countries.

Tickets for the event are $50 and can be obtained at PLP Headquarters, Alaska Hall, Court Street.

The following evening at 7:30 the public is invited to attend a PLP Public Meeting at the Devonshire Recreation Club where the PLP parliamentarians from Pembroke and Devonshire will be in attendance.

Deputy Premier Hon. Paula A. Cox will be on hand to give an overview of the 2009-10 budget, and Minister Hon. Terry Lister will give a presentation of the PLP Government's Energy Green Paper. This meeting was postponed from last Monday due to inclement weather.

There is no admission charge for this meeting.