Senior Citizens graduate from computer classes

Nassau, The Bahamas - Nine Bahamian seniors are now
equipped with 21st
century computer skills. The Eighth annual course gave the seniors an
opportunity to update their technical skills, learn how to email and keep in
communication with their families and grandchildren, who may live abroad.

The computer classes have been the ongoing mission
of former chairperson of the National Council of Older P...

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Bahamian Citizen Voter Registration Continues

The Parliamentary Commissioner wishes
to remind the general public that Voter Registration continues on a
daily basis in New Providence and in the Family Islands. Persons applying
for registration must be Bahamian citizens, 18 years and older and must
have resided in a particular constituency for three months or more.
 

Voter Registration Centres are opened
in New Providence between th...

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Citizens, Saints and Servants

WE all know persons who have applied for citizenship in this country or elsewhere. Once it is accepted, this involves certain privileges and responsibilities, the paying of taxes and answering calls to service.

Similarly, Ephesians 2: 13-22 makes references to several positions that we hold in God's Kingdom: "So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are citizens with the saints a...

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Scouts donate food to senior citizens facility

The Grand Bahama District of the Scout Association of the Bahamas recently donated food to Raybertha's Citizens Centre, an assisted living facility for senior citizens.

Clayton Curtis, acting district commissioner, said the Scouts also interacted with seniors during their visit to the facility on Thursday.

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GB SENIOR CITIZEN CENTRE NAMED AFTER 101-YEAR-OLD COMMUNITY ICON

LAST weekend marked the opening of a new senior citizen and community centre in the Hawksbill settlement named after a 101-year-old icon on the island of Grand Bahama. Member of Parliament for Eight Mile Rock Vernae Grant officially opened the Lillian Been Community/Senior Citizen Centre. A known icon in the Hawksbill settlement and in Grand Bahama, Lillian Been has been teaching music and taking...

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'New citizens should wait to have a vote'

FORMER parliamentarian Loretta Butler-Turner says she believes the government should legislate "a timeframe" for naturalised Bahamians to become participants in the nation's electoral process.

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'Reno' donates eggs to senior citizen homes

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced a number of Bahamian athletes to be innovative, thinking outside of the box, in their charitable efforts, and one of those athletes is middleweight boxer Tureano “Reno” Johnson.

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Judges sit to settle right to be citizen

THE Court of Appeal held a rare full-court hearing yesterday to consider Supreme Court Justice Ian Winder's historic ruling that children born out of wedlock to Bahamian men and foreign women are citizens at birth and do not have to wait until 18 to apply for citizenship.

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Abusing the rights of citizens?

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Choir sings for senior citizens

MEMBERS of the Public Service Choir continued their annual tradition of singing Christmas carols to senior citizens in Grand Bahama yesterday...

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