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September 08, 2017
BPL gives update on southern islands

At 2pm Bahamas Power and Light issued an update on the situation in the south islands.

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August 02, 2017
Clear Solutions Plus from the Southern Shores Community, presented four dozen T-shirt to The Hon. Frankie Campbell

Members of Clear Solutions Plus from the community of Southern Shores presented four (4) dozen T-shirts to The Honorable Frankie Alfred Campbell, Minister of Transport and Local Government for a tennis summer camp that starts august 1st 2017 hosted by Cory Francis...

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September 07, 2017
Relief for southern evacuees

IVA Nixon, 79, breathed a sigh of relief as she stepped off a Bahamasair jet and onto the tarmac at the Lynden Pindling International Airport yesterday, telling reporters no one should be thinking about material things amid evacuations from Mayaguana, Inagua, Crooked Island, Acklins, Long Cay and Ragged Island ahead of monster storm Hurricane Irma's arrival to the country.

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September 07, 2017
BPL evacuating employees in southern Bahamas

As Hurricane Irma descends on The Bahamas, Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) Board Chairman Darnell Osborne said yesterday that all BPL employees in the southern Bahamas have been ordered to evacuate to New Providence.
"For BPL's employees it is mandatory that they evacuate and the corporation will house them in hotels and their families as well," she said during a press conference at the Clifton Pier...

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September 06, 2017
BPL employees ordered to leave southern Bahamas

All Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) employees in Southern Bahamas will be evacuated to New Providence today, BPL Chairman Darnell Osbourne announced.
The move comes as the dangerous category five Hurricane Irma moves toward The Bahamas. The southeastern Bahamas is expected to begin feeling the impact of the storm by tomorrow night.
The mandatory evacuation of BPL employees will leave residents in Ma...

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September 05, 2017
Prayers, preparation as Irma takes aim at southern Bahamas

Some residents in family island communities have not yet rebuilt from hurricanes Joaquin and Matthew, but their focus this week is preparing for Irma, which is forecasted to hit the southern Bahamas by Thursday.
Inagua Island Administrator Julita Ingraham said yesterday Inagua is prepared for the storm.
She said the homes of some people in Matthew Town are still damaged from Hurricane Matthew in O...

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October 27, 2015
'Rebuild Bahamas' Telethon to Help Southern Islands

When ZNS, Cable TV and JCN zoom in on the Imperial Ballroom at Atlantis and go live at 6 p.m. today, viewers will see far more than the start of a telethon - they will see one of the greatest expressions of unity in the history of The Bahamas as Rebuild Bahamas gets underway.

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July 07, 2017
Southern Bahamas and national arts festival: A comment on the state of education

As we travel to the southern Bahamas, the scope and scale of change becomes clear. Once vibrant southern ports stand almost abandoned, virtually wild-west-like, with tumbleweed rolling through the streets, no people, few or no surviving business; all a dusty, ramshackle shadow of former grandeur.
A big part of this trip has been to see the participants in the national arts festival. It was yet ano...

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June 29, 2017
Mr. Bahamas to compete in Southern States Championships

One of the fastest rising bodybuilders in the country is preparing to compete for the first time in the United States, going up against some of the toughest competitors in the region.
Jameil Hamilton, 28, will represent The Bahamas at the 2017 NPC (National Physique Committee) Southern States Championships, which will be held July 7 and 8 at the War Memorial Auditorium in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. ...

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May 01, 2017
UB Plans to Seek Accreditation from Southern Association of Colleges and School

President of The University of The Bahamas (UB) Dr. Rodney Smith announced that the University is seeking to be accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS)...

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