“Once this exhibition is over, our work continues to prepare for Cabinet the latest implementation strategies that are happening in the 32 maritime related agencies, companies and departments that make up the committee,” she said. National Maritime Policy Implementation Committee chairperson Rev Angela Palacious said her mandate as a part of the committee has been trying to implement the National Maritime Policy, created in 2015, which she said will be upgraded and updated shortly. And we just got approval to expand reservist component, so now we are advertising for industry professionals who wish to join our reserve unit,” Commodore King said. “We are now aggressively recruiting, for our next entry we’re looking for possibly 200 recruits come July. We’re looking at procuring about four of those right now,” he said. “We are also procuring some smaller vessels, what we call safe boats, they are coastal patrol vessels. We want to have that capacity and capability of deploying to multiple islands at the same time,” Commodore King said. “We’re in the procurement process to acquire another 62-metre patrol craft, another auxiliary vessel or roll-on/roll-off vessel in the event of the eventuality or the unfaithful incidence whereby you have multiple islands affected by a storm or hurricane. “The government is looking at a public private partnership (PPP) as a financing mechanism to fund the growth of our bases in the southern and northern regions of The Bahamas,” Commodore King said. We discussed the need to broaden that particular agreement,” he said. There is an agreement that we signed in early 1982. We looked at the possibility of strengthening the agreements that we have. “I just returned from a Northern Caribbean Security Summit, which brought the stakeholders together, Turks and Caicos, the United States and The Bahamas. “So we would agree formally to work together to combat all those transnational threats like illegal fishing, migrant smuggling, arms and weapons smuggling, drug smuggling and so we’re looking forward to that agreement with the Republic of Cuba in April,” Commodore King said. “There’s a comprehensive maritime agreement talks and discussions that would’ve started a few years ago, we are now poised to recommence those discussions in April,” he said. “With respect to partnerships, we have a very strong relationship with the United States of America, Turks and Caicos, and we’re strengthening our relationship with the Republic of Cuba,” Commodore King said. Tribune Staff Royal Bahamas Defence Force is aggressively recruiting new officers and is in the process of expanding the agency’s fleet, according to RBDF Commodore Raymond King yesterday.Ĭommodore King spoke to reporters about the progress of partnerships, procurements and recruitment initiatives for the RBDF on the sidelines of the National Maritime Exhibit and Career Fair at the Mall at Marathon.
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