Elliston Rahming

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

Biography[edit]

Born in Black Point, South Andros, Bahamas (April 25, 1954) to Daisy and Ishmael Rahming, he attended Bahamas Academy and college preparatory at Rochester Cooperative College in Rochester, NY.[1]

Education[edit]

Rahming earned a bachelor's in Sociology from Bethune–Cookman University. He later earned a masters in social work and Ph.D with an emphasis in Criminology from George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. 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[edit]

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;[2] 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);[3] Bahamas Ambassador to the United Nations and the O.A.S.[4][5][6] (Organization of American States); C.E.O. of The InterTech Group[7] (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[edit]

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[edit]

Greatest Blacks Ever: Top 100 Blacks Who Changed The World for Peace, Progress, Prosperity and Pleasure.[8]  Dogear Publishing, 2017.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Dr. Elliston Rahming: Ambassador To The United States | Local News". www.southbahamasconference.org. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  2. ^ "New Permanent Representative of Bahamas Presents Credentials | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". www.un.org. Retrieved 2020-06-02.
  3. ^ "Rahming to be ambassador". www.tribune242.com. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  4. ^ "MINISTRY OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY DELEGATION PAY COURTESY CALL ON PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE RAHMING". Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Bahamas. 2016-09-01. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  5. ^ "Ambassador Rahming Addresses OAS General Assembly | Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas | Bahamas Local News - Nassau / Paradise Island, Bahamas". www.bahamaslocal.com. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  6. ^ "RAHMING MEETS WITH PEACE ORGANIZATION". Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Bahamas. 2017-02-27. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  7. ^ "Global Business Worldwide". www.globalbusiness.uk.com. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
  8. ^ "Greatest Blacks Ever: Top 100 Blacks Who Changed the World for Peace. Progress. Prosperity. Pleasure. Briana Louise Cacuci - Google Search". www.google.com. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
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