Left Photo: Rev. Shawn Ingraham and Habitat for Humanity (HFH) representative, Alfred McCullough. Right Photo: Frank Minaya, Caroline Caroline Kroeker-Falconi, Caribbean HFH Regional Director, Judson Wilmott, Bahamian HFH liaison, and Richard Webber, HFH Regional Support Center Director.

Left Photo: Gregory W. Pletz, Frank Minaya and Dr. Elliston Rhaming, Commissioner of The Bahamas Prison Reform Commission. Right Photo: Frank Minaya, HMP Technical Vocational Training Center Builder, Gregory W. Pletz, and Edwin Culmer, Superintendent of Her Majesty's Prison at Fox Hill.

Frank Minaya discussed with Special Assistant to the Prime Minister, Dr. Elliston Rhaming, Commissioner of The Bahamas Prison Reform Commission, and Christine Ta, Director of Habitat for Humanity's Prison Partnership Program, cooperative efforts between HFH and Her Majesty's Prison (HMP). Mr. Minaya also had an opportunity to meet with Dr. Rhaming to discuss plans for moving the HMP Cultural Art Therapy Programme, initiated by the Bahamian American Partnership in the late 1990's, to the new HMP Technical Vocational Training Centre.

Left Photo: Edward P. Fitzgerald, Marina C. Glinton, Director General of The Bahamas Red Cross Society, Frank Minaya. Right Photo: Melvin Seymour, Undersecretary of of The Bahamas Ministry of Housing and National Insurance, Gregory W. Pletz, Financial Advisor, Merrill Lynch Global Strategy Group: The Bahamas/Caribbean, and Frank Minaya.

Left Photo: Frank Minaya, Dr. Gail Saunders, Board Chairwoman of National Art Gallery of The Bahamas, and Ed Bethel, Consul General of The Bahamas (NY). Right Photo: Dr. Gail Saunders with members of the Bahamian American Association.

Left Photo: Writer, Educator, Humanitarian, Actor, and legendary Comedian, Bill Cosby, signs a copy of his latest book, Friends of a Feather: One of Life's Little Fables, for publisher Doug Coppi at the newly opened Hue-Man Bookstore in Harlem. Hue-Man Bookstore has quickly become the pre-eminent staging area for black authors to introduce their new books. Right Photo: Hue-Man Bookstore President and Managing Partner, Clara Villarosa, and Doug Coppi.

Keith Wisdom, revered as the Larry King of The Bahamas, is also a highly accomplished painter, recently exhibiting a number of his recent works in Nassau.

Mr. Wisdom is the son of the late Walter Wisdom who, in the 1960s worked closely with Frank Minaya and the Cat and Fiddle Nightclub to bring such entertainers as Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Sammy Davis Jr., Nat King Cole, Count Basie, Benny King, Paul Anka, and Frank Sinatra Jr. & the Pied Pipers, to The Bahamas.

Frank Minaya met with Leslie Vanderpool, Artistic Director and Founder of The Bahamas International Film Festival regarding the Banana Boat Beat, film. Produced by Frank Minaya, 'Banana Boat Beat' was the very first full-length feature film ever created in The Bahamas, and Mr. Minaya was able to forward several rare film clips of the film to Ms. Vanderpool.

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