Special Events and Promotions
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Grand
Bahama Boat Show
April 19-22, 2001
On a grand scale, V.I.P. Services Ltd. organised the Grand Bahama
Boat Show on beautiful, new Running Mon Marina. The 4-day event included
exciting boat races, receptions, dinners, daily fashion shows, air sea demonstrations,
exhibits and
the first
GB
Poker Run. The marina featured new floating docks and first class restaurants
and the show had new boats for brokerage and charter.
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HOYTES
V.I.P. Services Ltd. values "Helping Our Youth Through Education and Sports" and
has been involved in various benefits, such as the annual Geneva Rutherford
Ladies Basketball Tournament and Classic.
Mario Green, HOYTES scholarship recipient and former Harlem Globetrotter,
also took the time out from his vacation to Grand Bahama Island to coach
HOYTES basketball players at the Basil Neymour Park on Coral Road. The HOYTES
players
practice
every Saturday morning.
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Arun
Gandhi
V.I.P. Services Ltd. welcomed Mahatma Gandhi's grandson, Arun Gandhi,
when he visited Grand Bahama for public appearances and speaking
engagements
for the M. K. Gandhi Institute
for Non-Violence. Arun Gandhi's message was about "Non-Violence or Non-Existence:
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Official
State Visits*
V.I.P. Services Ltd. coordinates numerous official state visits and foreign
dignitary tours. The Chinese Amabassador to the Bahamas, His Excellency Jiao
Dongcun is among many from around the world who have visited Grand Bahama. |
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Official State Visits and Dignitary Tours
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Queen
Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, 1994, official opening of Garnet
Levarity Supreme Court Building and official visit to Hugh Campbell
School
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Ireland's
Prime Minister Albert Reynold, 1994, private luncheon and tour
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Sir
Dennis and Lady Margaret Thatcher, 1999
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Zimbabwe
Delegates to CARICOM and International Press, 1985
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Sir Sidney Poitier, Bahamian non-resident Ambassador
to Japan, 1998
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Bahamian Prime Minister, The Rt. Honourable Hubert
A. Ingraham, 1999, local government tour
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His Excellency Mr. Peter Young, British High Commissioner,
1999
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His
Excellency Adolf Ederer Ambassador Designate of The Federal Republic
of Germany, 1998
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His
Excellency Lazaro Cabezas, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba,
1999
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Her
Excellency Thandi Lthuli-Gcabshe, High Commissioner of the Republic
of South Africa, 1999
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Ambassador
Ma Shuxue and Officials from the Embassy of The People's Republic
of China, 1997
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Baroness
Elizabeth Symons, Undersecretary to the British Foreign Minister,
1998
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International
Maritime Organizations, 1997, lunch and tour of Container Port
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