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Post-Dorian mangrove restoration picks up steam
Post-Dorian mangrove restoration picks up steam
In the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian, scientists and environmentalists leapt into action researching mangroves on Grand Bahama and Abaco, their health and how those ecosystems function. Some collected propagules (another name for mangrove seeds) and galvanized communities into establishing backyard nurseries and burrowing tiny mangrove plants called seedlings into areas hard hit by the Category 5 ...
A picture tour of Hope Town, Abaco
A picture tour of Hope Town, Abaco
Depending on where you start it takes some extra effort to get to Hope Town. If you have made it as far as Marsh Harbour, Abaco then it's just one more boat ride to Elbow Cay.
Once you get off the ferry there is a lot to take in and it's all packed tightly together. In Hope Town, the scale of the world has shrunk to fit life's usual characters and places into a fraction of the space. The peopl...
DAWN RAIDERS: Abaco shanty town The Farm is target of huge multi-agency operation
LAW enforcement descended upon The Farm shanty town in Abaco yesterday in a joint sting operation, confiscating generators, food supplies, personal items, illegal contraband and arresting several residents for various alleged infractions.
China Harbour Engineering Company Aids in Abaco Fire Relief
Staff take time out to deliver food and living supplies to victims. China Harbour Engineering Company (CHEC) yesterday joined efforts with the government to provide relief supplies for more than 100 Abaco residents who were left homeless following a fire in a local community...
Central & South Abaco Constituencies and Candidates
My son didn't have to die
My son didn't have to die
A GRIEVING family in Abaco wants the government to better equip the island with the resources needed to treat divers suffering from the bends after their loved one is believed to have died from symptoms associated with the illness last week.
Teenage girl dies in Abaco accident
Teenage girl dies in Abaco accident
A teen driver is dead following a traffic accident in Abaco earlier this week.
Neymour: Wilson City power plant 80% complete
Neymour: Wilson City power plant 80% complete
Minister of State for the Environment Phenton Neymour yesterday revealed that the Bahamas Electricity Corporation's (BEC) controversial Wilson City Power Plant in Abaco is 80 percent complete.
The progress report came the same day government officials and the activist group Responsible Development For Abaco headed to court over the multimillion-dollar plant.
'WE'RE HUMAN TOO': Shanty town residents hit out at authorities on tactics employed in raid
'WE'RE HUMAN TOO': Shanty town residents hit out at authorities on tactics employed in raid
RESIDENTS of The Farm shanty town in Abaco have hit out at what they claimed were heavy-handed tactics carried out during a raid on their community.
'No justification for illegal invasion of homes'
'No justification for illegal invasion of homes'
HUMAN Rights Bahamas has condemned what it called an "illegal" and "regressive" invasion of homes at a shanty town in Abaco yesterday.