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Speed Week 2012 Event Report & Caption Competition
Speed Week 2012 Event Report & Caption Competition
First of all, the Speed Week organisers would like to wish you a very HAPPY NEW YEAR and the best possible year ahead. We hope you enjoy reading the report of our 2012 event as much as our Entrants did participating in it.
Speed Week Brought Us Together
Speed Week Brought Us Together
Dear Editor,
I want to thank the people of The Bahamas for the great time I had at Bahamas Speed Week Revival 2012. It was a brilliant experience for me to come to your island and I really enjoyed meeting everyone, from Betty and the security team at the Hangar where the karts were kept, to the children of St. Andrew's School and the headmaster and pupils of Government High School, and all the...
The Ultimate Friday Night Out Party
The Ultimate Friday Night Out Party
Stylish, smart, trendsetting and on-the-go women know that there's only one place to be tonight -- and that's at the little pink party. It's a trip into the world of all things fashionable and scrumptious to shop, sip, see, sample, snap, score, and squeeze all they can out of an event that is a style emporium.
Govt Gets 200,000 Grant To Assist With Storm Damage
Govt Gets 200,000 Grant To Assist With Storm Damage
The Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) yesterday offered the Bahamas government a $200,000 grant to assist with restorative efforts following Hurricane Sandy, which devastated pockets of the country last week, Prime Minister Perry Christie revealed.
Kids for conservation
Kids for conservation
Summer -- it's all about time away from the classroom and long, lazy days, but for 30 youngsters, at least a week of their school break will be spent exploring the country's natural marine and wildlife and discovering ways to preserve the unique local environment. The students are participating in the Con"Zoo"Con "Zoo" vation Summer Camp at the Ardastra Gardens and Zoo.
The Con "Zoo" vation Summer...
Time to get campy
Time to get campy
The days are winding down -- the kids can't wait to break loose from the "prison" they call school and the parents ... well they're in a quandary right about now because they don't want them sitting at home, vegging out all day for the entire summer break. Parents are now faced with the dilemma of how to keep their children occupied, but in a fun way.
Most years, parents resort to sending their ch...
Atlantis, Paradise Island Successfully Releases Two Manatees
Released after six months in the care of the Caribbean?s only Rescue and Rehabilitation Center
PARADISE ISLAND, THE BAHAMAS (April 19, 2012) ? Atlantis, Paradise Island's Animal Rescue team has successfully released two manatees in the Great Harbour Cay area of The Bahamas, marking Atlantis? first-ever live release of its kind. Rita and Georgie, a mother and calf, have been in the care of Atla...
The endangered Smalltooth Sawfish gives birth at Atlantis, Paradise Island
PARADISE ISLAND - Atlantis, Paradise Island, an Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) accredited facility, achieved a major milestone as the first and only facility in the world to have reproductive success of the smalltooth sawfish, a critically endangered species. Two male and two female pups were born at the facility in The Bahamas on April 12, 2012. The smalltooth sawfish is listed on Appendi...
AZA Grants Accreditation To Atlantis, Paradise Island
Silver Spring, Maryland ? The Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) today announced that Atlantis, Paradise Island resort in The Bahamas was granted accreditation by AZA?s independent Accreditation Commission. Atlantis Resort was first accredited and publicly recognized for its high standard of animal care on March 27, 2007.
Rebecca Stirm wins again with designs inspired by the turtle
Kingston, Jamaica -
Having won prior challenges on episodes two, four and six,
Rebecca Stirm's episode 9 win makes the Belizean the winningest designer on
Season Two of Caribbean fashion reality series Mission Catwalk which has seen participants
from five Caribbean countries competing in its second season.
After a visit to the Hope Zoo, the seven remaining contestants
were instructed to design a...