{"id":3609,"date":"2010-10-29T08:24:29","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T12:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2010-10-29T09:57:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T13:57:23","slug":"national-awareness-month-ends-with-careers-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/10\/national-awareness-month-ends-with-careers-fair","title":{"rendered":"National Awareness Month Ends With Careers Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3611\" style=\"width: 486px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3611 \" title=\"careers-fair\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/careers-fair.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"486\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/careers-fair.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/careers-fair-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/careers-fair-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 486px) 100vw, 486px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minister of Education, the Hon. Desmond Bannister takes a tour of the booths during the third annual National Career Fair held at the Kendal Isaacs Gym October 26 \u2013 28.  BIS Photo\/Derek Smith.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Ministry of\u00a0 Education, along with a cross-section of business and allied partners, held the third annual National Careers Fair on October 26 \u2013 28.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Education, the Hon. Desmond Bannister officially opened the three-day event during on Wednesday, October 27 at the Kendal Isaacs Gym in Oakes Field. The Fair was part of a month of activities held during the month of October which exposed students to a cross-section of careers.<\/p>\n<p>Held under the theme, &#8216;Empowerment, Education, Entrepreneurship, Excellence: The keys to career satisfaction,&#8217; this year&#8217;s fair placed special emphasis on entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>During National Awareness month, some of the activities included school based activities held October 1 \u2013 29; a teleconference with Grand Bahama, Abaco, Exuma, Eleuthera, Andros and Inagua on October 7 and Speakers circuits for students on the Family Islands which began October 4.<\/p>\n<p>The month of activities culminated with the National Careers Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Partners included: The Rotary Club of Nassau Sunrise; The Ministry of Tourism &amp; Aviation; The Maritime Authority; Bahamas Hotel Association; The College of The Bahamas; Bahamas Information Services; The Lyford Cay Foundation; Ministry of Youth, Sports &amp; Culture; Ministry of Agriculture &amp; Marine Resources; Bahamas Independent Secondary Schools Association; Bahamas Telecommunications Company Ltd; Bahamas Financial Services Board; Bahamas Business Solutions Ltd; KPMG; Royal Bahamas Police Force; Department of Labour; Royal Bahamas Defence Force; Ministry of The Environment; Ministry of Health and Public Health Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Held under the theme, &#8216;Empowerment, Education, Entrepreneurship, Excellence: The keys to career satisfaction,&#8217; this year&#8217;s fair placed special emphasis on entrepreneurship. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[1],"tags":[40],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local","tag-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}