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Market Street residents upset with roadwork
Market Street residents upset with roadwork
Residents and business owners were irate yesterday as water being pumped from the Market Street roadwork site, and the general work, were causing significant flooding in the area.
Some homeowners claimed they could not get out of their homes for hours. Business owners said the conditions have resulted in a severe slow down in commercial activity in the area.
Market Street is one of the areas...
NTA’s 18 Assessors and Four Staff Successfully Complete Skill Courses
The National Training Agency (NTA) recognized several trainees, training providers and assessors for successfully completing certificate courses. The event was held March 30, 2021 at NTA on Gladstone Road and Munnings Drive. The NTA, offers certificate programmes to young Bahamians throughout the country.
During the ceremony, 18 staff members, training providers and assessors who successfully ...
Revitalizing Park Empowers Men
Revitalizing Park Empowers Men
As Jahman Delancy plasters the gazebo and concession stand at the historic Southern Recreation Grounds, the government’s redevelopment project is also helping to restore the 26-year-old’s dignity along with that of other young men in the Over-the-Hill community.
“I have to pay rent and put food on the table, so I’m really, really, highly grateful for the opportunity to have this job. I...
BTVI Freeport Students Achieve City and Guilds’ Certification
Seven Hutchison Ports FCP apprentices recently passed the City and Guilds Level 3 Principles of Engineering Maintenance, Installation and Commissioning diploma offered through the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI).
Students would have studied subjects such as Physics, Advanced Math, Advanced Science, Fabrication and Hydraulics, and Welding. The diploma is the equivalent of an a...
BTVI Employee Retires after Nearly 50 Years of Service
For nearly 50 years, David Barry worked at one place. He became a Painting and Decorating student in 1969, back when The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) was known as Nassau Technical Centre. He went on to become an apprentice and after nearly five decades of teaching, recently retired...
BTVI Officials Visit Florida's Valencia College to Learn about Technical Training Programs, Explore Partnership Options
A team of officials from the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) visited the Orlando campuses of Valencia College to tour the facilities, as they prepare to rebuild their campuses in the aftermath of hurricane Dorian...
Ministry of Works offers Career Mentoring to High School Students
Public and private high school students are being exposed to careers in welding, architecture, engineering and more thanks to a new mentorship programme by the Ministry of Public Works...
BTVI Classes to Resume in Grand Bahama
BTVI Classes to Resume in Grand Bahama
Following the devastation wreaked by hurricane Dorian, the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) is preparing to resume classes in Grand Bahama on October 7th...
BAIC-Master's Marine Shipyard
BAIC-Master's Marine Shipyard
The company is called Master’s Marine Shipyard. It is the newest business to become operational on over four thousand acres of land leased from the Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation on the former Hatchet Bay Plantation shipyard in Hatchet Bay Harbour, Alice Town, Eleuthera...
BTVI Graduating Class of 2019, Set to help fill National Skills Gap
Nearly 300 proud graduates and their families and friends took over Melia Nassau Beach resort for the Bahamas Technical & Vocational Institute’s (BTVI) Commencement Ceremony, Tuesday, May 21, 2019...