Pictured: (left to right seated) Linda Turnquest, IT, GB Shipyard; Mick Holding, CFO, GB Shipyard; Carl Rotkirch, president and CEO, GB Shipyard; Fred Mitchell; Michael Darville; Picewell Forbes: Reuben Boyd, VP GB Shipyard; and Graham Couser, VP Sales, GB Shipyard. The 26 trainees are pictured standing. Click here to see enlarged photo. (BIS Photo/Vandyke Hepburn)

Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Fred Mitchell toured the Grand Bahama Shipyard facility June 21, holding meetings with top executives and meeting the 26 young Bahamians taking part in the company’s apprenticeship programme.

Also participating in the meetings were the Minister for Grand Bahama Michael Darville and The Bahamas’ High Commissioner to CARICOM Picewell Forbes.