The
Ministry of Health is pleased to announce that Mr. Marco Rolle, Permanent
Secretary, Ministry of Health, while representing The Bahamas at the
Commonwealth Advisory Committee on Health (CACH) Meeting in the United Kingdom
during the period 9th thru 10th April, 2015, was elected
Vice-Chair of the CACH effective from 1st July, 2015 to 30th
June 2016. The Bahamas takes up the Chair of CACH from 1st July,
2016 to 30th June 2017. This milestone represents the first time
that The Bahamas was elected to this position in The Commonwealth.
The Commonwealth Advisory Committee on
Health (CACH) is made up of senior officials from different Commonwealth member
states, regional bodies and civil society. The Committee advises the
Commonwealth Secretariat on matters of public health concern, provides guidance
to the Secretariat on its work and advises Commonwealth Health Ministers on the
strategic direction and outcomes of Secretariat’s work programme.
Mr. Marco
Rolle, an Attorney-at-Law and Economist, is a career civil servant with more
than 35 years of experience in Public Administration and Management in the Public
Service. His progress through the Public Service has taken him to the Ministry
of Finance; the Ministry of Economic Affairs; the Ministry of Finance and Planning;
the Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries; the Ministry of Consumer Welfare
and Aviation; the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry of National
Security; the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Cooperative Development; the
Ministry of Transport, Aviation and Local Government; the Ministry of Financial
Services and Investment; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; the Office of the
Attorney-General among many others.
Mr. Rolle,
represented The Bahamas at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting
(CHOGM), the United Nations General Assembly (UN), the General Assembly of the
Organization of American States (OAS), the CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting,
the EEC-ACP Hemispheric Conference, the CARICOM Council of Foreign Ministers
Meeting (COFCOR), the Annual Meetings of the World Bank and the International
Monetary Fund (WB & IMF), the Commonwealth Ministers of Finance Meetings,
the Annual Meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the Annual
Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB).
