{"id":18340,"date":"2012-02-22T21:55:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T02:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18340"},"modified":"2012-02-27T12:12:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T17:12:26","slug":"bahamas-striping-pitches-in-on-community-upkeep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/bahamas-striping-pitches-in-on-community-upkeep","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Striping Pitches In On Community Upkeep"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FNM Candidate for the Elizabeth Constituency, Dr. Duane Sands, teamed together with Bahamas Striping\u2019s crew to repaint the Elizabeth Estates basketball court near the police station. Dr. Sands was impressed with the young company\u2019s voluntary service and willingness to help the neighbourhood. Bahamas Striping president, Atario Mitchell, lives in the constituency and is hoping to find more projects to use his company\u2019s special striping skills. Bahamas Striping is a successful Self Starter Award winner and also employs the National Job Readiness & Training Initiative to employ two staff, to equip them with skills and to give them a professional career path. Pictured here is Triston Johnson, one of Bahamas Striping\u2019s two staff that successfully applied for the NJB&TI.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The constituents of Elizabeth benefitted from a young Self Starter company\u2019s desire to help the community when Dr. Duane Sands teamed up with Bahamas Striping to refresh the area\u2019s basketball court last weekend.<\/p>\n

Atario Mitchell, President of Bahamas Striping, one of the outstanding success stories of the government\u2019s Self Starter Program, approached Dr. Duane Sands to find ways of helping Mitchell\u2019s own Elizabeth Constituency. Having heard that Bahamas Striping recently donated the painting of three basketball courts late last year in the Pinewood area, Dr. Sands approached the Officer-In-Charge at the Northeastern Division, Superintendent Ismella Davis, for permission to repaint the worn out basketball court near the Elizabeth Estates police station. Superintendent Davis was pleased that one of the local constituency\u2019s youths would volunteer to help free of charge.<\/p>\n

While watching the operation and even helping paint himself, Dr. Sands learnt a lot about Bahamas Striping and its ongoing success that started with a $5,000 Self Starter grant from the Ministry of Youth, Sports & Cultures more than two years ago.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s phenomenal what this young team has been able to achieve in such a short time. It\u2019s an inspiration \u2013 not just for experienced adults, but particularly for the youth. Atario\u2019s desire to help brighten up the Elizabeth Constituency speaks volumes of the goodness of our Bahamian youth. This basketball court is in need of repair and so are many parts of this area. It was heartwarming to see Atario and his young team step forward and ask how he could help,\u201d said Dr. Sands.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was an ideal opportunity for me to personally see the fruits of two our most important government initiatives to combat the effects of the world recession. Here\u2019s a company that people rally around to help because of its Self Starter success and now it\u2019s training many more youths than it normally could afford because of The National Job Readiness & Training Initiative,\u201d added Sands.<\/p>\n

Mitchell explained he was inspired to reach out to make Elizabeth a better neighbourhood because of all the help the government has given him in bringing his dream to fruition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government has helped in so many ways.\u00a0 The Self Starter grant made starting my business much easier and now I\u2018ve been able to expand my staff and train other youngsters because of the Job Readiness & Training program. Now we have grown to eight full time and four part time staff. There\u2019s no way we could have done that without the government\u2019s job initiative. Striping is an on\/off business. With this program we can now afford to use our off days for training and give the staff valuable skills. They are learning much more than they normally would. The program gives them the paid time to learn all kinds of things: administration, inventory control, and maintenance. And we have the time to do charitable work like this!\u201d said Mitchell.<\/p>\n

Dr. Sands and Mitchell said they\u2019d like to find other projects in Elizabeth Constituency where Bahamas Striping\u2019s special skills in spray painting could help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The constituents of Elizabeth benefitted from a young Self Starter company\u2019s desire to help the community when Dr. Duane Sands teamed up with Bahamas Striping to refresh the area\u2019s basketball court last weekend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-18340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}