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Continuing the U.S.-Bahamas partnership under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), on Thursday, February 6 United States Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires John Dinkelman formally donated a 2014 Ford Expedition Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) valued at over $40,000 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration for use in Freeport, Grand Bahama.<\/p>\n
The custom-made vehicle, donated through the United States Embassy\u2019s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Section (INL), will enhance the Department of Immigration\u2019s capabilities to fight transnational crime, including human smuggling and trafficking in persons, in Freeport, Grand Bahama.<\/p>\n
At the formal handover Charg\u00e9 Dinkelman noted \u201cThe Department of Immigration is an important partner in our joint fight against transnational crime,\u201d adding the donation \u201cfurther deepens our regional security partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n
On hand for the presentation was Deputy Prime Minister Phillip \u201cBrave\u201d Davis, Permanent Secretary Philip Miller, Parliamentary Secretary Cleola Hamilton, Director of Immigration William Pratt, Assistant Director of Immigration Fausteen Major-Smith, Assistant Director of Immigration, Northern Region, James Rolle, Senior Immigration Officer Jerome Hutcheson, and other senior officials.<\/p>\n
Director of Immigration William Pratt told assembled officials that the timing of the donation was \u201cexcellent,\u201d and that the new resource would help enable the Department of Immigration to investigate complex smuggling operations through the archipelago. Continuing the U.S.-Bahamas partnership under the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative, United States Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires John Dinkelman formally donated a 2014 Ford Expedition Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) to the Foreign Affairs and Immigration Ministry for use in Freeport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":48285,"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":[110,61,41,113],"class_list":["post-48284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-autos","tag-charity","tag-immigration","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48284","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nUnited States Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires John Dinkelman formally presents 2014 SUV to Deputy Prime Minister Phillip \u201cBrave\u201d Davis at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Immigration.\u00a0 A number of senior U.S. and Bahamian government officials were on hand for the handover ceremony.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"