The company that runs the former US baselands has appointed a new chairman of its board.

Calvin White was appointed recently to be chairman of the Bermuda Land Development Company at the annual general meeting last week to replace Michelle Khaldun who is the new Education Permanent Secretary of Education.

Of his new appointment, Mr. White, a professional administrator and chartered secretary, said he wanted to help create new business, recreational, and residential opportunities on BLDC properties, particularly at Southside in St.

David's.

Three new directors have been named to the board, Sir John Plowman, David Cooke, and Roseanne Pitcher, a resident of St. David's and a teacher at the St. David's Primary.

The other board members are deputy chairpersons Thelma Trott and Geoffrey Elliott, Edward Ball Jr., Sen. Walwyn Hughes, Rhona Emmerson, Karen Wainwright, Travis Gilbert and Cecil Durham.

Mr. White has been a director of BLDC since 1998 and has served on the executive committee and was chairman of the finance committee.

He is also chairman of the Berkeley Institute board of governors, and a commissioner of the Commission for Unity and Racial Equality. He is also an elder of the Seventh Day Adventist Church.

"BLDC properties are being used to strengthen tourism, to provide new recreational and residential opportunities and to meet the needs of local businesses,'' he said.

"Our work in these important areas will continue. I am also interested in seeing that Southside is used in a manner that creates new opportunities for Bermudian entrepreneurs, particularly in the fields of e-commerce and international business.

"Our board will continue to focus on developing that important aspect of the Southside opportunity. Part of the focus will be the creation of an environment that attracts e-commerce. That is Southside's real potential.'' Calvin White