{"id":18636,"date":"2012-02-29T23:05:57","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T04:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=18636"},"modified":"2012-02-29T23:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T04:09:23","slug":"over-300-grand-bahama-youth-to-receive-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/02\/over-300-grand-bahama-youth-to-receive-awards","title":{"rendered":"Over 300 Grand Bahama Youth To Receive Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-18639\" title=\"ggya-youth-award\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ggya-youth-award.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ggya-youth-award.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ggya-youth-award-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>The Governor General&#8217;s Youth Award (GGYA) program is making history as more than 300 participants on Grand Bahama are set to receive Bronze Awards in June, a statement from the program said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s the largest number of Bronze Award recipients that we have on record,&#8221; Marla Turnquest, GGYA office manager said.<\/p>\n<p>In total, more than 400 young people participating in the GGYA service program on Grand Bahama are expected to receive awards after completing a qualifying exhibition later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re expecting over 300 participants to receive their Bronze Award and another 100 to receive their Silver Award during the ceremony in June,&#8221; Turnquest said.<\/p>\n<p>The program that is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year has undergone a name change since it first began when it was called the Duke of Edinburgh Award.<\/p>\n<p>The program is currently entrenched in 11 schools on the island and is geared towards youth between the ages of 14 to 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Governor General&#8217;s Youth Award program will be handing out the largest number of awards to participants in it&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"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":[55,21,51],"class_list":["post-18636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-awards","tag-educational","tag-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636","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\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}