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Minister of Environment
Member of Parliament (FNM)
Marathon
New Providence
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3rd Floor Dockendale House
West Bay Street
P. O. Box N-3040
Nassau, N.P., The Bahamas
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The Hon. Dr. Earl Deveaux was elected the Free National Movement’s (FNM) Member of Parliament for the Marathon Constituency in the May 2, 2007, general election and sworn in as Minister of Works and Transport by His Excellency the Hon. Arthur D. Hanna Governor-General on May 7.
Dr. Deveaux served as Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries under the FNM administration led by the Rt. Hon. Hubert A. Ingraham following the March 1997 general election.
This “Big Yard” son of the soil was born in Standard Creek, Andros, on March 31, 1949, to Clarence ‘Cap’ Deveaux and Alice Oteria Suanders-Deveaux and was the ninth of 11 children. His father, a fisherman, died in 1970, and his mother a homemaker, died in 1995.
Dr. Deveaux attended primary school in Andros and graduated from Queen’s College, Nassau, in 1968. Excelling in athletics, leadership and academics, he won a scholarship to attend the University of Miami, where he completed an undergraduate degree in economics in 1971. he was also listed in the ‘Who’s Who” of American universities and colleges for academic and leadership achievement.
In 1977 he completed a master’s degree in agricultural economics at Penn State University, and in 1982 was awarded an honorary doctorate by Lycoming College in Pennsylvania in recognition of his contribution to Bahamian agricultural development. He is also a former member of the American Society of Agricultural consultants.
Dr. Deveaux has worked as a government planning officers, as research and credit officers for World Bank Corporation, as manager of The Bahamas Agricultural Research Training Development Project on Andros (1974-1978), as Assistant Director of Agriculture (1979-1983), as a commercial farmer (1983-1987), as a consultant to The Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation and the Ministry of Agriculture (1987-1993) and as Director of Agriculture (1993-1996).
He left government service in 1996 to become owner operator of Morgan’s Farm, an 800-acre fruit and vegetable farm started in 1994 as a joint venture with Brookwood Farms of Florida and The Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation.
He is married to the former Barbara Clancy and is the father of two daughters Tara and Shana. |
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