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FREEPORT \u2013 Members of the National Emergency Management Agency and top officials from the United States Coast Guard and the U.S. Embassy held what was described as a meet, greet, mix and mingle luncheon with disaster stakeholders on Grand Bahama Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The luncheon was held at the Ruby Swiss Restaurant and dubbed a \u201cBlack Swan\u201d lunch reception.\u00a0 Black Swan is the code name given to the rescue operation which will be conducted on Grand Bahama April 1-5, 2013.<\/p>\n
Also attending the luncheon was Senator Julian Russell who brought greetings on behalf of the Prime Minister and the entire parliamentary team for Grand Bahama.<\/p>\n
He told the gathering that \u201cthe Government of The Bahamas is indeed pleased that an operation of this magnitude will take place on Grand Bahama, which is considered the industrial and maritime hub of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Bahamas, especially, Grand Bahama is no stranger to the devastating effects of natural disasters. Subsequently, the Government of The Bahamas recognises the necessity for its agencies to liaise and work collaboratively with personnel from neighbouring countries to implement and enforce procedures that will increase awareness and ensure preparedness in the event of a catastrophic occurrence that requires mass rescue operations at sea or ashore,\u201d he told the gathering.<\/p>\n
Further, Senator Russell noted that it was his understanding that the luncheon allowed all the key players in the exercise to meet, establish communications and to be advised about the milestones in the planning process.<\/p>\n
He went on to express his gratitude to \u201cthe organisers of this exercise, for bringing together this team of highly qualified individuals from The Bahamas and the United States, whom I am certain, will facilitate this mass rescue operation, response and recovery exercise, with little to no error.\u201d<\/p>\n
By SIMON LEWIS <\/em> HAPPY MOOD \u2013 Senator Julian Russell is pictured left along with Assistant Commissioner of Police Emrick Seymour, and Mr. John Armstrong, Acting Deputy Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy, Nassau, during a Black Swan luncheon on Tuesday afternoon at the Ruby Swiss Restaurant. (BIS Photo\/ Vandyke Hepburn)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Black Swan is the code name given to the rescue operation which will be conducted on Grand Bahama April 1-5, 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[5],"tags":[81],"class_list":["post-31323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-grand-bahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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