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December 23, 2017
Bahamas Waste Engages Community Partner for Successful Island Cleanup Campaign

As the island of New Providence has undergone major developments, populations have shifted with communities springing up in areas where they did not previously exist; creating the need for more effective waste management solutions...

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October 11, 2017
'Time to Cleanup' Gets Started

The Ministry of Environment & Housing this month has begun a 'Time to Clean Up' Campaign. Catching the theme, on Friday and Saturday through Old Boat Alley, off Market Street, residents gathered for two days to clean up their surroundings, making a difference in their communities...

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October 11, 2017
National Cleanup Initiative Launched: DEHS to advise communities on Placement and Pickup of Waste

The Ministry of Environment and Housing via the Department of Environmental Health Services (DEHS) launched the National Cleanup Initiative on October 1, 2017...

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September 26, 2017
Ministry of the Environment awaits full picture of Irma's Impact; encourages environmental cleanup volunteerism

Minister of the Environment & Housing, the Hon. Romauld Ferreira, M.P. addressed House of Assembly last Wednesday, on September 20th, to share his concern for the homelessness and collateral damage left behind by Hurricane Irma earlier this month, throughout the archipelago of the Caribbean region...

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September 19, 2017
Butterfield Employees around the world participate in coastal cleanup

Employees of Butterfield Group companies around the world joined forces with local environmental groups to take part in the International Costal Clean-Up on Saturday, 16 September 2017. 267 Butterfield team members cleared 113 bags of trash and recyclables from public spaces in six countries during the first of what will become an annual Community Action Day for the Bank...

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July 05, 2017
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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June 29, 2017
Darville: No evidence of wrongdoing in GB hurricane cleanup

Progressive Liberal Party Senator Dr. Michael Darville said yesterday there is "no evidence of any wrongdoing" in the cleanup efforts that took place in Grand Bahama after Hurricane Matthew and maintained that "full value for money" was received.
Darville's comments follow revelations made by Minister of State for Grand Bahama Kwasi Thompson in the Senate, that the Christie administration awarded ...

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June 22, 2017
Chamber CEO urges public procurement process cleanup

CEO of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers' Confederation (BCCEC) Edison Sumner said the government's system for awarding contracts would see a complete turnaround after government cleans up the public procurement process, puts in place freedom of information, has transparency in government and implements fiscal responsibility rules.
In addition to those features, Sumner said the complet...

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April 13, 2017
Frequent Visitor Conducts Successful Cleanup in McLean's Town with It's Residents

For frequent visitor to Grand Bahama, Steve Wilson, ?the reef restoration and coastal clean up on April 8, in McLean?s Town, was a labor of love and an opportunity to tangibly give back to a community that had given so much to me,? he said...

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April 03, 2017
Reef Restoration and Coastal Cleanup Planned for McLeans Town-April 8

Organizers for the First Annual McLeans Town Reef Restoration and Coastal Cleanup project are excited about its massive clean up exercise, scheduled to take place, Saturday, April 8, 2017 at 8:00 a.m. commencing at the government dock in McLeans Town...

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