{"id":20449,"date":"2012-04-11T23:17:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=20449"},"modified":"2012-04-11T23:17:09","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T03:17:09","slug":"self-starters-host-seminar-in-elizabeth-constituency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2012\/04\/self-starters-host-seminar-in-elizabeth-constituency","title":{"rendered":"Self Starters Host Seminar In Elizabeth Constituency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20450\" title=\"self-starter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/self-starter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/self-starter.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/self-starter-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/self-starter-250x115.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A group of successful Self Starter companies recently held a seminar for the interested public at the FMN\u2019s Elizabeth Constituency office.<\/p>\n<p>The four established entrepreneurs, who all got started with the help of the Ministry of Youth, Sports &amp; Culture\u2019s Self Starter Award to create successful businesses, shared their experience to a group of budding entrepreneurs who have their own business ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar participants were told how easy it is to apply for the Ministry\u2019s $5,000 award, how to choose a good business idea, where to get professional help, and how to create an impressive plan for the Self Starter Committee to review.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Duane Sands, FMN Candidate for Elizabeth Constituency, gave a short address, encouraging the 18-30 year olds to pursue their dreams and let the government help them get started.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured with Dr. Sands (L-R) are the seminar presenters: Mervin Sweeting from Switcha! Lemonade; Atario Mitchell from Bahamas Striping; Dr. Duane Sands; Sharell Carroll from SageEden Marketing Group; and Keshelle Kerr from Creative Wealth Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>The audience, some of whom shared potentially good business ideas, said the seminar was inspiring and gave them a good plan on to do next, including applying for the Self Starter grant.<\/p>\n<p>Bobby Bower<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of successful Self Starter companies recently held a seminar for the interested public at the FMN\u2019s Elizabeth Constituency office.  <\/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":[3],"tags":[153,348],"class_list":["post-20449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-entrepreneurs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449","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=20449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}