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Another Grand Bahama businessman has come forward to assist the initiatives of The Grand Bahama Cultural Carnival Company [GBCCC] as it presents \u2018The Grand Life – Grand Bahama Island:\u00a0 The road leading to Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival\u2019.\u00a0 Mr. Mario Donato has sponsored a prime shop space in the Regent Centre, Down Town Freeport for the business operations and sale of costumes and authentically Grand-Bahamian products for GBCCC, a Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival company.<\/p>\n
Grand Bahama Island is poised to benefit from events leading to Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival May 7th \u2013 9th 2015, with its own events scheduled for April 17th \u2013 18th 2015.\u00a0 GBCCC will also proudly represent Grand Bahama Island in Nassau in May 2015.<\/p>\n
This corporate donation comes on the heels of an appeal from Prime Minister, The Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie for Corporate Bahamas to support Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival, as it is intended to not only be another venue for Junkanoo to be showcased, but will transform Junkanoo and Bahamian arts and culture into a profitable industry from which all Bahamians can benefit.\u00a0 In his address to Corporate Grand Bahama in late August, the Prime Minister passionately expressed, \u201cThis is a national major event and I want Grand Bahama as a major participant\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mario Donato is the second Grand Bahama businessman to come forward in the last few weeks to assist in ensuring that Grand Bahama benefits from Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival.\u00a0 Grand Bahama businessman, Peter Hunt was the first to provide funding to each of the Junkanoo Groups for the development of prototypes for the carnival costumes to be sold by GBCCC under \u2018The Grand Life\u2019 theme.<\/p>\n
GBCCC is a coming together of Junkanoo Groups and authentic Bahamian product providers throughout the community of Grand Bahama in an effort to become a premier Carnival Company in The Bahamas.\u00a0 GBCCC will provide the highest level of quality costumes, other Grand Bahamian-made products, and exciting opportunities for the staging of Carnival events.<\/p>\n
GBCCC\u2019s mission is to become a leading cultural carnival company that enriches the lives of culture seekers, and brings significant benefits to those who make a living from the culture of The Bahamas.\u00a0 It is GBCCC\u2019s objective to foster community development while utilizing culture to create entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n
The primary goal of the company is the promotion of entrepreneurs in the area of cultural product development for The Bahamas.\u00a0 This NGO will make an annual contribution to local Junkanoo Groups to continue the growth and development of the national festival of The Bahamas, and focuses on the advancement of authentically made Bahamian products.<\/p>\n
Phase II of the organization involves the development of a Grand Bahama Cultural Museum and Junkanoo Village to support the advancement of culture on GBI; to provide a venue for visitors and locals to experience culture; and to house winning Junkanoo pieces year-round.<\/p>\n
Immerse Bahamas<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Photo Caption: Donato gives to GBCCC: From L to R:\u00a0 Sanique Culmer, Ministry of Tourism and Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival Committee Member; Mario Donato Jr.; Mario Donato Sr., Local Businessman; Ginger M. Moxey, Immerse Bahamas and Consultant to BNFC; and Carmel Churchill, Grand Bahama Island Tourism Board and Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival Committee Member.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another Grand Bahama businessman has come forward to assist the initiatives of The Grand Bahama Cultural Carnival Company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":84965,"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":[4,204],"tags":[1579,269,2040],"class_list":["post-84964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-featured","tag-carnival","tag-festival","tag-tousinm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84964","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=84964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}