{"id":49495,"date":"2014-02-20T08:39:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T13:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=49495"},"modified":"2014-02-24T12:48:15","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T17:48:15","slug":"education-minister-visits-seahorse-institute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2014\/02\/education-minister-visits-seahorse-institute","title":{"rendered":"Education Minister Visits Seahorse Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-49496\" alt=\"seahorse-institute-bahamas1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/seahorse-institute-bahamas1.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jerome Fitzgerald, Minister of Education, Science and Technology recently visited the Seahorse Institute at the new location on Soldier Road. The Institute\u2019s former facility on Shirley Street was destroyed by fire over a year ago. Dr. Michelle Major, the Clinical Director, took the Minister on a tour of the Institute. While there, Minister Fitzgerald read the story, \u2018Buzz, Buzz Busy Bees\u2019 to the students.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-49497\" alt=\"seahorse-institute-bahamas2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/seahorse-institute-bahamas2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>The Seahorse Institute provides education and therapeutic support to children with special needs such as Autism and Down Syndrome. When asked about the reason for the name choice of the institute, Dr. Major shared an interesting fact.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that in nature, females usually give birth; however, male seahorses give birth. \u201cThere\u2019s never a never. Things are not always the way that they are supposed to be. Our work with the children at Seahorse is evidence of this\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Captions:<br \/>\nJerome Fitzgerald, Minister of Education, Science and Technology visited the Seahorse Institute and read a story to the students.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Fitzgerald took a tour of the Seahorse Institute. He is pictured above with Dr. Michelle Major and students, Uthan Cornish and Kathryn Turnquest.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">Ministry of Education, Science and Technology<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">(Photos by Aletha Cooper)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerome Fitzgerald, Minister of Education, Science and Technology recently visited the Seahorse Institute at the new location on Soldier Road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":49496,"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":[18],"tags":[334,21,1994],"class_list":["post-49495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-children","tag-educational","tag-scholl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49495","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=49495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}