The Nassau International Airport will be renamed the Lynden Pindling International Airport during a ceremony on Thursday, July 6 at 9.30am, the government officially announced yesterday.<\/p>\n
Governor General Arthur Hanna and Prime Minister Perry Christie will head a list of dignitaries at the event.<\/p>\n
Lady Marguerite Pindling, widow of former prime minister the late Sir Lynden Pindling, will unveil a plaque in honour of her husband.<\/p>\n
The ceremony will feature cultural performances by the South Andros High School, the National Youth Choir, the Royal Bahamas Police Force and Royal Bahamas Defence Force combined band and a junkanoo rush-out.<\/p>\n
Between 9.30 am and 2pm, the Royal Bahamas Police Force will restrict traffic access to the airport.<\/p>\n
The public is further advised that if they are travelling by air or attending the ceremony, they must follow police directions for parking.<\/p>\n
During this time, the use of Coral Harbour Road is restricted to those travelling or attending the ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
To further glorify the illegal drug trade that has enriched so many Bahamians, the government of The Bahamas will rename the airport after one of the nation’s biggest drug dealers, Lynden Pindling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242665","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}