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August 04, 2023
Ministry launches emergency water extraction plan to address flooding

THE Ministry of Works has launched an emergency water extraction plan to better address flooding and other water issues caused by extreme weather conditions.

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August 03, 2023
Ministry Of Works & Utilities Launches Emergency Water Extraction Plan In Low Lying Areas

Over the last two weeks, Nassau has witnessed a mix of scattered showers coupled with torrential downpours which resulted in flooding in several low lying areas such as Pinewood, Nassau Village, and Bay Street.

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January 28, 2023
Statement From The Ministry of Foreign Affairs On Successful Extraction of Bahamian Diplomats

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is able to confirm that this morning all seven Bahamian diplomats, including the spouse of the Charge d’Affaires, were airlifted out of Port-au-Prince by helicopter and have landed safely in the Dominican Republic.

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February 12, 2020
Closures signal illegals extraction

IMMIGRATION Minister Elsworth Johnson said yesterday immigration officials will "extract" undocumented migrants living in shelters throughout New Providence once those facilities have been deactivated...

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April 18, 2024
Nationwide survey finds overwhelming support for permanent oil drilling ban

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The results of a new nationwide survey commissioned by a conservation group indicate that there is overwhelming support in The Bahamas for a permanent ban on oil drilling, with 86 percent of participants backing legislation to permanently halt all fossil fuel exploration in order to protect the country's marine environment and coastal [...]

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January 19, 2024
Lucaya Service Company provides update on Fortune Bay canal maintenance

FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMA — Lucaya Service Company (LUSCO) has shared an update on the progress of the Fortune Bay Canal Maintenance, Dredging & Jetty Repair Project.  "Marine side activities are well advanced, with the first of three dredging segments now completed. Excavation dredging has commenced at the second segment and near the entrance of the [...]

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November 30, 2023
Conservation advocates urge government to endorse fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty

 NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Conservation advocates are calling on the government of The Bahamas to join Pacific Island nations, as well as Antigua and Barbuda, among other jurisdictions, international entities, and prominent individuals, in endorsing the groundbreaking initiative for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty. This petition comes as The Davis Administration is representing the count...

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November 07, 2023
PM Davis: Fisheries Institute Conference will have dialogue that will lead to ‘a range of auspicious, actionable outcomes for the region’

While bringing Keynote Remarks at the 76th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute conference, on November 6, 2023, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the Hon. Philip Davis noted that that forum would be filled with “fruitful dialogue that, through sustained and considered collaboration, will lead to a range of auspicious, actionable outcomes for the region."

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September 22, 2023
New agency to crack down on illegal mining of natural resources

NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The government is establishing a new agency that will enforce all of the country's laws concerning its natural resources, according to National Security Minister Wayne Munroe. While addressing the Abaco Business Outlook conference yesterday, Munroe said that The Bahamas Wildlife Enforcement Network, intended to be an armed law enforcement agency, will be [...]

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April 27, 2010
Law and Politics: Memory loss in the oil race!

It never ceases to shock right thinking and ordinary human beings, how some people go out of their way to fool and deceive others.

But history is loaded with examples of how those same people only end up fooling and deceiving themselves.

What they do over a period of time, is that they decide whatever they want to achieve, by whatever means, and then they invent reasons to try and make it lo...

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