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Bahamas
at Mauritius Strategy Implementation - Small Islands Voice Planning
Meeting, July 2005
The Bahamas
were represented at this meeting by Ms Portia Sweeting of the
Ministry of Education.
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Portia
Sweeting in St. Vincent and the Grenadines
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Visiting
the Old Hegg Turtle Sanctuary |
During the
meeting she made a presentation about Small Islands Voice activities
in the Bahamas, including the Youth
Focus event in January 2004, the survey of five of the Family
Islands, and the participation of two Bahamian schools in the
UNESCO Community Sandwatch
Competition in 2005. She also discussed other ongoing youth
activities in the Bahamas such as camping and boating excursions,
school gardens and composting, and a beach buddy programme. To
find out more about some of these activities see a powerpoint
presentation.
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