Save The Bays Hits 15,000 Friends on Facebook, Believed to be Record Number for a Bahamian NGO

If you ever doubted that the Bahamian public cared about the environment, a milestone that occurred early this morning should have erased those doubts...

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Local NGOS Benefit from International Support in HIV/AIDS Fight

Four New Providence based non-governmental organizations (NGOs), the Bahamas AIDS Foundation, Bahamas Red Cross, Bahamas United Initiatives and the Bahamas Urban Youth Development Center...

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Sustainable Seafood NGO Launches New FishChoice 2013 Platform

Fort Collins, CO -
Nearly four years since the first iteration of its website launched,
FishChoice, Inc. has launched a new platform, "FishChoice 2013," to
better serve those businesses that buy and sell sustainable seafood.

FishChoice
2013's free membership platform offers distributors, supermarkets,
restaurants, chefs, and others a dynamic sustainable seafood resource
designed for busines...

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Civil Society Bahamas - The Apex Body of NGOs

Nassau, Bahamas - Civil Society Bahamas (CSB) in keeping with its current operational theme, "Re-education, Train ing and Development", has decided to explain three terms of references usually associated with and sometimes used interchangeably during discussions about civil society in The Bahamas.

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OAS Permanent Council Approves Participation Of 24 Additional NGOs In Dialogue On Strengthening The Inter-American System Of Human Rights

The Permanent Council of the Organization of American States (OAS) today
approved the participation of 24 new civil society organizations in the
debate on the strengthening of the Inter-American Human Rights System,
which will continue with a new meeting of the Council on December 7.

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NGOs can kill your economy

Dr. Gary Conille, the prime minister of Haiti, in an address delivered in Varsovie, Poland, recently informed the world that 99 percent of the grants, gifts and help offered to Haiti after the devastating earthquake of January 12, 2010, went to the NGOs; the government received the remaining one percent.
The result is clear to the naked eye.  Haiti is almost as fragile before and after the ea...

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National NGO Capacity Building Summit

Tuesday 12th April 2011

The objectives of the summit are to sensitize the public about the role of civil society, and to create a platform for capacity building and networking amongst NGO?s in the country.

Haiti And The Entrenched Business Of The NGOs

"There are plenty of reasons why countries have made mistakes. Often their decisions are driven by a particular interest group or a coalition of them whose short-term gains stand at odds with the nation's long-term interest. Some interest groups have captured countries and dragged them down, some have been resisted," said Alan Beattie in False Economy.

Yet, history is not determined by fate or ...

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Palmdale Primary gets Pinwheel Garden as part of Child Protection Month activities

The Government of The Bahamas is intent on maintaining safe environments in which children can thrive -- free from all forms of abuse be it physical, mental, verbal and/or sexual, in addition to neglect, Minister of Social Services, Information and Broadcasting the Hon. Myles K. LaRoda said Monday.

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Sustainability First: Coral Reef Damage Being Assessed by D.E.P.P.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Last week, divers and environmental ngos were outraged after seeing shocking videos, allegedly showing a yacht anchor dragging along reefs in Southern New Providence near the Clifton area.

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