Academic
and social activist Rev Merlyn Hyde Riley on Saturday smashed Baptist tradition after she was elected the first woman general secretary in almost two centuries of the Jamaican Baptist movement, renowned for its fight against slavery.
News of Hyde Riley’s appointment electrified the 173rd general assembly of the Jamaica Baptist Union (JBU) which brought thousands to the Boulevard Baptist Church on Washington Boulevard and the National Arena in St Andrew over February 22 and 26…
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