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NASSAU, BAHAMAS The Free National Movement (FNM) ratified eight more incumbent members of Parliament, the party announced last night.
According to a statement, FNM MPs Michael Pintard (Marco City), Frankie Campbell (Southern Shores), Iram Lewis (Central Grand Bahama), Pakesia Parker-Edgecombe (West Grand Bahama and Bimini), Reuben Rahming (Pinewood), Adrian Gibson (Long Island), Shanendon Cartwright (St Barnabas) and Ricky Mackey (North Eleuthera) have all secured a spot on the party’s ticket.
The latest ratifications bring the total up to 25.
“The Free National Movement has ratified eight incumbent candidates to help advance the party’s agenda, which at its core, will ensure the continued building of a better Bahamas,” read the statement.
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NASSAU, BAHAMAS Several nurses demonstrated outside of the House of Assembly yesterday in an effort to urge the government to pay money owed to them and protest against what they claimed is a continued lack of respect and unfair treatment.
A nurse holds up a sign during a protest in Rawson Square on Wednesday, February 3, 2021. (FILE PHOTO)
The nurses chanted “we deserve better; we deserve respect” as they marched around the Lower Chamber in Parliament Square holding up placards that read: “Nurses don’t work for free”, “Give us our money”, “Nurses lives matters”, “Where’s your compassion?”, and “Protect us! We have families to go home to”.
Seated, from left, are Minister of Tourism and Aviation Dionisio D Aguilar and Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources Michael Pintard. (PHOTO: TOURISM DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Minister of Tourism Dionisio D’Aguilar and Minister of Agriculture Michael Pintard recently signed a memorandum of understanding to launch a new initiative aimed at engendering a “viable and visible linkage” between local farmers and fishermen and the hospitality industry.
The collaboration is the result of an initiative of the Tourism Development Corporation, which hailed the collaboration as a “groundbreaking strategic alliance”.
“Even though the proposed agritourism initiative was in the works, being advanced by both ministers respectively, the COVID-19 pandemic was really the catalyst that propelled this much-needed strategic alliance along,” a statement by the Tourism Development Corporation read.
Two government ministries have forged a partnership designed to boost economic ties between The Bahamas tourism and agriculture/marine industries to facilitate the latter s growth.
Dionisio D Aguilar, minister of tourism and aviation, and Michael Pintard, minister of agriculture and marine resources, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to launch the Agritourism Committee as a body that will improve linkages between local farmers and fishermen and the tourism industry.
Modelled on how other Caribbean countries such as Barbados, St Lucia, Antigua and Jamaica have aided local economic sectors by developing ties to tourism, the Agritourism Committee will be co-chaired by Mark Humes, MP and chairman of the Bahamas Agricultural Health & Food Safety Authority (BAHFSA), and Janet Johnson, chief executive/executive director of the Tourism Development Corporation (TDC).