Colina Launches 2014 Calender: "One With Nature"

Calendar uses dual image photography to reveal just how closely humans interact with and benefit from a healthy natural environment...

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Colina launches 2014 calendar 'One with Nature'

According to Senegalese poet Baba Dioum: "We conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." Colina Insurance Limited yesterday announced the launch of "One with Nature", its 2014 calendar focused on "teaching" the importance of environmental responsibility and protection of native species. The calendar features unique double expos...

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Ballots for the 20th Annual SAG Award? Nominations Mailed to the Committee Today

Ballots for the 20th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards? nominations will be mailed to this year?s SAG Awards film and television nominating committees today...

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Helping tradition continue

Dear Editor,

My name is George Phillips and I am an 84-year-old resident of Manitoba, Canada.
As a young boy I had the privilege of collecting stamps/coins/postcards from around the world.
There was no Internet or mass media back then and this was one of the ways that one discovered the world around them.
I would like to pass this down to my great grandson Tristan Phillips, so he too may enjoy a ...

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Five new stamps to commemorate the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II

NASSAU, Bahamas -- The Post Office Department has released a set of five new stamps to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Coronation of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
The five new stamps depict commemorative items and packaging released during the reigns of Victoria (65 cents), Edward VII (70 cents), George V (80 cents), George VI ($1.00) and Elizabeth II ($2.00), all based on images suppli...

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Of Sandy, Haiti and New York City

A disaster is an opportunity too precious not to be used as a surge for a renaissance.
As a transnational with residence in both Haiti and New York City, I found myself often comparing New York City to Haiti. Both have large crowds of people on the streets, busy going to and from work. While the crowd is nice, educated, elegant and well to do in New York, it is poor, uneducated albeit, well dres...

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Airport Boasts of Mangrove-inspired "Tree of Life"

Most airports are fast moving spaces. Even in The Bahamas, the newly renovated Lynden Pindling International Airport fits the norm. However, the wide variety of art installed in the recently opened arrivals terminal is sure to slow a person down, if only for a passing gaze.

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Book Binding Workshop

Saturday 17th March 2012  3:00 PM

Book Binding Workshop
Saturday, March 17, 2012
3pm to 6pm

Poinciana Paper Press is conducting a fun and totally free Book Binding Workshop on Saturday, March 17th at Popopstudios Center for the Visual Arts in Chippingham between 3pm and 6pm.

Come and learn the elegant Japanese stab binding and then make a beautiful one-of-a-kind notebook to take home with you. Please bring any scraps you m...

Bahamas Underwater Post Office

Did you know that the Bahamas had The World?s First Undersea Post Office?

The 1940 cover had a May 6th Sea Floor, Bahamas postmark. It was obvious that this cover had an interesting story to tell.

The world?s very first adhesive postage stamp went on sale in England on May 6, 1840 and the Bahamian cover was produced to commemorate the centenary of the Penny Black.

My research indicates th...

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