Katherine Forbes-Smith is a Bahamian lawyer and politician and former President of the Senate of the Bahamas.

She is a member of Free National Movement.[1] She was first time appointed as member of the Senate of the Bahamas in 2001 and 2007.[2] In 2007 she was appointed as parliamentary secretary in the office of prime minister Hubert Ingraham.[3] Then she was appointed as the first consul general of the Bahamas to Atlanta, USA, until 2017.[2]

Forbes-Smith was appointed as the President of the Senate of the Bahamas in May 2017.[4] She resigned in November 2019 to lead disaster management agency (Disaster Reconstruction Authority) in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.[5] Her contract as the leader of the agency was cancelled in 2021 following PLP victory in the 2021 elections.[6]

References

  1. ^ "K. Forbes Smith to be selected as FNM Senate President | Bahamaspress.com". 30 March 2019. Archived from the original on 2019-03-30.
  2. ^ a b "thebahamasweekly.com - PM Minnis Remarks at Swearing-in of Senators & Parliamentary Secretaries". www.thebahamasweekly.com.
  3. ^ "thebahamasweekly.com - Senator Forbes-Smith heads PM's office in Grand Bahama". www.thebahamasweekly.com.
  4. ^ "thebahamasweekly.com - Sixteen-Member Senate Convenes for First Official Sitting". www.thebahamasweekly.com.
  5. ^ Ward, Jasper (2 December 2019). "Senate president resigns". The Nassau Guardian.
  6. ^ Gallery, The (13 January 2024). "Former DRA Chief quizzed by cops over 2 days". The Gallery.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_Forbes-Smith
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