Next weekend, 11th and 12th May, the Freeport Rugby Club will be holding their 3rd Annual Junior Rugby International Tournament. Teams from the ages of 8 to 16 are coming from The Cayman Islands and Key Biscayne, Florida to play with the teams in Freeport. Every year the Cayman teams come and this year they will bring their largest group ever of one hundred and twenty players, coaches and supporters!

They have actually chartered their own jet to get here. Key Biscayne are also bringing one hundred and twenty people down to visit the Bahamas with seventy-five kids ready to play hard for their club, The KB Rugby Rats. As well as watching the kids play rugby you can also cheer on the Dads who will play in a Golden Oldies match, for men over 35 years of age.

This weekend event will be great because the kids who train in Freeport every week will get to enjoy the game all weekend and hang out with the kids from other countries. Making new friends is part of sport and on top of that they will get to enjoy a BBQ and pool party too.

Freeport, Grand Bahama - Minister for Grand Bahama, the Honourable Dr. Michael Darville in continuing with the Government's commitment to doubling the investment in education and training, met Thursday with the principals and vice-principals of both private and public schools on Grand Bahama. On the Minister's agenda this time was garnering support for a Grand Bahama Industrial Career Seminar slated for September of 2013.

He explained to the very large group of educators assembled in the conference room of the Ministry for Grand Bahama, situated in the Harold DeGregory Complex that "this particular seminar, we intend to make it a very huge event, because over the last year we have been working very diligently to begin to ignite and lay the foundation for the growth and development of our industrial sector."

Dr. Darville told the group that over the past year he has been traveling extensively throughout South America and around the world promoting Grand Bahama as the industrial capitol of The Bahamas. He pointed out that Grand Bahama Island is blest with the deepest water harbour in the region with a depth of seventy feet, allowing it to handle some of the largest vessels in the world from here to the Panama Canal.

Drug Enforcement Unit officers make drug arrest -  Three (3) males, ages 23, 20 and 17 years are in police custody after being found in possession of a handgun and a quantity of ammunition on Monday 29th April, 2013. Eleuthera Traffic victim succumbs in hospital -  A man detained in hospital after a serious accident on the island of Eleuthera has died.

The accident reportedly occurred around 3:30 am on Saturday 16th March, 2013. Police seek suspects in recent murder -  Police are requesting the public's help in locating two (2) males responsible for a shooting incident that has left a man in critical condition in hospital and a 21 year old female dead.

By SANCHESKA BROWN