{"id":31965,"date":"2013-02-20T22:09:11","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T03:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=31965"},"modified":"2013-02-20T22:09:11","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T03:09:11","slug":"farewell-reception-for-british-honorary-consul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/02\/farewell-reception-for-british-honorary-consul","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Reception For British Honorary Consul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31966\" title=\"consul\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/consul.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/consul.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/consul-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/consul-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>British High Commissioner Howard Drake has thanked outgoing British Honorary Consul Peter Young for his many years \u201coutstanding service\u201d and invaluable contribution to both the British Government and the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>He made his comments at a farewell reception that he hosted for Mr Young at the Breezes Hotel on Monday night. He also welcomed Mr Young\u2019s successor, Mrs Rosamund Roberts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeter,\u201d said Mr Howard, \u201cis of the old school and it\u2019s been a pleasure dealing with him. In all his years, I have been struck by how professional and how committed he is to providing the service that he is here for. He has been a great servant for us. He has really done his country proud.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In congratulating Mrs Rosamund Roberts, who was appointed British Honorary Consul on December 1,\u00a0Mr Young said she was \u201cabsolutely the ideal person to take over this job.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Caption: British Honorary Consul Rosamund Roberts (left) British High Commissioner Howard Drake (middle) and Former British Honorary Consul Peter Young (right). Photo: Kyle Smith <\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing British Honorary Consul Peter Young was thanked for his many years of service to the British Government and the Bahamas. Mr Young\u2019s successor is Mrs Rosamund Roberts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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":[133],"class_list":["post-31965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}