Tommy served on a Crime Prevention Committee of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and on We The People Bahamas, an organization that offered ideas to improve infrastructure and the quality of life for residents.

As a student at C.C. Sweeting Senior High, he was Assistant Coach of the ladies softball team and competed at the highest level in school track and field, soccer, basketball and softball. As a teenager, he was timekeeper, scorer and chief statistician of the Bahamas Amateur Basketball Association in the late 1970s.

Businessman

Tommy established Buttons Bridal & Formal Wear, the first full-service business dedicated to weddings, prom and other formal celebrations which became an institution for over 32 years, renowned for style, innovation and service in the Bahamas.

He started the Bahamas Bridal Show, the largest bridal event in the country designed to promote and showcase products and services to the wedding market. As the show’s executive producer, he has led a team of 70-plus volunteers, models and staff to present the show that attracts annually an average of 50 local and international businesses. He’s also the publisher of The Wedding Guide, a 40-page handbook-size magazine.

Special Love for Baseball & Softball

He served as Bahamas Baseball Association junior league director, scorers and commissioner, and coordinated the first Bahamian junior baseball team in 1982 to travel for competition abroad. The team won 2 of 3 exhibitor games against Miami Khoury League in Tamiami, Florida. For his efforts, the Bahamas Ministry of Youth honoured him for dedicated services to youth. He hosted and organized Buttons Formal Wear annual slow-pitch softball tournament held as a tribute to the late Chris Ferguson.

He represented the Bahamas on the field at the Pan American Game baseball qualifying tournament in Mexico City. He made major contributions to Buttons baseball team winning four Bahamas baseball championships and helped the Bahamas win its first international senior baseball championship in North Carolina, USA.

He led a select group of young players to spearhead the formation of Nassau Baseball League to reignite quality senior baseball in 1994. He coached youth baseball in Pembroke Pines, Florida, and Junior Baseball League of Nassau.

Tommy’s sports administrative skills propelled him to the following positions:
• Public relations officer, Nassau Baseball League
• Commissioner, New Providence Softball Association
• Vice president and president, New Providence Old Timers Softball

He presented Major League Baseball player, the late Ed Armbrister, recipient of two World Series championship rings with the Cincinnati Reds, at Ed’s Bahamian Hall of Fame induction. He sponsored and chaired a group to establish Ed Armbrister Baseball League at Windsor Park, Nassau.

The Journalist

Tommy was honoured by his high school alma mater, C.C. Sweeting Senior, for excellence in journalism as a writer for The Nassau Guardian; publisher, editor and writer of Sports National tabloid newspaper, The Miami News, Miami-Dade Community College student newspaper, The Falcon; student yearbook at Florida International University, where he served as sports editor of its student newspaper. He’s author of fictional novel, Deportation, and has developed a table-top Squeeze Play Baseball game.