FELLOWSHIP – Members of the employee councils for the Freeport Container Port (FCP), Freeport Harbour Company (FHC) and Grand Bahama Airport Company (GBAC) supported their first ever Fish Fry on Friday at the FCP Cafeteria.
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Freeport, Grand Bahama – In a move to foster a greater
bond between its members, the employee councils for Freeport Container
Port (FCP), Freeport Harbour Company (FHC) and Grand Bahama Airport
Company (GBAC) hosted a Fish Fry at FCP Cafeteria on Friday.
The
objective of the employee councils is to function as an advisory group
to the administration of FCP, FHC and GBAC and to the staff it
represents by providing an operational framework for discussions and
communication of issues, policies and activities relating to the staff.
Those issues include health and safety matters, performance and
productivity concerns, social events, welfare of staff, development of
training programs and working conditions.
The Fish Fry fundraiser
was the first of its kind under the Employee Councils for all 3
Business Units and the brainchild of Douglas Miller, Chairman of the
Employee Council for Freeport Harbour, FHC.
“We have three
companies and we want to bring everyone together to foster relationship
so that when we see each other off the job we would know that we are all
one family. So at the end of the day all of us are employees from HPH
Bahamas,” Miller explained.
WORKING TOGETHER – Executives of the Employee Council, Freeport Container Port (FCP), Freeport Harbour Company (FHC) and Grand Bahama Airport Company (GBAC) came together and worked tirelessly behind the scenes to pull off their tri-company joint Pre-Easter Fish Fry on Friday.
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The pre-Easter event was held between
9:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on Friday and allowed employees to fellowship
with one another just before the Easter holiday.
“We prepared 500
dinners and we picked this time, a week before Good Friday, because
usually a lot of the employees travel during the Easter; so we thought
this was a good way to start the Easter season off right,” said Miller.
Carolyn
Laing, Chairman of the Employee Council for Grand Bahama Airport
Company said while each of the councils have hosted their own social
gatherings in the past, it is the first time the three Employee Councils
have come together for one cause” she said.
Romardo Cash,
chairman of the Employee Council at Freeport Container Port noted that
the Fish Fry is intended to be an annual event as the ultimate goal is
to reach out to and show the
employees that the councils are there for them and will do what is needed to ensure the bonding process.
The
money derived from the Fish Fry is earmarked for the employee council
fund for upcoming employee council projects and initiatives, not only
throughout the business, but also our local community.
“We
continue to support the efforts of our employee councils. Our employees
make an invaluable contribution and are a part of one team, the
Hutchison Port Holding‘s Bahamas Business Unit, said Godfrey Smith, CEO
of FCP, FHC and GBAC.