Eric Rose

Eric Rose was born in Nassau, The Bahamas, on August 2,
1974 to Doris McFall and the late Cecil Rose. He is a
graduate of Clark Atlanta University, where he
obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and the
Excellence in Journalism award from the Media Arts
Department. He also served as Editor-in-Chief of the
CAU Panther newspaper and was a senior Resident
Assistant for two consecutive years.
Upon his return to The Bahamas, Mr. Rose was a staff
reporter at The Tribune newspaper, as well as a
photographer for the media house, and obtained the
post of Director of Communications at The Bahamas
Hotel Association. In 2000, he joined BIS as an
Information Officer. He is currently a Senior Information Officer, with responsibility for Culture.
Mr. Rose is also considered to be one of the finest
up-and-coming poets in The Bahamas, with past membership in
the elite Millennium Poets. He performed with
Koumbah Creativity for more than four years and feels
that it is one of the best outlets and training
grounds for Bahamian literary artistry. From his
partnership with the event, he appears on television
specials and radio programmes with many of the
nations premier poets.
Mr. Rose is also amateur actor, having performed at
the Dundas Centre for the Performing Arts and the
Martin Luther King Centre in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Rose
had the privilege of performing poetry at Government
House before both Bahamian Governor-General His
Excellency Sir Orville Turnquest and his successor
Governor-General Her Excellency Dame Ivy Dumont.
As an amateur digital music producer, Mr. Rose
produced tracks for radio commercials and local
television shows, with a number of the tracks breaking
into Sonys AP Top 50 Chart.
He also was recognized with The Bahamas National
Youth Achievement Award in 1992 and the Caribfest
Award for Excellence in Literature in 1994.
Mr. Rose is married to the former Patrice Johnson and has one son, Antonio Carlos, and four stepchildren.