Presleith Yvette McPhee, MBA, ITIL, PMP® hails
from a historic Bahamian family whose maternal heritage
and lineage are traced for eight generations from an
official and an Irish wi...view morePresleith Yvette McPhee, MBA, ITIL, PMP® hails
from a historic Bahamian family whose maternal heritage
and lineage are traced for eight generations from an
official and an Irish wife who traveled with his family from
England and Ireland during the 17th century to make the
Bahama their home and to assist with the development of
Nassau, The Bahamas.
A fifth-generation Seventh-Day Adventist whose greatgreat-grandparent's William C Antonio and Mary C Griffith-Antonio pioneer
the first Sabbath-keeping group in the Bahamas from their homestead at
West Hill Street and Hospital Lane. Ms. McPhee's great-grandmother, Mrs.
Evangeline Antonio-Wood Holmes, and great-great grandmother Marcy C
Griffith-Antonio, were the principal contributors to the denomination during
the 19th century. They traveled throughout the width and breadth of Nassau,
and some of the Family Islands in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas in their
quest to establish the Sabbath-keeping Denomination in the Bahamas. It was
not an easy task, but for 14 years, the parents of Mrs. Evangline Antonio-Wood
Holmes ( William & Mary Antonio) utilized personalized funds and professional
acumen to ensure that the importance of Sabbath (Saturday) was saturated in the
Bahamian culture during the 19th century. Today in the Commonwealth of the
Bahamas, The Seventh-day Adventist Church is the fourth largest denomination with over 20,000 members.view less