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Help Haiti with Willest and The Illest

Help Haiti with Willest and The Illest

Fri, Jan 29th 2010, 12:00 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas - Anyone who wants to party and help Haiti this weekend can head to the Hardrock Cafe at 9pm tonight.

Entrance is $15 with two cans of food and $20 without. Money from the show is going towards relief efforts in Haiti.

Willest and The Illest premiered their new single 'Forbidden Love' to a packed crowd at the Bambu nightclub last Thursday.The band performed all original music including fan favourites 'Hey' and 'Natty Jam'.

Check out the photos from the 'Forbidden Love' premier:

BMX and Mountain Bike Racing this Sunday
BMX and Mountain Bike Racing this Sunday

Fri, Jan 29th 2010, 12:00 AM

Education Minister Congratulates BTVI
Education Minister Congratulates BTVI

Fri, Jan 29th 2010, 12:00 AM

New Wedding Bosses
New Wedding Bosses

Fri, Jan 29th 2010, 12:00 AM

Justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice pays courtesy call on Chief 	Justice of The Bahamas

Justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice pays courtesy call on Chief Justice of The Bahamas

Thu, Jan 28th 2010, 12:00 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas -- Justice Adrian Saunders, Justice of the Caribbean Court of Justice paid a courtesy call on Sir Michael Barnett, Chief Justice of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, Thursday, January 28. He is presenting the second annual Eugene Dupuch Distinguished Lecture. Pictured from left is Tonya Bastian Galanis, Principal of the Eugene Dupuch Law School; Justice Adrian Saunders and Sir Michael Barnett.

Register for the Valentine's Marathon

Register for the Valentine's Marathon

Wed, Jan 27th 2010, 12:00 AM

NASSAU, Bahamas - A Valentine's day marathon hopes this year will be the first of many.

There are 17 days left to register for the race at the Marathon Bahamas website. Registration is open to national and international participants.

Charitable organizations can enter a relay team with up to six people, one for each leg of the race.  

Schools are invited to do the same and two teams from each school can register for free courtesy of sponsorship from Marsh International. The winning school will be awarded “The Minister of Education Cup”.

The race committee has commissioned a bus to take runners from the Cable Beach area to the race starting point at  the Atlantis Resort  and then form the finish at Arawak Cay to Cable Beach and Atlantis after the race is over.

Businesses and entrepreneurs are welcome to sell their goods and services at a two-day expo before the race.

Check the links for more info:

About Marathon Bahamas

Marathon Bahamas Health & Fitness Expo on Feb 12 and 13th

Register for the Race

Medical Info


Free Swine Flu Vaccine
Free Swine Flu Vaccine

Wed, Jan 27th 2010, 12:00 AM

Does the Caribbean Need the Privy Council?
Does the Caribbean Need the Privy Council?

Tue, Jan 26th 2010, 12:00 AM

Text Yes to send Haiti Money
Text Yes to send Haiti Money

Mon, Jan 25th 2010, 12:00 AM

Haiti Man Survives on Coca-Cola for 11 Days

Haiti Man Survives on Coca-Cola for 11 Days

Mon, Jan 25th 2010, 12:00 AM

Haitians are questioning the government's decision to end the search for survivors, especially after a man was found alive soon after the search officially ended, according to the BBC.

Hours after Haiti's government formally ended the search for survivors, resucers pulled Wismond Exantus from the remains of the Napoli Inn Hotel in Haiti.

"I survived by drinking Coca-Cola and I ate some little tiny things," Exantus told the news agency AFP. He worked in the hotel's grocery store.

Dehydrated but smiling, Exantus should be out of the hospital in a a few days according to a French medic that saw him

Speaking before his rescue rescue, UN spokeswoman Elizabeth Byrs in Geneva said the decision to stop looking for survivors was "heartbreaking" but that it had been taken on the advice of experts.

Byrs said most search-and-rescue teams will soon leave Haiti, although some with heavy lifting equipment might stay behind.

Here is a list of some of some of Haiti's Remarkable Survivors:

Wismond Exantus, 24 - pulled out alive after 11 days
Emmannuel Buso, 21 - rescued after 10 days
Marie Carida, 84 - saved after 10 days
Mendji Bahina Sanon, 11 - trapped for eight days
Lozama Hotteline, 25 - pulled out after seven days
Elisabeth Joassaint, 15 days - buried for seven days, half her life
Ena Zizi, 69 - rescued after seven days

Not counting the bodies buried in the rubble, the Haitian government has estimated the death toll at 150,000. "Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble - 200,000, 300,000?" Haiti's communications minister, Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue, told the NY Daily News.