Grand Bahama Port Authority supports inner city community clean-up

Executives and staff of the Grand Bahama Port Authority, Limited, along with Keep Grand Bahama Clean (KGBC) committee members, turned out in large numbers on Saturday in support of the clean-up campaign in the inner city Pineridge community.

read more »

Disaster Management and Recovery Workshop held on Grand Bahama

The Caribbean Central American Action and the National Emergency Management Agency held a Disaster Management and Recovery Workshop in Freeport, Grand Bahama on April 30, 2009.

read more »

Grand Bahama school children participate in Earth Day

The Grand Bahama Port Authority Limited spearheaded the ?Keep Grand Bahama Clean? Campaign, in conjunction with the Department of Environmental Health Services, Urban Renewal Programme and Sanitation Services.

read more »

Two Arraigned For Dangerous Driving

Two Grand Bahama residents were arraigned in the Freeport Magistrate Court on Friday to answer two separate charges of killing in the course of dangerous driving.

read more »

Helping Haiti is the right thing to do

To call what is occurring in Haiti a crisis is perhaps a deep understatement. A complex cocktail of systemic challenges exploded with the spark that was the assassination of then-President Jovenel Moise in July 2021. Prior to that, Haiti experienced frequent changes in leadership and political unrest for decades. This instability has hindered effective governance, ...
The post Helping Haiti is the...

read more »

Contracts signed for Exuma Water Supply Improvement Projects

Some 425 homes and businesses in Little Exuma and 130 homes and businesses in Baraterre will receive running water for the first time as a result of two contracts totaling over $9 million signed today (July 12, 2023) between the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC), Bakerwick Construction Company Limited and Rowdy Boys Construction.

read more »

50 Shades Of Heritage Hosted by The Rotaract Club of Nassau Sunset

Monday 12th March 2018  6:30 PM

You're invited to join us as we jump-off World Rotaract Week with "50 Shades of Heritage" on Monday, 12th March, 2018 at The National Art Gallery.🎉

We are celebrating 50 Years of Rotaract Service and Water & Sanitation Month; this fundraising event is an International Joint Service with the Rotaract Club of UWI Piarco in Trinidad. Part proceeds go towards purchasing water sanitation sys...

Bahamas Welcomes 67th CARPHA Annual Health Research Conference

The Bahamas welcomed more than 200 delegates to the 67th Caribbean Public Health Agency’s (CARPHA) Annual Health Research Conference at the Official Opening Ceremony, Atlantis, Paradise Island, April 27, 2023.

read more »

UB Executive Vice President Awarded Prestigious Global Engineering Award

University of Colorado Boulder’s Mortenson Center in Global Engineering has awarded University of The Bahamas (UB) Executive Vice President Professor Sarim Al-Zubaidy, PhD, the 2021 Global Engineering Humanitarian Award, in recognition of his contributions to ensuring access to basic services such as water, sanitation, energy, shelter and infrastructure.

This newest honour notification follo...

read more »

Campbell to UN Body: Impacts of climate change on Small-Island Developing States must be acknowledged

The negative and indirect effects of climate change threaten the full and effective enjoyment of a range of human rights, including the right to life, education, food, health, water and sanitation, Minister of Social Services and Urban Development, the Hon. Frankie A. Campbell told a (Virtual) United Nations Multi-Stakeholder Hearing...

read more »