NASSAU, Bahamas -- Executives from Bahamas Striping met with Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture the Hon Charles Maynard at his office, Friday, May 14.  The company is equipped to “mark” or paint stripes along roads, in parking lots, on playing fields and anywhere else they may be needed throughout the country.  Pictured from left: Atario Mitchell, president Bahamas Striping; Minister Maynard and Bob Bower, marketing director, Bahamas Striping.

NASSAU, Bahamas -- Students and teachers from Bimini All Age School paid a courtesy call to Governor General His Excellency Sir Arthur Foulkes at Government House, Wednesday, May 19, 2010

High temp today: 90°F
Low temp tonight: 75°F

Forecast: Variable cloudiness with hot and humid conditions and a few scattered showers and a possible isolated thunderstorm, turning fair and warm tonight. a weak surface trough over the southeast Bahamas in combination with a moist unstable air mass just west of the Bahamas will influence the weather over The Bahamas.

Winds: Light and variable at 10 knots or less in the northwest Bahamas and easterly at 10-15 knots in the central and southeast Bahamas
 

Seas: 3 feet or less in the northwest Bahamas and 2-3 feet in the central and southeast Bahamas.
 

Boaters: Small craft should be alert for gusty winds and higher seas

Sunset: 7.40pm
Sunrise: 6:23am Wednesday

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Moonrise: 11.43am
Moonset: 1.03am

Low tide: 6.51am
High tide: 12.52pm
Low tide: 6.5 pm Thursday Click here to check a past or future Nassau Tidal times.

Thursday

Weather: Variable cloudiness with hot and humid conditions and a few scattered showers and a possible isolated thunderstorm, turning fair and warm at night.

Wind:light and variable at 10 knots or less in the northwest Bahamas and east to southeast at 15-20 knots in the central and southeast Bahamas. Seas: 3 feet or less in the northwest Bahamas and 4-6 feet in the central and southeast Bahamas

Friday

Weather: Partly sunny, hot and humid conditions and a few scattered showers and a possible isolated thunderstorm, turning fair and warm at night

Winds: North to northeast at 15-20 knots in the northwest Bahamas and east to southeast at 15-20 knots in the central and southeast Bahamas

Seas: 4-6 feet over the ocean.

Source: Bahamas Department of Meteorology

Nassau, Bahamas -- Approximately 5,000 buildings in New Providence have been numbered in the Government’s house/building numbering exercise.

The project is a part of the six months National Jobs Program designed to create jobs throughout The Bahamas.
 According to the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, the “historic” exercise of correctly numbering the houses, when completed, would make it easier to locate businesses and houses throughout the island of New Providence.
Delmar Bowe, Project Supervisor with responsibility for house numbering and street naming, is pleased with the progress of the project to date.

“We started on April 12 and we are doing quite well with our installation. By the time the program ends we will be quite far ahead with installation of all numbers,” he said.

Mr Bowe explained that during the first month of training, the teams collected survey data from the areas selected by the Government in phase one of the pilot project.

“We have a system that we use for house numbering. We number from north to south or from east to west.  The houses on the left side of the street have odd numbers and the houses on the right side have even numbers. We number every lot whether there is a building on the lot or not,” he said.

Phase one of the numbering exercise includes the southeastern portion of New Providence that is bounded by Robinson Road/Prince Charles Drive in the north, East Street in the west, Fox Hill Road in the east and the sea in the south.

The teams are presently completing the buildings in St Michael’s Road and will continue in Nassau Village.

“Residents and business owners are to make their properties available to us,” said Mr Bowe. “ If we cannot access the property we would put the number in an envelope and the resident/owner has to install the number.

“We try to install an average of 60 to 100 numbers per day. We will do our best to get all the buildings in phase one done as we are winding down the sixth month program,” he added.

The program is scheduled to end in June.