NEMA hands out cash to Ragged families

WEEKS ahead of the one year anniversary of Hurricane Irma, which devastated Ragged Island, the National Emergency Management Agency issued more than $70,000 in financial assistance to affected residents.

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Beach Cleanup Volunteers Get a Treat from BTC

Company partners with Ragged Island Cultural and Heritage Association...Ragged Island Native Amanda Curling spearheads an annual initiative for her hometown every year...

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Ragged Island Residents Excited About New Infrastructure

Duncan Town, Ragged Island -- A resurfaced airport runway, a dock and paved road are on the way for Ragged Island, and the 60 plus residents who live there are excited and looking forward to the new infrastructure.

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PM: Politics Should be Eliminated in the Granting of Public Contracts

The Bahamas has wasted too much public funds in granting contracts to persons who failed to perform the job, and the Government is seeking to remove political influence from the process of granting publicly tendered contracts, Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham told reporters Monday.

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Visitors capture Marathon Bahamas titles

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Odyssey Aviation supports Ride for Hope for the eighth year

Ride for Hope organizers visited Odyssey Aviation to show their appreciation and thanks for their continued support in the Ride for Hope. This will be the eighth consecutive year that Odyssey Aviation has participated. Odyssey Aviation is one of the founding Corporate Sponsors of the Ride for Hope event...

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U.S. Government Donates 30,000 to the Salvation Army to Repair Hurricane Shelters

Nassau, Bahamas - On Thursday, June
20, the United States Government through the Office of Foreign Disaster
Assistance (OFDA) formally presented The Bahamas Division of the
Salvation Army Bahamas Division with a $30,000 USD grant to assist with
critical repairs and refitting of two emergency community shelters in
the Bain and Grants Town communities in Nassau.? The donation is timely
a...

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Christie Won't be Pressured on BEC

Prime Minister Perry Christie yesterday chastised the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union (BEWU) for making public demands on him to fire Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) Chairman Leslie Miller, charging that he does not do business that way."

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