Omar Anderson, Gleaner Writer
A NUMBER of women advocates have joined the Portia Simpson Miller campaign team.
Heading the list are Dr. Glenda Simms, former executive director of the Bureau of Women's Affairs and University of the West Indies (UWI) lecturer, Professor Carolyn Cooper.
The Gleaner understands that two female economists have also joined the team.
Mrs. Simpson Miller, a PNP vice-president and president of the PNP Women's Movement, is going up against PNP vice-presidents Dr. Peter Phillips and Dr. Karl Blythe, and the party's Region Three chairman Dr. Omar Davies.
All four are vying to replace party leader P.J. Patterson when he demits office in a couple months.
Yesterday, Dr. Simms confirmed her participation on Team Portia, disclosing that she is a member of the policy committee.
"I'm very supportive of Mrs. Portia Simpson Miller, not only because she's a woman, but because I've worked with her and I know the kind of action-oriented person she is," Dr. Simms said yesterday.
She also sought to dispel a notion that Mrs. Simpson Miller did not have much international appeal.
"I've been with her on many occasions in which she had to face the international community and she was exceptional in the way she handled the issues," Dr. Simms stated. "I'm not one of those persons who buy into the myth that she is not capable."
