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June 08, 2023
ROYAL CARIBBEAN GROUP ANNOUNCES GROUND-BREAKING BIOFUEL TESTING, ACCELERATING THE INDUSTRY'S ENERGY TRANSITION

This summer, Royal Caribbean Group (NYSE: RCL) will set a new industry milestone in alternative fuel use when Celebrity Cruises’ Celebrity Apex and Royal Caribbean International’s Symphony of the Seas, set sail in Europe using sustainable biofuel to meet part of the ships’ fuel needs.

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March 13, 2011
Biofuel facility's prospects 'are not rosy': Wells

By ALISON LOWE
Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

The prospects for Bacardi's former Clifton Pier processing facility to be turned into a biofuel-manufacturing plant "are not rosy", a former Cabinet minister behind the idea has admitted, as the group seeking to advance the proposal have run into problems in identifying where they will source raw material from and a destination to export th...

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November 24, 2010
Biofuel financing held up by market identification need

By ALISON LOWE

Business Reporter

alowe@tribunemedia.net

Financing for a proposed biodiesel manufacturing plant in western New Providence is still up in the air, according to former MP and Cabinet Minister Tennyson Wells, with pinning down a market for the fuel being deemed pivotal to moving ahead.

Mr Wells confirmed his investor group's hopes of acquiring Bacardi's former Clifton Pier Facility...

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December 08, 2014
200M biofuel project proposal

Bio Revolution America wants to invest $200 million in a biofuel project in The Bahamas, and the principals of the company could meet with Prime Minister Perry Christie about it as early as Wednesday, Guardian Business has learned.
Should the project succeed, it could mean the creation of a viable biofuel source for The Bahamas and perhaps eventually for export purposes. The agriculture, power gen...

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November 29, 2013
Grand Bahama Power Company introduces biofuel production

The president and CEO of Emera, parent company of the Grand Bahama Power Company GBPC), has charged that biofuel production could be a "transformational" initiative for The Bahamas which could be expanded throughout the Family Islands.
His comments came as the Grand Bahama Power Company has begun experimenting with the feasibility of introducing biofuel production to Grand Bahama in the hope of be...

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August 25, 2023
Developing a cannabis industry

Views on marijuana have shifted dramatically. Uruguay was the first country in the world to fully legalize in December 2013. Its dispensaries began selling weed in July 2017. In the United States, marijuana is illegal at the national level. However, some states have fully legalized. Medical marijuana is legal in most states. The old view that ...
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March 16, 2023
Ministry of Environment team tours RCCL's 'Harmony of the Seas'

The Hon. Vaughn P. Miller, Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources, and State Minister the Hon. Basil McIntosh along with a team of Ministry representatives embraced Royal Caribbean’s welcome on a recent tour of ‘Harmony of the Seas’ the third largest ship of their fleet.

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September 22, 2022
Cloud Carib Sponsors BETA Camp for Fourth Consecutive Year and New FLIGHT Camp

Now in its ninth year, BETA Camp Bahamas was finally able to return to in-person learning sessions for its annual 2-week camp with as many as seven different engineering streams ranging from software and mechanical engineering to aerospace engineering, rocketry, and even a bio-medical engineering stream.

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February 23, 2022
Minister Sweeting Participates in AIM Ministerial Meeting in Dubai

Minister of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Family Island Affairs, the Hon. Clay Sweeting, participated in the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate’s (AIM) first ministerial meeting held during the World Expo 2020 on February 22. AIM, which was established by the United States and the United Arab Emirates at COP 26, catalyzes greater investment in agriculture and innovation to help raise...

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July 26, 2021
NPEP sponsors STEM waste management summer camp for girls

The New Providence Ecology Park (NPEP) announced its sponsorship of a two-week STEM Waste Management Summer Camp for girls ages thirteen to eighteen. The project-based camp, hosted by FEM STEM Bahamas, focuses on a number of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines related to waste management including, sustainable manufacturing, aquaponics, biofuel & bioenergy, and the...

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