Road To Be Dedicated To Nelson Bascome Jr
A section of Friswells Road will be dedicated to the late Minister Nelson Bascome, who was a long term resident and well known part of the Friswells Hill community.
The ceremony will take place on Sunday September 16th, and will start with a worship service by Cornerstone Bible Fellowship at 10am in the Ruth Seaton James Auditorium and then at 1.30pm a plaque and road sign unveiling ceremony will take place at 22 Friswells Road, Pembroke [home of the late Nelson Bascome Jr.], where a section of the road will be dedicated to the late Minister.
A spokesperson said: “The plaque and road signs have been commissioned by the Ministry of Public Works. Although it is an open event, attendees are cautioned that seating is only for those who received formal invites either through the mail or by-hand and therefore, since the ceremony is expected to last up to an hour, there could be a significant amount of standing involved.
“The opening prayer will be given by Brother Paul Richards followed by welcoming remarks by The Minister of Public Works Michael Weeks. There will then be remarks by Premier Paula Cox which will be followed by a musical selection and then ‘thank you remarks’ from representatives of Friswell’s Hill United Inc.”
The road naming will take place the day after the 1st Annual Nelson Bascome Jr. Focus Trophy Football Match at Devonshire Rec, which will see a host of politicians take the field including Zane DeSilva, Michael Weeks, Kim Swan, Patrice Minors, Marc Bean, Kim Wilson, Wayne Furbert, Glenn Blakeney, and Craig Cannonier.
“Although it is an open event, attendees are cautioned that seating is only for those who received formal invites either through the mail or by-hand and therefore, since the ceremony is expected to last up to an hour, there could be a significant amount of standing involved.”
So what if it is standing room only – how many times have people stood outside of funerals, weddings, gone to soccer, cricket, soca and all the rest for longer than an hour. Extend an invitation to everyone and reserve the seats – who the heck is planning this??? To me, it reads as a “you didn’t receive an invite – you ain’t welcome”. Mr. Bascome was not that kind of man, so why do this.
Don’t be silly. They were merely trying to prepare people.Get a life. You probably haven’t organized anything in your life.
Ya ranking high on the Sulfur-Simpson scale, very high indeed!
finally we see are leaders coming together on a field to kick around a football to get their frustrations out that they feel toward one another and I was the one who told them that time out in a corner did not work in a black community.
Seriously I could not resist but to the memory of a great individual who I believe desrves the reconition for the long hard hours that turned into long hard years of blood sweat and tears for both he and his family into the Friswell’s Hill Community and the Pembroke Community at large,I say well desrved to Mr. Bascome and his legacy,memory and loyal dedication that no one can deny that he gave and rightly deserves.
I considered Nelson a Good friend and a person that no matter where we met or when both locally and overseas,he and I would always be focused on one or two conversations,the state of the country or the state of the church.to both who he was very loyal to.
It is about time something was done . He worked hard.
I am uncomfortable naming any public property after politians.
I don’t care what party they were affiliated with.
Nothing wrong with schools named for great educators but public buildings, no. At a stretch perhaps naming for a recogonised great Premier who is pretty much squeaky clean in public & private life is OK. Only one comes to mind & he is still alive.
Exactly! No public property, building or road should be named after any politician no matter what persuasion.
You can’t learn any lesson if you ignore what is right in front of you. Bermudians need to start looking at the positive AND negative traits of individuals not not judge, praise or mock them….but to learn what we should and should not emulate. We are too quick to make every dead person almost a saint and gloss over what went wrong that we should not repeat.