{"id":204819,"date":"2017-10-28T09:49:52","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/target\/honouring-the-best-in-journalism"},"modified":"2017-10-28T09:49:52","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T13:49:52","slug":"honouring-the-best-in-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2017\/10\/honouring-the-best-in-journalism","title":{"rendered":"Honouring The Best In Bahamas Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 180px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10262017_BahamasPressClubAwardsPressConference2JPG_t180.jpeg\" alt=\"Honouring The Best In Journalism\" width=\"180\" height=\"108\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Shawn Hanna\/Tribune Staff<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p id=\"mct_ai_excerpt\">THE BAHAMAS Press Club will hold its annual awards banquet on Saturday, November 18, honouring the best in Bahamian journalism.<\/p>\n<p>The banquet is held under the patronage of Governor General Dame Marguerite Pindling and Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis will be the keynote speaker.<\/p>\n<p>At a press conference yesterday, Bahamas Press Club President Anthony Capron said this year\u2019s event will give local journalists a \u201cpat on the back\u201d for a job well done.<\/p>\n<p>This year, three new categories have been added to the competition: University of The Bahamas Journalism Award (for UB students), The Press Club Person of the Year Award (to be chosen by The Press Club), and the PAHO-WHO Excellence in Health Promotion Award, sponsored by the Pan-American Health Organisation\/World Health Organisation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, the Bahamas Press Club honoured <em>Tribune <\/em>Editor and Publisher Eileen Dupuch Carron. Last year, the club\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award went to veteran broadcaster Calsey Johnson, the recent Bahamas high commissioner to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Judges include Hadassah Hall, Judy Terrell, Quincy Parker, Duke Wells, Ray Munnings, and Dr Esther de Gourville, PAHO-WHO country rep for The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held in the Windsor Rood of the Hilton. It is sponsored by Aliv and Bahamas Power and Light.<\/p>\n<p id=\"mct-ai-attriblink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tribune242.com\/news\/2017\/oct\/27\/honouring-the-best-in-journalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read the complete article at www.tribune242.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bahamas Press Club will hold its annual awards banquet on Saturday, November 18, honouring the best in Bahamian journalism. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":204820,"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":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-204819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204819","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=204819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}