The Hon. Elsworth Johnson, Minister for State for Legal Affairs (right), and H.E. Reuben Rahming, Bahamas Ambassador to CARICOM States (left), represented the Government of The Bahamas at the State Funeral for the Late Former Jamaican Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Edward Seaga, Sunday, June 23, 2019 at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Kingston, Jamaica. Also from The Ba hamas, pictured — Leader of the Opposition the Hon. Philip Davis (centre), and Mr. Kevin Simmons (second right).
NASSAU, The Bahamas
Prime Minister the Most Hon. Dr. Hubert Minnis announced that $8 billion in international investments have been approved as at May 2019.
His Excellency Alvin Alfred Smith, High Commissioner of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to Canada and Minister Garneau signed the new Canada-Bahamas air transport agreement.
Pictures from the event
NASSAU, The Bahamas
June 6, 2019
By Matt Maura
New and exciting marketing campaigns that have allowed The Bahamas to break into new markets, hard work, the ingenuity and creativity of the staff at The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, and a “robust” U.S. economy are among four key reasons why The Bahamas is experiencing its incredible growth in Tourism arrivals.
NASSAU, The Bahamas
Cornelius A. Smith was sworn in as Deputy to the Governor General by Acting Chief Justice Vera Watkins during a brief ceremony at Government House on Saturday, June 8, 2019.
NASSAU, The Bahamas – His Excellency Ellison E. Greenslade, QPM, High Commissioner of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, said he is satisfied with the level of investigation into the deaths of the two Bahamian young men whose bodies were found in the River Po in the city of Turin, Italy, on June 4 and 5, 2019.
High Commissioner Greenslade, a former Commissioner of the Royal Bahamas Police Force, was dispatched to Italy on Saturday, June 8, 2019, to make further inquiries into the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Foreign Service Officer Alrae Ramsey, 29, and Blair Rashad Randy John, 28, a Ph.D. student in Psychology.
High Commissioner Greenslade is accompanied by Wilfred Adderley II, Deputy to the High Commissioner in London, and Michelangela Vismara, Bahamas Honorary Consul to Italy.
NASSAU, Bahamas, June 5, 2019
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is saddened by the death of one of its Foreign Services Officers, Mr. Alrae Ramsey, who was on study leave in Vienna, Austria, and who visited Turin, Italy, over the middle of last week. Mr Ramsey was employed with Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 9th December 2013.
Formerly, he was posted at the Bahamas Embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti as third Secretary/Vice-consul in 2016 – 2017. Then, last year, he was granted an In-Service Award to pursue a one-year Postgraduate Diploma programme in Diplomacy/International Relations and Languages at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna in Austria for the period September 2018 – June 2019.
According to the Ministry, officials arrived in Turin today and met with officials from the police force. They confirmed that the body pulled from the river was, indeed, that of Mr. Alrae Ramsey.
