On its final leg, this travelling exhibition—which has been shown at the Waterloo Center for the Arts in Iowa and the Museum of Fine Arts in Tallahassee, Florida—comes home to The National Art Gallery of The Bahamas.

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Grills blazed under tents while the scorching sun reflected the fiery spirit of competition during Saturday’s first annual Cattlemen’s Smokin’ Hot BBQ Competition hosted by Green Parrot at the East Bay Marina.

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Freeport, Bahamas - The competition has officially started as seven hopefuls vying for the title of Miss Grand Bahama 2013-2014 were unveiled during an elegant evening of beauty, fashion and entertainment poolside at Sabor, at the Pelican Bay Hotel.

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Freeport, Bahamas - The competition has officially started as seven hopefuls vying for the title of Miss Grand Bahama 2013-2014 were unveiled during an elegant evening of beauty, fashion and entertainment poolside at Sabor, at the Pelican Bay Hotel.

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Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - ' Uppercut' will be performing on Saturday April 20th 2013 at The Lucayan International School (LIS) Fishing Fling Luau Party taking place at The GB Sailing Club with their expanded new band. The Luau Spring Fling party is an adults only event taking place Saturday 20th April...

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From "Let Me Love You", to "Forever Now", "Sexy Love", "Beautiful Monster", "One in a Million", "So Sick", "Mad"; "Miss Independent", "Because of You", "Closer", "Never Knew I Needed"; "Champagne Life", "Single", "Turn Around" or "Do You" -- whether it's a song Ne-Yo has written for himself or written for another artist -- they are all his personal experiences.
Speaking with The Nassau Guardian at the recent 8th annual Jazz in the Gardens in Miami, Florida, Shaffer Chimere Smith, better known as Ne-Yo said that everything he writes is from a personal experience.
"Every song that you've ever heard from me or by me has been something that's either happened to me or happened to somebody close enough to me to tell the story," said Ne-Yo prior to his show-stopping performance. "I try to write from fiction and it works, but it doesn't work as well as when I write from personal experience. So everything that's happened -- good, bad or indifferent -- it's all turned out to be some pretty good songs if I would say so."
It was the personal experience in his childhood home that he said inspired him to write the hit song "Irreplaceable", sung by Beyonce.
"I grew up in a house full of women -- my mother, my sister, my grandmother, five of my aunts and me until I was about 16. So from birth to 16 it was just me and all of these women, so that means every boyfriend, every husband, every ex-boyfriend ... I was there for all of them. But 'Irreplaceable' is actually about an aunty of mine and a guy she was dating at the time and she was just so in love one week and then the following week all of his stuff was in a box to the left of the closet waiting for him to come get it," he said.
It was that house full of women who he said also literally beat into his head love and respect for women.
"I was basically Frankenstein's monster. Every bad experience by a man that they experienced, they was going to make sure that I wasn't that - like you going to listen when a woman talking to you; and you going to make sure that you open doors; and you going to make sure ... I didn't have a choice but to grow up knowing the strength and respect of women."
It's that innate respect for women that comes through not only in his music, but the way he addressed them as well, and makes him rise above whatever misfortune he has faced.
As he released R.E.D. (an acronym for realizing every dream), his fifth studio album, Ne-Yo returned to the core of his melodic R&B as well as builds on his ever-expanding dance-pop footprint. He also led or shared songwriting duties on the majority of the album.
And the man who writes from personal experience on this album offers "The Cracks in Mr. Perfect", "Lazy Love", "Let Me Love You (Until You Learn to Love Yourself)", "Miss Right", "Jealous", "Don't Make Em Like You", "Be The One", "Stress Reliever", "She is", "Carry On", "Forever Now", "Shut Me Down" and "Unconditional".
The artist, writer and producer who has done it all practically is missing just one feather from his fedora. He has yet to write for a living legend and he would love to have that honor.
"I've been saying forever that I would like to write for Stevie Wonder. I would love to write a song either with or for Stevie Wonder," said Ne-Yo who lists Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince and Sammie Davis Jr. among his four main influences.
"And the only two living are Prince and Stevie, so if I could get the opportunity to write for either one of them, my career would be somewhat complete," said Ne-Yo.
He has already opened his own production company and recording studio. Opening a label is something he is looking to do, but that he said would have to wait until he hangs up his fedora, as unlike a production company and recording studio, he said that was another ball game altogether.
"That's something that takes a lot of time, a lot of patience, and I don't think I could properly do the job trying to be an artist myself and usher in somebody else's career at the same time. I would have to step away from something in order to give that the proper attention it deserves."
And just in case you didn't know, as smooth as Ne-Yo is, and for as many hits as he's written and recorded, he does not play any instruments. Everything he does is by ear and he says he does not have the patience to learn to play an instrument.
"I tried to sit and learn how to play the guitar [but] I don't like to be bad at anything. And to learn how to do something, you have to be bad at it first," he said. Ne-Yo who has donned the cap of artist/writer and producer says he's always searching for whatever the next thing is, and that he doesn't know what it is until he stumbles upon it.
"I don't know what it is until I stumble upon it ... until I get to the studio and experiment with stuff and say okay if I take this and put it with this then that's the reason ... something we've never heard before. So I have to get in and actually do it first."
Ne-Yo who went into the game as a writer -- making other people look good, decided he was going to make himself look good -- and by the grace of God it worked out.

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Freeport, Bahamas - The competition has officially started as seven hopefuls vying for the title of Miss Grand Bahama 2013-2014 were unveiled during an elegant evening of beauty, fashion and entertainment poolside at Sabor, at the Pelican Bay Hotel.
 

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Jamaica - The Bahamas is a stitch above the rest claiming the top two spots of the first challenge on the design reality show, Mission Catwalk, season 3. The Caribbean based fashion reality show is dedicated to finding the best designers from the Caribbean and is currently being filmed in Kingston, Jamaica.

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Atlanta, Georgia - The Atlanta Caribbean Carnival Bandleaders Association, Inc held a press conference over the weekend to officially launch the 25th Atlanta Caribbean Carnival season in the city. With rapper Ludacris as a major sponsor plus reality star/designer Dwight Eubanks and Miss Universe Bahamas...

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There are only two days left you submit and contestants are now being cast nationwide for the popular BTC an on-air television show BTC STARMAKER airing on ZNS and on-line this May and June. BTC STARMAKER features Bahamian contestants between the ages of 13 and 30, vying for the chance to become the next face of BTC for their extensive advertising and PR campaigns. Now its 4th year of production would be contestants can apply via email and at www.btcstarmaker.com and attend live auditions on Grand Bahama, Exuma and New Providence.

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Calling the right of the public to access information about the business of the government of The Bahamas "an essential and critical tool in a truly democratic society," the Coalition to Protect Clifton Bay today lauded the Christie administration's announcement that it was close to passing a Freedom of Information Act. The Coalition's comments came in response to an article that appeared in a local daily Thursday quoting a senior official stating that the proposed Freedom of Information Act was being reviewed by the Law Reform and Revision department in the office of the Attorney General

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Contestants are now being cast nationwide for the popular BTC an on-air television show BTC STARMAKER airing on ZNS and on-line this May and June. BTC STARMAKER features Bahamian contestants between the ages of 13 and 30, vying for the chance to become the next face of BTC for their extensive advertising and PR campaigns. Now its 4th year of production would be contestants can apply via email and at www.btcstarmaker.com and attend live auditions on Grand Bahama, Exuma and New Providence.

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Nassau, The Bahamas -- Residents and visitors to The Bahamas all demand basic needs such as access to good quality, reliable potable water supply and environmental compliant sanitation services, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Works and Urban Development the Hon. Philip Davis said.

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EW YORK, NY -Total Caribbean Network an IPTV network, whose vision is to provide interconnectivity with Caribbean nationals worldwide, while exposing the non-nationals to our vibrant culture will launch TCNplus+ IPTV, a new media television network scheduled to debut on Sunday April 21st, 2013...

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Mission Catwalk, a Caribbean based fashion reality television series is in search of burgeoning fashion talents in the region; and the hit series which recently ranked as the number one television show in Jamaica, is about to get a Bahamian invasion.

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Nassau, Bahamas --- While on vacation in The Bahamas, Oscar nominated actor and producer Mark Walberg met The Celebrity Artist, Jamaal Rolle who presented Mr Wahlberg with a life-like portrait. A gift from Roni Duncombe of Distinguished Enterprises, Wahlberg was impressed and immediately told The Celebrity Artist that he would commission him to complete a portrait of his children. Wahlberg had compared The Celebrity Artist’s portrait of himself to another one he had received in the U.S., saying that Jamaal’s was the best, capturing such likeness.

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We all know them -- the person who claims to be the prince of pork, the bad boy of beef, the sultan of sauce or the king of ribs. Well now it's put up or shut up time as the BBQ throw down is coming to town and the title of Best BBQ Pit Master in The Bahamas will be handed out.

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The Teen Actor and Singer Joins Suicide Awareness Voices of Education in their Fight to Prevent Suicide through Education and Reduce the Stigma Associated with Mental Illness Shauna Case, the fifteen year old recording artist and actor, who is one of the stars of Cartoon Network's sketch comedy show...

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NASSAU, Bahamas --- While on vacation in The Bahamas, Oscar nominated actor and producer Mark Walberg met The Celebrity Artist, Jamaal Rolle, who presented Mr Wahlberg with a life-like portrait.  A gift from Roni Duncombe of Distinguished Enterprises, Wahlberg was impressed and immediately told...

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Saint Lucia - On Thursday April 11th, yet another corporate partner, this time, the Bay Gardens Beach Resort will collaborate with the Saint Lucia Tourist Board in honoring the many partners who contribute to the continuing success of the annual Saint Lucia Jazz & Arts Festival.

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