{"id":43981,"date":"2013-11-29T08:42:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T13:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=43981"},"modified":"2013-11-29T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T14:22:17","slug":"bahamas-gains-seat-on-international-parliamentary-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/11\/bahamas-gains-seat-on-international-parliamentary-organization","title":{"rendered":"Bahamas Gains Seat On International Parliamentary Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-42421\" title=\"cheryl-bazard\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cheryl-bazard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cheryl-bazard.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cheryl-bazard-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/cheryl-bazard-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Senator Cheryl Bazard, principal of the law firm, Bazard &amp; Co., will become the first Bahamian to serve on the Board of Directors of ParlAmericas &#8211; an international body of legislatures working to strengthen democracy and governance in the hemisphere.<\/p>\n<p>ParlAmericas members meet annually at a Plenary Assembly hosted by a member state. At the 10th Plenary Assembly held in San Jos\u00c3\u00a9, Costa Rica, back in August, The Bahamas was elected to represent the Caribbean sub-region on the Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p>The current 15 elected members of ParlAmericas Board of Directors hail from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama and Suriname.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was nominated and elected by acclaim to the Board to represent not only The Bahamas, but the Caribbean sub-region, at the Plenary in Costa Rica,&#8221; Senator Bazard confirmed Wednesday. &#8220;I deem it an honour to have been elected by my peers after only a short introduction to this organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By invitation of ParlAmericas, Sentor Bazard attended two of the organization&#8217;s informative sessions this year. The first was a meeting held in May, that dealt with women in parliament. The second event was held in September in Costa Rica. It focused on food security.<\/p>\n<p>ParlAmericas was birthed in 2000 with the creation of a Steering Committee during a meeting of parliamentarians from OAS (Organization of American States) countries.<\/p>\n<p>A year later ParlAmerica held its inaugural meeting with a special ceremony held in Canada&#8217;s House of Commons.<\/p>\n<p>Known as FIPA (Inter-Parliamentary Forum of the Americas) up to September 2011, ParlAmericas comprises 35 independent states with representatives from North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America.<\/p>\n<p>The organization aims to promote parliamentary participation in the Inter-American system, facilitate parliamentary dialogue on issues of current hemispheric concern and provide training for parliamentarians.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Against such backdrop, it is a privilege to lend my voice not only to issues within the jurisdiction but also within the hemisphere on topics ranging from security to increasing the number of women parliamentarians,&#8221; said Senator Bazard.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Bazard is the founding president of the Bahamas Association of Compliance Officers. She was appointed to the Senate in May 2012.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>By Precision Media<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Cheryl Bazard will become the first Bahamian on the Board of Directors of ParlAmericas &#8211; an international body of legislatures working to strengthen democracy and governance in the hemisphere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":42421,"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":[3],"tags":[153,98,168],"class_list":["post-43981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-2","tag-financial","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43981","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\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}