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December 16, 2019
Airlift to The Bahamas Increases to Accommodate country's Tourism Growth
As The Islands Of The Bahamas continue to push its “15 Islands Open for Business” message in the wake of Hurricane Dorian, the country continues to see an increase in airlift to three of its major destinations making it increasingly easy for visitors to travel from cities across the U.S. and Canada to enjoy a Bahamas vacation...
November 18, 2019
Miss World Queens Pay Courtesy Call at Government House
Governor General, His Excellency the Most Hon. Cornelius A. Smith received President of the Miss Bahamas Organization Michelle Malcolm, 2018 Miss World Vanessa Ponce de Leon, Miss World Bahamas 2019 Nyah Bandelier, and others as they paid a courtesy call at Government House, November 15, 2019...
sports inbrief
July 05, 2011
sports inbrief
BANKER'S SOFTBALL LEAGUE
THE Banker's Softball League continued its regular season action at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Saturday. The following results were posted:
November 07, 2019
Maxwell's Supermarket and Home Store reopening today on Abaco
Two months after Hurricane Dorian leveled parts of Abaco bringing commerce to a standstill, Maxwell's Supermarket and Home Store is reopening today, signaling the road to recovery of the island's devastated economy. Co-owner Chad Sawyer said though the building sustained minimal damage during the Category [...]
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November 01, 2019
Ministry of Education hosts first World Teachers’ Day Forum
Is the teaching profession under threat? Would technology and artificial intelligence replace teachers?..
Junkanoo Commandos’ relationship with Norfolk’s Caribbean Community results in donation of hurricane relief supplies
October 23, 2019
Junkanoo Commandos’ relationship with Norfolk’s Caribbean Community results in donation of hurricane relief supplies
Executives of the Junkanoo Commandos cultural organization turned over the paperwork to twenty-two, 55-gallon barrels filled with hurricane relief supplies to the Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development -- the result of a Bahamas Hurricane Relief Extravaganza organized by the Caribbean People Organization (CPO), Inc. a 501c3 organization, based in Norfolk, Virginia, United States of Amer...
October 22, 2019
Grand Bahama Utility Company Wellfields Inundated from Dorian Surge
It is now six weeks since Dorian’s passage through The Bahamas and the Grand Bahama Utility Company (GBUC), a subsidiary of Port Group Ltd (PGL) continues to work unflaggingly to fully restore its water services to residents across the Island...
John Bull Group of Companies Presents Cheque to #fitforschool to Assist Hurricane Dorian-Impacted Schoolchildren
October 17, 2019
John Bull Group of Companies Presents Cheque to #fitforschool to Assist Hurricane Dorian-Impacted Schoolchildren
Inga Bowleg, Director of Business Development, John Bull Group of Companies, presented Mrs. Patricia Minnis, wife of the Prime Minister, and Khrystle Rutherford-Ferguson, Chairman of the Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers’ Confederation (BCCEC), with a cheque that will go towards the BCCEC’s-led #fitforschool initiative of the Office of the Spouse of the Prime Minister. The presentati...
Bahamas invited to host 2022 WAMM Based on Country’s Leadership Role on Women and Women’s Empowerment
October 09, 2019
Bahamas invited to host 2022 WAMM Based on Country’s Leadership Role on Women and Women’s Empowerment
The Bahamas has been invited to serve as host of the Women's Affairs Ministerial Meeting (WAMM), scheduled for the year 2022. The invite was based on the country’s leadership focus on women’s empowerment in-country and within the region...
Big 'sports' challenge for tourism ministry
January 09, 2012
Big 'sports' challenge for tourism ministry
Over the last two years, Tyrone Sawyer, the Ministry of Tourism sports director, has been a central figure in the planning for all of the national athletic events that involved foreign participants.
With the blessing of Minister of Tourism Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, the Sports Tourism Department has come alive once again. There is a huge challenge facing the ministry however. Now, Vanderpool-Wall...
Teddy bears after the tragedy for displaced children
September 23, 2019
Teddy bears after the tragedy for displaced children
CLARA Smith, wife of Governor General C A Smith, along her daughter-in-law Charlene Smith, presented children who were displaced by Hurricane Dorian with teddy bears at their shelters last week.Mrs Smith was assisted by Kim Sawyer, deputy director, D
September 23, 2019
MIYA Bahamas Donates to Abaco’s Dorian Rebuild and the Grand Bahamas’ Children’s Home
As the national effort to rebuild and restore the islands impacted by Hurricane Dorian, MIYA Bahamas, - on Thursday, September 19, the company represented by Miya Bahamas Project Manager, Mario Tavera, made a donation of 15 thousand dollars to NEMA to assist, with the donated funds specifically earmarked to help rebuild and refurbish the Reverse Osmosis (RO) Plant in Marsh Harbour, Abaco which was...
Teddy Bears for Children in Shelters
September 20, 2019
Teddy Bears for Children in Shelters
Her Excellency Mrs. Clara Smith, wife of the Governor General, along her daughter-in-law Charlene Smith, and Kim Sawyer, Deputy Director, Department of Social Services presented children, who were displaced by Cat 5 Hurricane Dorian, with teddy bears at their shelters, September 18, 2019...
Erwin Wilfred 'Shorty' Pratt, 81
June 16, 2011
Erwin Wilfred 'Shorty' Pratt, 81
Erwin Wilfred "Shorty" Pratt, 81, of New Hope Drive, Joan's Heights, and formerly of Cabbage Point, Long Island will be held on Saturday, June 18, 2011? at 10:00 a.m. at Our Lady's of the Holy Souls Catholic Church, Deveaux Street.? Officiating will be Rev. Fr. Alain Laverne M.Div. assisted by Deacons Peter Rahming and Maxwell Johnson. Interment will follow in Lakeview Memorial Gardens, John F. Ke...
August 16, 2019
The Bahamas Engineering and Technology Advancement Camp-BETAC 2019 Come to an End
The Bahamas Engineering and Technology Advancement’s (BETA) sixth annual STEM-based summer camp came to an end on Saturday, August 3, 2019, with a closing and award ceremony on the grounds of Aquinas College at Loyola Hall. The commemoration honored the works and achievements of this year’s campers and camp facilitators during its one-week program.
August 14, 2019
Woman jewellery thief fails to overturn her two-year sentence
A WOMAN has failed in trying to get the appellate court to overturn her two-year sentence for stealing over $100,000 worth of watches from her employer, a high-end jewellery store on Paradise Island.
Loosening the grip
August 07, 2019
Loosening the grip
A bill prepared by a team of independent counsels who are advising Speaker of the House of Assembly Halson Moultrie seeks to put Parliament directly in control of its budget and loosen the Cabinet’s stranglehold on the administrative functions of the legislature...
Bahamas Football Association Technical Department Names their Boys Under 15 Team for the CONCACAF 2019 Qualifiers
August 05, 2019
Bahamas Football Association Technical Department Names their Boys Under 15 Team for the CONCACAF 2019 Qualifiers
The 2019 CONCACAF Under 15 Boys Qualifiers and Championships takes place August 4th. 2019 –August 9th, 2019...
Owen Lloyd Francis Funeral Service
July 16, 2019
Owen Lloyd Francis Funeral Service
Funeral service for Owen Lloyd Francis, 69 yrs., a resident of Blue Hill Heights & formerly of Spanish Town, Jamaica, will be held at Hillview Seventh-day Adventist Church, Tonique Williams Darling Highway, on Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 1:00 p.m...
June 26, 2019
Labour Minister Dion A. Foulkes - Budget Contribution in the Senate, June 25, 2019
On Friday of this week Her Excellency the Most Honourable Dame Marguerite Pindling will demit office as the ninth Bahamian Governor General...
Sprite Basketball Tournament Starts on July 1
June 25, 2019
Sprite Basketball Tournament Starts on July 1
The Sprite Basketball Tournament will celebrate 11 years when it begins on July 1 at the Carmichael Road Police Station. The Caribbean Bottling Company...
Regatta Time Again on Grand Bahama Island
June 25, 2019
Regatta Time Again on Grand Bahama Island
It’s Regatta Time again! All across the country, Bahamians are gathering to celebrate our annual down-home traditions, with sloop sailing, Bahamian music, crafts, food, and more...
June 22, 2019
Sickle Cell Association, Health Ministry Resolve to Collaborate, Educate
They came with eight ambitious points to discuss. They left with their resolve strengthened to educate and raise awareness for their community...
June 13, 2019
New school on the way for Inagua and capital works planned for other schools
Matthew Town, Inagua, is set to get a new school in the upcoming year and plans are on the drawing board for the construction of new schools in Gregory Town, Eleuthera and George Town, Exuma...
BSGC launches film to mark 9th anniversary
May 27, 2019
BSGC launches film to mark 9th anniversary
A hell of a journey, but one worth repeating...How do you compress nine years into 32 minutes? Bahamas Striping Group of Companies (BSGC) accomplished that very feat, premiering its documentary to a diverse yet intimate audience gathered at the company’s office on Abundant Life Road...
My mum...the Doctor; My son...the medical marketer
May 23, 2019
My mum...the Doctor; My son...the medical marketer
This Sunday when moms around the world are treated to over-the-top luxurious brunches or breakfast in bed prepared by hubby and little ones, one mother...
May 22, 2019
Sickle Cell Association Works to Creative Positive, Lasting Change
When a 26-year-old declared he would die in hospital it was difficult to believe. There was no gunshot wound, visible signs of trauma, or apparatus attached to him indicating he was under critical care. Twenty minutes later, after calling his mother, the father to a two-year-old took his last breath in Kayla Mortimer’s arms...
May 16, 2019
Sickle Cell Association Works to Create Positive, Lasting Change
When a 26-year-old declared he would die in hospital it was difficult to believe. There was no gunshot wound, visible signs of trauma, or apparatus attached to him indicating he was under critical care. Twenty minutes later, after calling his mother, the father to a two-year-old took his last breath in Kayla Mortimer’s arms.
“I could not sleep for a week after that,” recalled Mrs Mortime...
May 14, 2019
Bahamian entrepreneurs launch new high speed ferry excursions to Eleuthera
If you feel a sense of excitement building, it usually portends the beginning of something dramatic, something unexpected, or something new. Tourism Adventures Limited captures all three. "And it's only the beginning!" enthused young Bahamian entrepreneur, Tyrone Sawyer II, director and chief operation officer, speaking [...]
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New KMW Plaza Opens in Grand Bahama
May 10, 2019
New KMW Plaza Opens in Grand Bahama
Minister of State for Grand Bahama, Senator Kwasi Thompson says while doing business in Grand Bahama has its share of challenges, he’s moved by business owners who, despite the challenges, have continued to persevere...
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