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Clay Sweeting
Clay Glennford Sweeting (born 21 December 1985) is a Bahamian politician from the Progressive Liberal Party currently serving as MP for Central and South Eleuthera. Early life Sweeting was born in Spanish Wells, Eleuthera. He attended Spanish Wells All Age School and went on to graduate from Teesside University. Political career On 20 September 2021 he was appointed Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources. In 2024, in a cabinet shuffle, his cabinet portfolio was changed to Minister of Works and Family Island Affairs. References See also * 14th Bahamian Parliament The 14th Bahamian Parliament is the current sitting of the Parliament of the Bahamas, Parliament of The Bahamas. It was elected in the 2021 Bahamian general election. Members MPs Senators https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/portal/public/the% ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Sweeting, Clay Living people 1985 births 21st-century Bahamian politicians Agriculture ministers of the Bahamas Alumni of Teesside Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Liberal Party (Bahamas)
The Progressive Liberal Party (Abbreviation, abbreviated PLP) is a Populism, populist and Social liberalism, social liberal party in the Bahamas. Philip Davis (Bahamian politician), Philip Davis is the leader of the party. History The PLP was founded in 1953 by William Cartwright (Bahamian politician), William Cartwright, Cyril Stevenson, and Henry Milton Taylor. The PLP was the first national political party in the Bahamas. The party governed for 25 straight years from 1967 to 1992, as well as from 2002 to 2007 and 2012 to 2017. Leading the party to its first victory in 1967 was Lynden Pindling, the country's first Prime Minister. Perry Christie was Prime Minister of the Bahamas between 2 May 2002 and 2007 Bahamian general election, the 2007 general elections, when the party was defeated by the rival Free National Movement (FNM) which won 23 seats of the 41 seats. The FNM installed leader Hubert Ingraham as the Prime Minister. After defeat and one of its MPs leaving the party ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Parliament Of The Bahamas
The Parliament of The Bahamas is the bicameral national parliament of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. The parliament is formally made up of the sovereign (represented by the governor-general), an appointed Senate, and an elected House of Assembly. It currently sits at the Bahamian Parliament Building in Nassau, the national capital. The structure, functions, and procedures of the parliament are based on the Westminster system. History Originally inhabited by the Lucayan people, a branch of the Arawakan-speaking Taino people, the Bahamas were the site of Columbus's first landfall in the New World in 1492. Although the Spanish never colonized the Bahamas, they shipped the native Lucayans to slavery in Hispaniola. The islands were mostly deserted from 1513 until 1648, when English colonists from Bermuda settled on the island of Eleuthera. In 1670 King Charles II granted the islands to the lords proprietors of the Carolinas, who rented the islands from the king with right ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Central And South Eleuthera
Central and South Eleuthera is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Assembly of the Bahamas. It elects one member of parliament (MP) using the First past the post electoral system. It has been represented by Clay Sweeting from the Progressive Liberal Party since 2021. Geography The constituency comprises the districts of Central Eleuthera and South Eleuthera South Eleuthera is one of the districts of the Bahamas, on the island of Eleuthera. The district had a population of 4,955 in 2010. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Progressive Liberal Party
The Progressive Liberal Party (abbreviated PLP) is a populist and social liberal party in the Bahamas. Philip Davis is the leader of the party. History The PLP was founded in 1953 by William Cartwright, Cyril Stevenson, and Henry Milton Taylor. The PLP was the first national political party in the Bahamas. The party governed for 25 straight years from 1967 to 1992, as well as from 2002 to 2007 and 2012 to 2017. Leading the party to its first victory in 1967 was Lynden Pindling, the country's first Prime Minister. Perry Christie was Prime Minister of the Bahamas between 2 May 2002 and the 2007 general elections, when the party was defeated by the rival Free National Movement (FNM) which won 23 seats of the 41 seats. The FNM installed leader Hubert Ingraham as the Prime Minister. After defeat and one of its MPs leaving the party since, the PLP held 17 of the 41 seats in the Bahamas National Assembly. In the 2012 general election, the Progressive Liberals won a solid m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Wells
Spanish Wells is a district of the Bahamas. The settlement consists of a medium-sized town on the island of St. George's Cay wide by long, located approximately off the northern tip of Eleuthera island. According to the 2022 census, it has a population of 1,608 residents. It is the only majority white district in The Bahamas. Overview Spanish Wells is extended by a bridge that links it to neighboring Russell Island, which is long and has become an integral part of the community. Spanish Wells is so small that many residents get around the island using golf carts instead of full-sized cars. Spanish Wells is known for its white powdery beaches, tropical breezes, laid back atmospheres and friendly people. History Historically, the island was used as a last stop for the Spanish treasure fleet returning to Europe and the Iberian Peninsula. Spanish galleons and Spain's medieval ships refilled their water supply from wells created for this purpose - thus the English name of the set ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teesside University
Teesside University is a public university with its main campus in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire in North East England. It was officially opened as ''Constantine Technical College'' in 1930, before becoming a polytechnic in 1969, and finally granted university status in 1992 by the Privy Council (United Kingdom), Privy Council. The university has over 22,500 students studying in the UK, according to the 2021/22 HESA student record. History A shortage of funding long proved a barrier to developing the Middlesbrough-based Mechanics' Institute of 1844. With the required funding, the college's launch could have come as early as 1914. Even after the donation of £40,000 to build the college from local shipping business magnate, magnate Joseph Constantine in 1916, progress was slow. A Governing Council took place in 1922, followed by a doubling of the original financial offer by the Constantine family in 1924. For the task of constructing the first technical college building, Grah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
14th Bahamian Parliament
The 14th Bahamian Parliament is the current sitting of the Parliament of the Bahamas, Parliament of The Bahamas. It was elected in the 2021 Bahamian general election. Members MPs Senators https://www.bahamas.gov.bs/wps/portal/public/the%20government/legislative/senators/senators/!ut/p/b1/vZTNkqIwFIWfZR6AJtEQcBkFIyi_AgIbS-RHQIRWBMnTjz01i56pmu5ZTE-yStWXnHvOvRU-4gM-uhz6Ij90RXM5nN_OEd5PAdUJQZJOBYCB6lkbYomriQmFJxB-ACDw2f0dHwQhnMuNnivKrgc53OiV7UyyMLyXijd_dZ3hWCqSkKJDYvnZOOulHaUTR896Xa3gUixQfnso-d2fCFgpg3LpjG1w24N7v2eZUY1C3Ijs5Gm-pmfn65JbzC4pOpHl1b1sYzYotXAAiY2zCq1uZZcsd_fbsqHeMbtDvG861Uz6jsty2akVj_z0C_6wyF_4jT5E1pNPgLdIfwAf1BA-AfHdC64PgAoBcbbQBpIBeZcPANpvy7FVWcWckjlqdyWDy5QRyL5hlLFruAq7JXPDkD0GPMBcgJheRtq21Idt4lqJ73hzsohtBtLfBc2JO3sKLiBeewLYAvTVglQwpWdGomsRYQKoCf-34PS_RkotE3y5w1-GBtn_vocaHxVx_TIc6xfwIs0wFEQJzSQMEJJE3i9DPHt-C4OsOllrD2nB4DTkJLldPPxcIYXgcdpi73YU01eg4ETszUSQb15qWLpkq0q3eGxitw1mkjK_HkUszx2XqoSO0Trz7BUcYmssTUDXWCfHmkr9FOQecwQ_LKBZwdOmzeKqsPbROTK0c69FBUp2wUVT010ibbio4N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. By adding an article to this category, it marks them with a notice about sources whenever someone tries to edit them, to remind them of WP:BLP (biographies of living persons) policy that these articles must maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and be properly sourced. Recent changes to these articles are listed on Special:RecentChangesLinked/Living people. Organization: This category should not be sub-categorized. Entries are generally sorted by family name In many societies, a surname, family name, or last name is the mostly hereditary portion of one's personal name that indicates one's family. It is typically combined with a given name to form the full name of a person, although several give .... Maintenance: Individuals of advanced age (over 90), for whom there has been no new documentation in the last ten ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1985 Births
The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a new agreement on fishing rights. * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States space exploration programs, United States or the Soviet space program, Soviet Union. * January 15 – Tancredo Neves is Brazilian presidential election, 1985, elected president of Brazil by the National Congress of Brazil, Congress, ending the Military dictatorship in Brazil, 21-year military rule. * January 27 – The Economic Cooperation Organization, Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is formed, in Tehran. * January 28 – The charity single record "We Are the World" is recorded by USA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Bahamian Politicians
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Agriculture Ministers Of The Bahamas
Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in the cities. While humans started gathering grains at least 105,000 years ago, nascent farmers only began planting them around 11,500 years ago. Sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle were domesticated around 10,000 years ago. Plants were independently cultivated in at least 11 regions of the world. In the 20th century, industrial agriculture based on large-scale monocultures came to dominate agricultural output. , small farms produce about one-third of the world's food, but large farms are prevalent. The largest 1% of farms in the world are greater than and operate more than 70% of the world's farmland. Nearly 40% of agricultural land is found on farms larger than . However, five of every six farms in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alumni Of Teesside University
Alumni (: alumnus () or alumna ()) are former students or graduates of a school, college, or university. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women, and alums (: alum) or alumns (: alumn) as gender-neutral alternatives. The word comes from Latin, meaning nurslings, pupils or foster children, derived from "to nourish". The term is not synonymous with "graduates": people can be alumni without graduating, e.g. Burt Reynolds was an alumnus of Florida State University but did not graduate. The term is sometimes used to refer to former employees, former members of an organization, former contributors, or former inmates. Etymology The Latin noun means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from the Latin verb "to nourish". Separate, but from the same root, is the adjective "nourishing", found in the phrase ''alma mater'', a title for a person's home university. Usage in Roman law In Latin, is a legal term (Roman law) to describe a child placed in fosterag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
