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February 05, 2015
Cat Island Sailing Club to honor King at regatta

The Cat Island Sailing Club will host its 59th annual regatta in New Bight, Cat Island, from July 31 to August 3, this year.

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July 08, 2017
$45K to Cat Island Regatta; Sailing this year to Honour Zeke Taylor

The annual Cat Island Regatta will be held this year in New Bight, Cat Island, on Emancipation Weekend during the holiday of August 4-7, 2017 the Ministry of Agriculture & Marine Resources announced, on July 6, at its offices. Parliamentary Secretary Carlton Bowleg...

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December 02, 2016
Cat Island Sailing Club Invests in Youth

The future of Cat Island is beginning to look brighter, as the Cat Island Sailing Club Association awarded five students with scholarships to attend the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI).

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July 07, 2016
Cat Island Sailing Club to honour Godfrey Kelly at 60th Regatta

Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources the Hon. V. Alfred Gray in a press conference on Wednesday announced the upcoming Diamond Jubilee Anniversary of the Cat Island Regatta July 29 to August 1, 2016 in New Bight Cat Island, and that Co-Founder of the Cat Island Regatta Godfrey Kelly would be honoured.

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October 26, 2016
Cat Island Sailing Club to host boat cruise for hurricane relief

In an effort to assist those greatly impacted by Hurricane Matthew, the Cat Island Sailing club will host a boat cruise this weekend with the majority of the proceeds going toward families affected during the hurricane.

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October 30, 2015
Cat Island Sailing Association comes to the aid of deserving youth

The Cat Island Sailing Association continues to invest in the youth of Cat Island by awarding academic scholarships. For the second consecutive year, and with the help of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC), the association has provided financial assistance to four young people who hail from the island, with each student being granted $500.

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April 16, 2012
Rt. Hon. Hubert A. Ingraham Prime Minister Constituency Opening in Cat Island

Good Evening Cat Island,
Colour Red has come to Cat Island! And we are very happy to be here, the cradle of Bahamian culture ? rake n?scrape music, Quadrille dancing, Cuomo Hill/Mt. Alvernia, and the site of slave plantations ruins -- too many to mention. And home of some of the most productive, most educated and most artistically gifted people in The Bahamas.

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April 27, 2015
Cat Island to honour one of its native sons

When the 2015 Cat Island Regatta is held later this year, it will be a very special event for the King family as the Cat Island Association has selected the family?s patriarch and one of that island?s boat building and sailing legends, the late Herbert King. During a meeting with and courtesy call on the Deputy Prime Minister and area MP, the Hon. Philip Brave Davis at the Ministry of Works, the D...

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February 05, 2015
Cat Island Regatta legacy continues under Strachan

During the 1970s, the culture of major regattas for a select number of the Family Islands was strengthened. Cat Island was in that group of islands that presented social/sports sailing extravaganzas that complimented quite well the annual premier sailing event in Exuma.

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July 04, 2010
Caribbean travel writers feature Cat Island

Drawn to Cat Island by the annual Rake N' Scrape festival, writers for Caribbean Travel & Life Magazine David Herndon and Zachary L Stovall spent three days talking to islanders and touring.

Developing material for a feature on the island , Herndon and Stovall made a beeline on arrival for the home of Minerva Rolle for an interview. She is the oldest woman resident of Bennett's Harbour, and she...

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