Dionisio James D'Aguilar (born October 15, 1964) is a Bahamian Free National Movement (FNM) politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Freetown and Minister of Tourism and Aviation from 2017 to 2021.
[1][2] He remained in New York state for five years while working as a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) before returning to the Bahamas, where he has served as the president and CEO of Superwash Limited, a chain of self-service laundromats, since 1993.
[10] Leading up to the election, D'Aguilar said that the country was "becoming a socialist state" in response to a proposed reform of the Employment and Industrial Relations Acts which increased the maximum length of redundancy pay, calling the idea "absolutely crazy.
[19] The COVID-19 pandemic dealt devastating blows to the tourism industry, and it was no exception in the Bahamas,[20] where airports and seaports were closed to visitors starting on March 24, 2020.
[22] In January 2021, in response to U.S. President Joe Biden's executive order requiring returning tourists to self-quarantine, D'Aguilar said the move was "simply devastating" because it represented a "significant deterrent to travel.