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Bahamian
Prime Minister to receive CCAA Star of the Caribbean
award. |
| October 18,
2007: The Caribbean Central American Action (CCAA) has
announced that The Honorable Hubert Ingraham, Prime Minister
of The Bahamas, is to receive the organization’s Star of
the Caribbean Award on the evening of December 5th at
the 31st Miami Conference on the Caribbean Basin, scheduled
to take place December 3-5, 2007 at the Inter-Continental
Hotel in Miami Florida. The Star of the Caribbean Award is
given in recognition of distinguished service and committed
efforts to improve the economic well being of the people of
the Caribbean Basin. Past recipients of the Star of the
Caribbean Award include: President Ricardo Maduro of
Honduras, Prime Minister Patrick Manning of Trinidad &
Tobago, Prime Minister Owen Arthur of Barbados, President
Leonel Fernandez of the Dominican Republic, U.S. Senator
Robert Graham, as well as other influential Presidents,
Prime Ministers, and private sector leaders of the region. |
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Prime Minister
Ingraham was sworn in as the fourth Prime Minister of the
Bahamas on May 4, 2007. Prime Minister Ingraham is also the
Minister of Finance. Mr. Ingraham previously served as Prime
Minister for two consecutive terms between 1992 and 2992
when he voluntarily close not to seek re-election to
leadership of his party. Of humble beginnings, Prime
Minister Ingraham has consistently called for honest, open,
transparent and accountable government and his terms in
government have been marked by deliberate reductions in the
size of government, and the promotion of private sector led
economic development, both local and international. He and
his government were credited with the revitalization of The
Bahamas economy since 1992, most particularly in its tourism
and financial services sectors.
CCAA's Miami Conference remains the only forum that focuses
specific attention on the smaller economies of the Caribbean
and Central America. Invited heads of state for this year’s
Conference include Denzil Douglas, Prime Minister of St.
Kitts & Nevis, Nelson Oduber, Prime Minister of Aruba,
Leonel Fernandez President of the Dominican Republic, Martin
Torrijos Espino, President of Republic of Panama, Luiz
Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil, Stephen Harper,
Prime Minister of Canada, Oscar Arias, President of Costa
Rica and John de Jongh, Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Other invited speakers include Charles Rangel, US
Congressman, Luis Alberto Moreno, President, Inter-American
Development Bank; Dan Sullivan, Assistant Secretary, U.S.
Dept. of State; and Carlos Gutierrez, Secretary, U.S.
Department of Commerce among others.
Confirmed sponsors for the Miami Conference include British
American Tobacco, Scotiabank, FedEx, Chevron, ExxonMobil,
Tropical Shipping, Port of Miami and Seaboard Marine.
CCAA is a non-governmental organization that promotes
private sector-led economic development in the Caribbean
Basin. More information on the organization and the Annual
Miami Conference can be found by visiting CCAA's website at
http://www.c-caa.org. |
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