Nassau, Bahamas - Thirty
rural women micro-entrepreneurs from 12 countries across the Caribbean region
have benefited from an important training exercise that will allow them to
exploit business opportunities in an effort to increase production and
productivity. The five-day workshop, held in Saint Lucia from June 21-25, 2010,
was facilitated by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture
(

IICA), under a

UNIFEM-funded project entitled "Capacity Building for the Caribbean
Network of Rural Women Producers (

CANROP)".
Participants (seen above with the

IICA's
ECS Representative, Ms. Una May Gordon) were members of the executive
committees of national chapters of the

CANROP's
from Antigua, The Bahamas (The Bahamas National Craft Association [

BNCA] is a member through the Bahamas
Agricultural & Industrial Corporation [

BAIC]),
Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica...

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Thank you for granting me the opportunity to express my heartfelt appreciation to the officers of the Royal Bahamas Police Force who gave unselfishly of their time and talent to facilitate the Summer Band Camp, which was held July 5th-30th, 2010.

During the camp, we were taught ear training and music theory and practice.

We also engaged in numerous physical exercises to ensure that we were fit to perform with our instruments.

Throughout the month, we had opportunities to display our musicianship at the Independence tattoo, The Adventist basketball game, The Battle of The Bands, which we won and on Black Village Day. Our theme, "One Band, One Sound" came to l ...

By ALISON LOWE
Tribune Staff Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

WHILE remaining under a tropical storm watch yesterday, residents in the south and south eastern Bahamas reported little effects from Hurricane Earl the early part of yesterday and into the afternoon, but were advised by the National Emergency Management Agency to undertake preparations.

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the country's primary disaster response agency, activated its National Emergency Operations Centre yesterday morning, pulling together core emergency support functions personnel at NEMA's headquarters in the Churchill Building, from where they monitored the hurricane's path and began to r ...

THE United States is concerned that its standing in education is dropping in world rankings -- particularly in mathematics and science --and that its rate of school dropouts has now reached the point of being "economically unsustainable." Not only do these young people add to America's already high unemployment figures, but, because of their lack of education and job skills, they are unemployable.

It has been emphasised that citizens can only have a strong country if they have a strong education system.

This is the message that Education Minister Desmond Bannister has been trying to get across to Bahamian students as he encourages them to move up from their present grade D level. M ...