Elliston Rahming is a Bahamian diplomat, criminologist, educator and politician.

Biography

Born in Black Point,

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, Bahamas (April 25, 1954) to Daisy and Ishmael Rahming, he attended Bahamas Academy and college preparatory at Rochester Cooperative College in

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Education

Rahming earned a bachelor's in Sociology from

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. He later earned a masters in social work and Ph.D with an emphasis in Criminology from

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. He is a graduate of the Houston, Texas-based Anger Management Training Institute as an Anger Resolution Therapist and has completed study tours of forty prisons in fifteen countries.

Career

He served as Special Advisors to two Bahamian Prime Ministers: Consultant Advisor on Crime within the Ministry of National Security; Executive Director of the Y.M.C.A. of Greater Miami; founder and executive director of Respect Academy (now Westminster College) in Nassau, Bahamas; Member of the Bahamas Senate (1992 – 1997); Secretary General of The Progressive Liberal Party; Commissioner (Superintendent) of the Department of Corrections of The Bahamas (2005 – 2013); Bahamas Ambassador to the United Nations and the O.A.S. (Organization of American States); C.E.O. of The InterTech Group (provider of security and investigation services) and President of Common Ground, an Anger Management and Mediation Training Institute. He was National Chairman of the Bahamas Duke of Edinburgh Youth Awards Program (now Governor General’s Youth Award Program).

Honors

Rahming is an inductee into the National Deans’ List (U.S.A.); Who’s Who Among Students in American Colleges and Universities; listed in Jones Communications’ ‘Bahamian Living Legends’ and selected by Bethune-Cookman University among its “Magnificent 100” – a tribute to the top 100 graduates.

Publication

Greatest Blacks Ever: Top 100 Blacks Who Changed The World for Peace, Progress, Prosperity and Pleasure. Dogear Publishing, 2017.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahming, Elliston 1954 births Living people Ambassadors of the Bahamas to the United States Permanent representatives of the Bahamas to the United Nations Criminologists Bethune–Cookman University alumni Progressive Liberal Party politicians George Warren Brown School of Social Work alumni