“In 1984, I entered the College of The Bahamas as a first year student.\u00a0 In 1985, I had the honour of being elected president of the College of The Bahamas Union of Students (COBUS).\u00a0 In that position, it was my good fortune to have many opportunities to interact with Dr. Keva Bethel, who was then president of the College.<\/p>\n
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Whether on the College Council or simply engaging in discussions regarding the interests of students on the campus, I found in Dr. Bethel a woman of remarkable character, wisdom, grace and professionalism.\u00a0 No matter the issue, she was ever calm, even tempered and always willing to listen with thoughtfulness and understanding.<\/p>\n
To me, she exemplified leadership of the premier tertiary education institution in our nation; I became and remain a greater admirer of this remarkable woman.\u00a0 When faced with difficult decisions, opposition and the extraordinary demands of my roles as president of COBUS and a double major science student, her counsel helped me set my priorities right and to make decisions based on logic rather than mere emotions.\u00a0 She was very much a contributor to my leadership development in those days.<\/p>\n
My experience at the College I am sure can be recounted by countless other alumni who had the fortune of meeting and interacting with this giant of a Bahamian woman.\u00a0 Her dignity and high ideals imbued the campus of our College of The Bahamas with a sense of excellence, for which we were motivated to strive.\u00a0 She poured her life into the College and gave much to it and to our nation.<\/p>\n
It is with the greatest sadness that I learned of her passing and express deep condolences to her family at this difficult time of their lives.\u00a0 The whole family of the College of The Bahamas, past and present, I am sure, abounds with admiration for Dr. Keva Bethel and celebrates her legacy in building the foundations of tertiary education in The Bahamas.\u00a0 May her soul rest in peace.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
State Minister Zhivargo Laing pays tribute to Dr Keva Bethel for her substantial contributions to Bahamian society.<\/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":[18],"tags":[46,21,141],"class_list":["post-6383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-celebrities","tag-educational","tag-obituary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383","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=6383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}