A Barbadian Government Senator, Kerryann Ifill has encouraged Grenadians to exercise their constitutional right by participating in the electoral process.
"Each one of us has been given the constitutional right to exercise a vote, and it is our ultimate responsibility to ensure that we take charge of that and exercise it as God would have us to do," she said.
Speculation is rife that Prime Minister, Dr. Keith Mitchell will all general elections in Grenada within the next eight months.
Sen. Ifill who was the guest of the Women's arm of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) was at the time delivering the feature address at a Gospel Concert held at Cuthbert Peter's Park in Gouyave, St. John's.
The event commemorated International Women's Day which is celebrated in most countries around the world.
According to Sen. Ifill there is a fall in morality globally including the Caribbean and a lot of challenges are creeping up.
She addressed the need for the men and women of Grenada to come together and work with each other.
She implored them to recognise the future as having a lot of challenges ahead.
"It is a future with a lot of problems, a lot of things that some of us cannot begin to solve," she said.
The Barbadian Government Senator who is visually impaired in giving an account of her life story said it was one in which some people thought that she should have sat down and be just content to live on charity.
She spoke of losing her eyesight at the tender age of five.
"Some people think that blindness or disability of any sort is a curse, it is a punishment of any sort, it is a testimony that something in your family went wrong and this is the reason why this child is caused to suffer," she said.
According to Sen. Ifill, her fellow Barbadian citizens felt that as a blind child she just had to attend the School for the Blind and end up working in the Workshop for the Blind.
She said it was a scary experience for her when she entered High School since it was the first time "a totally blind child in Barbados was going to experience a regular school environment."
"Every time I came against a struggle, I came to a realisation that I should never ever let anybody set limitations for me... Do not let anyone set a limitation for you because you are a woman," she said.
On completion of High School, she went to the Cavehill Campus of the University of the West Indies (UWI) in Barbados.
Ifill said she has come to realise that every time she moves forward in life, there is something pushing her even further.
The Barbadian Government Senator spoke of how she became involved in politics since in the first two months of the year she had no interest in getting involved in politics.
She said without realising it, God's plan for her was to make her the first "totally blind female in the Senate of Barbados."
She described this experience as being awesome, humbling, and honouring.
"It is awesome because I am now placed in the highest echelon of our society. It is honouring because as Deputy President of the Senate I am called upon to take charge of meetings and to make decisions that will eventually effect our country, but it is humbling because I have to lead my country", she said.
I have the eyes of people all over Barbados and the Caribbean on me, and I must make sure that I live up to the expectations," she added.
