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Acklins Cut Off Despite Public Outcry
Acklins Cut Off Despite Public Outcry
Despite rising appeals from community leaders in Acklins, money owed by the government to businesses and social services workers has not reached the struggling island.
BDB Heads to Acklins
BDB Heads to Acklins
In continuation of fulfilling its mandate to expand the Bahamian economy, The Bahamas Development Bank (BDB) travels to Acklins, Crooked Island and Samana Cay, to advance its program to industrialize cascarilla...
REV partners with BreAnn's Care Closet to donate school uniforms
REV has partnered with Nassau-based charity BreAnn's Care Closet to help make this back-to-school season more manageable for families in Acklins. For its part, the telecommunications company made a generous donation to BreAnn's Care Closet to purchase uniforms for students on the island.
NEMA Conducts Surface Water Rescue Course in Acklins
NEMA Conducts Surface Water Rescue Course in Acklins
In keeping with its goals to establish disaster resilient communities, the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), conducted a Surface Water Rescue Course on this island ? one of the areas hardest hit by Hurricane Joaquin last October.
Clean-Up Crew Travels to Acklins; Ragged Island Second Evacuation Tomorrow
Director of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Captain Stephen Russell said there would be a flight today, September 12, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. to Salina Point, Acklins...
Salina Point without electricity, phones for at least four days
THERE was no communication with Salina Point, Acklins, for at least four days due to the devastation from Hurricane Joaquin, according to member of Parliament for MICAL V Alfred Gray...
Salina Point Primary Project aims to preserve environment, while assisting student who ‘loves to help others’
Salina Point Primary Project aims to preserve environment, while assisting student who ‘loves to help others’
School officials and students at the Salina Point Primary School in Salina Point, Acklins, have become great examples of how schools can effect positive change within their communities while also helping to preserve the environment with the launch of a Tyre Recycling/Refurbishment Project...
Florida churches donate to NEMA
Florida churches donate to NEMA
New Beginnings Missionary Baptist Church of Miami, Florida, and its partners New Birth Cathedral, Miami; Mt. Bethel of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Trinity Global Cathedral, The Bahamas, and TMF Aircraft in Florida presented an assortment of relief supplies...