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The Commonwealth of the Bahamas announces the appointment of its first
Honorary Consul to the United States of America in the State of Georgia,
Mr. Michael Munroe Young
The Minister of Foreign Affairs and the
Public Service, the Honourable Frederick A. Mitchell, M.P. will
commission and present letters of appointment to Mr. Michael Munroe
Young as The Commonwealth of the Bahamas’ first Honorary Consul in the
United States of America
for the State of Georgia, on Wednesday 6th September, 2006.
This historic presentation is scheduled to take place at the World
Trade
Center,
Suntrust
Plaza,
Downtown, Atlanta, Georgia.
Michael M. Young is
President of MPY & Associates Consulting Company in
Fayetteville, Georgia.
His company works with non- profit organizations and the business
community in assisting funding opportunities that support the
improvement of the quality of life for citizens in the
Atlanta
community. Mr. Young was a former Vice-President and Assistant
Treasurer for the Delta Foundation and Vice President of Community
Affairs at its World Headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Young
provided the company with thirty years of excellence in management and
community/media relations with worldwide civic groups, corporations, and
worldwide media.
Mr. Young’s
personal community involvement included serving as a member of the Board
of Directors with Leadership Atlanta, Atlanta Urban League, Board of
Governors of the 191 Club and
Atlanta
Technical
College, the
Advisory Board of the Congressional Black Caucus, Atlanta Red Cross, and
the Board of Visitors for the Center for Disease Control. He is a
member of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, the 100 Black Men of Atlanta
and an alumni of Leadership Atlanta. The Honorary Consul received his
Bachelors Degree in Business Administration from Cambridge International
University, Cape Town, South Africa. He continued his studies at the
Emory University Roberto Goizueta School of Business Executive
Symposium, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship Certified
Community Relations Consultant and is an Honorary Member of the Golden
Key National Honor Society of Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Georgia.
Born to Bahamian parents in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. Mr.
Young spent his formative years in Pottstown, Pennsylvania. He and his
wife Patricia Jones-Young reside in
Fairburn,
Georgia.
The couple have two children, a son Tori, and daughter Leah.
His responsibilities as Honorary Consul will
include; forging Trade and Investment opportunities between the State of
Georgia and
The Bahamas; promoting and protecting the interest of Bahamian
nationals, and fostering friendly relations between the Government of
the Bahamas and the State of Georgia.
The Honorary Consul’s office at Atlanta comes under the
direction of the Bahamas Consulate General,
Miami,
Florida’s
jurisdiction, where Mrs. Alma A. Adams is the Consul General. The
Consulate General Miami’s jurisdiction also includes:
Alabama,
Louisiana,
Mississippi, North and South Carolina
and Florida.
For
further information on the Office of the Honorary Consul, please send
inquiries to Mr. Michael M. Young, Honorary Consul, Commonwealth of the
Bahamas, 195 Moss Creek Walk, Fairburn,
Georgia 30213.
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