Animals/Pets
Former govt approved energy deal
May 16, 2017
Among its final acts as the Government of The Bahamas, Prime Minister Perry Christie revealed last night that his Cabinet approved a natural gas energy deal with a company days before the general election. Christie said if followed through the agreement would bring about more affordable and reliable power in The Bahamas...
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Pet Food Institute Expands Regional Reach to Teach Back-to-Back Grand Bahama, Trinidad Show
April 14, 2017
A dog may be man’s best friend, but in the Caribbean and Bahamas, a campaign is turning out to be dog’s best friend. The campaign is an education outreach by the Washington-based Pet Food Institute (PFI)...
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Crawfish Season CLOSED April 1st-July 31st, 2017
March 30, 2017
The Department of Marine Resources wishes to advise the general public that the closed season for the capturing of crawfish is the period April 1, 2017 to July 31, 2017 inclusive...
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Operators reject fears over surrey horse health
March 28, 2017
CARRIAGE operators in New Providence have dismissed concerns raised over the treatment of surrey horses around the country, claiming that improvements in sector regulations have ensured that best practices are adhered to...
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Brazil officials urge caution over alert on meat imports
March 24, 2017
BRAZILIAN officials in The Bahamas yesterday urged caution as international concern mounts over the quality of meat imports from that country and sought to downplay fears that prompted several bans...
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Gray: Tests on BAIC feed after livestock deaths
March 08, 2017
MINISTER of Agriculture V Alfred Gray yesterday said his ministry will await the results of tests ordered on a batch of feed from the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation's (BAIC) Feed Mill as he pushed back against "speculation" that recent livestock deaths were linked to contaminated feed...
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Farmers blame 'contaminated' corn from BAIC feed mill for pig deaths
March 02, 2017
FARMERS across the country were said to be at breaking point as they battle livestock challenges, including deaths of pigs, allegedly due to contaminated and poor quality feed from the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation's Gladstone Road Feed Mill...
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Swimming pigs 'died from ingesting sand material'
March 01, 2017
EXUMA'S swimming pigs died from ingesting "sand material," according to Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries V Alfred Gray...
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Swimming pigs autopsy results still not made public
February 28, 2017
BAHAMAS Humane Society President Kim Aranha yesterday questioned why the results of autopsies performed on the seven swimming pigs that died in the Exumas have not yet been released to the public...
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BAARK's Strutt Your Mutt..."It's all about the dogs..."
December 16, 2016
Having fun and raising money for a wonderful cause was the name of the game on Sunday December 11th Strut your Mutt Walk-A-Thon at Goodman’s Bay, for both two and fourlegged participants. Just under 100 people and their dogs took part in the event...
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'Pet Food Institute-Caribbean sponsors BAARK! Strut Your Mutt Walkathon
December 14, 2016
Scores of people, many accompanied by four-legged friends bedecked in BAARK! doggie-bandanas, took to West Bay Street for BAARK!’s Strut Your Mutt Walkathon December 11, sponsored by Pet Food Institute-Caribbean...
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Unift surrey horses 'may not go back on the road again'
November 04, 2016
THE health and condition of surrey horses in New Providence are being closely monitored on a consistent basis, with officials from the Cabs Board yesterday promising that if any of the animals are found to be unfit for work, that horse "may not go back on the road again."
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Donate to the Grand Bahama Humane Society
November 03, 2016
Four weeks post Hurricane Matthew, and the Humane Society of Grand Bahama is still standing! It's been a rough few weeks, but progress is being made slowly but surely.
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Please Don't Foget Your Animals
October 04, 2016
Please don't forget your animals while you are battening down for this storm!
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The work of the Bahamas Humane Society
October 03, 2016
I write in response to Marvin Lightbourn's letter "The stray dog problem in The Bahamas", published in the October 1, 2016 edition of The Nassau Guardian.
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Horses have been taught to communicate with humans
September 28, 2016
Scientists in Norway say they've trained horses to communicate with humans, by pointing their muzzle at simple symbols on a board.
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Duncombe laments fisheries regulation change
September 14, 2016
ReEarth President Sam Duncombe said she finds it "very disturbing" that just this week the barriers to taking fish caught recreationally in The Bahamas to Florida by water were lowered.
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This dolphin has invented a way to overcome a disability
September 13, 2016
Dolphins usually breathe using their blowhole. But it now seems this is not a hard-and-fast rule.
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Atlantis releases newest batch of turtle hatchlings
September 09, 2016
Another successful release exercise of newly hatched green sea turtles was recently carried out by Atlantis’ Water Features Department.
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Zika fogging insecticides responsible for bee deaths
September 05, 2016
AN ENVIRONMENTAL Health Services executive has acknowledged that insecticides being used in fogging efforts to prevent the spread of the Zika virus are responsible for the increase in deaths of indigenous bees.
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