JoBeth Coleby-Davis

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JoBeth Coleby-Davis
Minister of Transport and Housing
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23 September 2021
Website www.jobethforelizabeth.com

JoBeth Lillian Coleby-Davis (born 17 July 1984) is a Bahamian Progressive Liberal Party politician and attorney who has been the Bahamian Minister of Housing and Transport since 23 September 2021 and the Member of Parliament for Elizabeth since 6 October 2021. Coleby-Davis defeated the FNM incumbent Duane Sands in the 2021 general election. She previously served in the Senate from 2017 to 2021.

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Early life and education

Coleby-Davis was born in Freeport, Grand Bahama to Irma (née Bootle) and Wayde Coleby. Her family relocated to the United States and then again to the Turks and Caicos where she finished her secondary education at Clement Howell High School. She pursued an Associate Degree in Law and Criminal Justice at the College of the Bahamas. She then took her studies to the United Kingdom, graduating with a dual Bachelor of Laws with Business Management from Keele University in 2009. She took a bar vocational course at Nottingham Trent University the following year before going on to graduate with a Master of Laws in Energy Law and Policy from the University of Dundee. [1]

Career

Coleby-Davis was called to the Bar of England and Wales and the Bar of the Bahamas. She provided legal counsel to ScotiaBank and the Bahamas Petroleum Company, sat on the board Real Property Tax Appeal Tribunal, and participated in the amnesty programme.

Coleby-Davis was appointed and sworn in as a Senator in 2017, when the PLP was in opposition. [2] In October 2020, she announced she would seek the PLP nomination for the Elizabeth constituency in the next election. [3] She unseated FNM incumbent Duane Sands in the 2021 general election. [4]

After winning the election, she was appointed Minister of Transport and Housing under the new prime minister, Philip Davis. [5] Coleby-Davis was officially sworn into parliament on 6 October 2021.

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  1. ↑ Rose, Olivia (5 June 2017). "Former Clement Howell student becomes senator in the Bahamas". Turks and Caicos. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  2. ↑ "Gov't Out of Touch with Millennials". The Bahama Journal. 20 May 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  3. ↑ 16 October 2020, Sloan (16 October 2020). "PLP Senator Jobeth Coleby-Davis vying for Elizabeth nomination". Eyewitness News. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
  4. ↑ "Our Campaigns - Bahamas MP - Elizabeth Race - Sep 16, 2021". www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
  5. ↑ "FORMING YOUR GOVERNMENT: 11 more Cabinet ministers appointed in Davis administration". Eye Witness News. 22 September 2021. Retrieved 16 October 2021.
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