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STOP letting social media negatively affect your life
By: Jhanae Winter
Social media can be a great place but with everything in life there are many disadvantages to being online all the time.
Social assistance programmes continue despite increased demands due to COVID-19
Employees across the Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development are continuing to fulfill the needs of their regular clients while working to address the influx of new requests for social assistance as a result of the presence of the COVID-19 Pandemic in The Bahamas...
Social Services sends additional relief teams into Grand Bahama and Abaco
Two additional teams of personnel from the Department of Social Services departed New Providence Sunday (September 29) for Marsh Harbour, Abaco, and Freeport, Grand Bahama, to assist with relief operations in the two areas of the Northern Bahamas most affected by CAT 5 Hurricane, Dorian...
The damaging use of social media
The damaging use of social media
S ocial media platforms and instant messaging applications have changed the way people interact. While the use of these technologies has its benefits, the instant gratification and dissemination power, thereof, is whetting the appetite of more and more people bent on causing harm or distress
Minister Campbell Details Government's Commitment for Social Protection Systems for Women and Girls
Minister Campbell Details Government's Commitment for Social Protection Systems for Women and Girls
The Government of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas has partnered with many of the country’s non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as it continues to build alliances for social protection systems...
Statement by The Minister of Social Service and Urban Development-Social Protection of Children
Statement by The Minister of Social Service and Urban Development-Social Protection of Children
The protection of girls and boys from all forms of violence, and the promotion of their wellbeing, are closely linked to the development of societies worldwide, The Bahamas included...
Minister of Social Services and Urban Development,, The Hon. Frankie Campbell
I am humbled at the opportunity to speak to mothers, fathers, women and girls, victims of rape, abuse and violence, and anyone else who may have been offended by a video recording of me that is in circulation...
Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources Update on Contaminated Eggs Following Alarm Created on Social Media
Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources Update on Contaminated Eggs Following Alarm Created on Social Media
The Department of Agriculture wishes to advise the public of the voluntary recall of eggs produced by Rose Acre Farms? Hyde Country Farm...
Festivalgoers take to social media in anger
Festivalgoers take to social media in anger
FESTIVAL-GOERS far and wide expressed disgust yesterday over the sudden date change for the third annual Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival, accusing organisers of sabotaging the fledgling event and negatively impacting the culture of the popular showpiece.
Gray goes on the defensive on social media
Gray goes on the defensive on social media
Amid a social media firestorm that erupted over a revelation by The Nassau Guardian last week that he authorized Bahamas Ambassador to China Paul Andy Gomez to pursue further a proposed $2.1 billion joint venture agri-fisheries initiative with the Chinese, Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources V. Alfred Gray on the weekend used social media in an attempt to calm the controversy.