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Cat Island, Bahamas


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April 27, 2015
Cat Island to honour one of its native sons

When the 2015 Cat Island Regatta is held later this year, it will be a very special event for the King family as the Cat Island Association has selected the family?s patriarch and one of that island?s boat building and sailing legends, the late Herbert King. During a meeting with and courtesy call on the Deputy Prime Minister and area MP, the Hon. Philip Brave Davis at the Ministry of Works, the D...

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April 16, 2012
Rt. Hon. Hubert A. Ingraham Prime Minister Constituency Opening in Cat Island

Good Evening Cat Island,
Colour Red has come to Cat Island! And we are very happy to be here, the cradle of Bahamian culture ? rake n?scrape music, Quadrille dancing, Cuomo Hill/Mt. Alvernia, and the site of slave plantations ruins -- too many to mention. And home of some of the most productive, most educated and most artistically gifted people in The Bahamas.

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March 27, 2023
PM Davis calls the future building of the New Bight International Airport ‘truly exciting’

Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the Hon. Philip Davis said that what his Government is building in New Bight, Cat Island, is “truly exciting,” and an important part of a “broader push to support the vitality of all our Family Islands.”

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December 02, 2016
Cat Island Sailing Club Invests in Youth

The future of Cat Island is beginning to look brighter, as the Cat Island Sailing Club Association awarded five students with scholarships to attend the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI).

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July 28, 2016
Kalik proudly sponsors 60th Annual Cat Island Regatta

Kalik, the beer of the Bahamas, is the proud sponsor of the 60th Annual Cat Island Regatta. This year?s event is scheduled for July 29 to August 1, 2016 at the regatta site in New Bight, Cat Island.

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May 11, 2016
Fundraiser to help form Cat Island marching band

RUDOLPH Stubbs, president of the Cat Island Development Association of Grand Bahama, has announced plans for a fundraiser this weekend in Cat Island to assist students with forming a marching band there.

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November 02, 2015
AMMC researchers visit Cat Island to capture oral history

Last month, Dr. Michael Pateman, Senior Archeologist at Antiquities, Monuments and Museum Corporation (AMMC) and researcher, Christopher Davis set out on a mission to document the history and heritage of Cat Island.

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November 19, 2014
Award winning studentss renovate historic Cat Island kitchen

Fulfilling a promise to Cat Island native, the late Margaretta Rolle, students of the award winning Indaba Project are working hard to restore Mrs Rolle?s historic detached limestone kitchen in the mystic island...

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