NASSAU, Bahamas, July 24, 2019 – Mrs. Sarah Dickson has been appointed British High Commissioner to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas as the British Government prepares to reestablish a High Commission in Nassau.
This was officially announced by the British and Commonwealth Office in a press release on May 31, 2019, in which it was noted that Mrs. Dickson “will take up her appointment during August 2019.”
Further confirmation came locally from the Hon. Renward Wells, Minister of Transport and Local Government, during a discussion with the media outside Cabinet on Tuesday, July 23, as noted in an article published in the Nassau Guardian.
Mr. Wells, who was the acting Minister of Foreign Affairs, represented The Bahamas at the Commonwealth Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in London on July 10. He was quoted in The Guardian article as saying, “One of the wonderful things that I was privy to and was happy to see take place was the exuberance on the part of the British for coming back to The Bahamas as an official high commission.”
Dickson, a Cambridge graduate who has an MBA, is a former British Ambassador to Guatemala and Honduras from June 2012 – August 2015, but most recently she was Global Affairs Director, based in London, for Scotch Whisky Association from August 2015 – June 2019.
Mrs. Dickson’s previous experiences as a British diplomat include postings at the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, from January 2005 to August 2010 and the British Embassy in Buenos Aires from June 1997 to July 2000.
The last resident British High Commissioner to The Bahamas was Peter Young, who served from 1996 to 1999 when the high commission closed, and the British High Commission in Kingston assumed responsibility for the maintenance of diplomatic relations between the UK and The Bahamas.
