Over 300 members of the extended Bristol family will attend a series of activities this week as part of a reunion under the theme ‘For Generations to come… Our Heritage… Our Future’, Chairman of the planning committee Seon Bristol said yesterday.
The reunion, for which some 150 Bristols have travelled from the US, Canada, the UK and Antigua, begins officially this morning at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue with a non-denominational church service, registration, welcome and greetings, Coordinator of the opening ceremony Walter Bristol said.
Giving a round up of the activities for the week, Walter Bristol said that on Monday, the family moves to the National Park for a picnic. On Tuesday, family members will visit the villages and graves of their ancestors.
On Wednesday, the Bristols will make donations to the St Ann’s Orphanage and Red Cross Convalescent Home and on Thursday a team which includes four doctors and three nurses will be at the Nabaclis cottage hospital.
On Friday the family converges on Splashmin’s Resort and Fun Park and on Saturday returns to the gymnasium for a closing ceremony which includes awards, recognition of the planning committee and resolutions from panel discussions that will be ongoing during the week.
Walter Bristol said that the family’s genesis in Guyana was from three Antiguan brothers who came here long ago, two of whom settled in Nabaclis/Golden Grove and Berbice while the third travelled and traded. He said the idea for the reunion took root two years ago when local family member, Quacy Bristol, was shot dead on the seawall and his motorcycle stolen.
