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Toastmasters Club 7178 Hosts Youth Leadership Program with Ranfurly Home
Healing Communicators Toastmasters Club 7178 continues to make its mark in leadership and community outreach by hosting its Youth Leadership Program at the Ranfurly Home for Children. Fourteen students from ages 14 to 17 completed an eight-week course designed to enhance their public speaking and leadership skills.
FNM questions the closure of PharmaChem
FNM questions the closure of PharmaChem
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Opposition Free National Movement (FNM) Leader Michael Pintard, during a press conference held at the party's headquarters on Monday, posed a number of questions to the Davis-Cooper administration surrounding the sudden closure of PharmaChem Technologies on Grand Bahama. PharmaChem Technologies closed its doors for business on January 12, 2024, just days after [...]
SHUT DOWN: 100 Jobs in Freeport hang in limbo as Pharmachem announces closure
FREEPORT, GRAND BAHAMA — Dozens of Grand Bahamians' jobs will reportedly be made redundant as of January 12, 2024, when Pharmachem Technologies, an industrial company on Grand Bahama Island, shuts down. Labour Director Howard Thompson told Eyewitness News that the department was notified of the layoffs. Government officials also revealed that the Ministry of Grand [...]
Bahamas National Trust and Elizabeth Harbour Conservation Partnership Announce New Mooring Installations in Exuma
Bahamas National Trust and Elizabeth Harbour Conservation Partnership Announce New Mooring Installations in Exuma
In a joint initiative between The Bahamas National Trust (BNT) and The Elizabeth Harbour Conservation Partnership (EHCP), new state-of-the-art mooring systems are being installed in Elizabeth Harbour and the Moriah Harbour Cay National Park (MHCNP). This latest initiative is part of both organisations' broader commitments to preserving the unique and fragile marine environments of Great and Little...
National Women's Week Schedule
National Women's Week Schedule
Saturday, 25th November 2023 - Mothers Arise Prayer & Praise Service
Chapel on the Hill @ 4:00 PM
Tonique Williams-Darling Highway
(Streaming LIVE under the G.W. Pavilion)
Long Island Business Outlook set for November 16
Long Island Business Outlook set for November 16
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The 9th Annual Long Island Business Outlook is scheduled for Thursday, November 16, at the Clarence Town Community Centre. The hybrid event will be hosted both in person and online via Zoom under the theme "Forward, Upward, Onward, Together," discussing "a Bold Vision for Long Island". Delivering the keynote address will be [...]
Exuma Business Outlook set for October 19
Exuma Business Outlook set for October 19
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — The 17th Exuma Business Outlook (EBO) is set for Thursday, 19 October 2023 as a hybrid event, on location at Sandals Emerald Bay in Georgetown, Great Exuma, and online via Zoom under the theme "Forward, Upward, Onward, Together." Delivering the keynote will be the Honourable I. Chester Cooper, Deputy Prime Minister of [...]
Book details efforts of Securities Commission chief as FTX crumbled
In November 2022, as the world watched while FTX plummeted into utter collapse, Christina Rolle, executive director of the Securities Commission of The Bahamas, persuaded Bahamian police not to arrest Sam Bankman-Fried, according to Michael Lewis' newly released biography on the cryptocurrency exchange's now-disgraced founder. Instead, Rolle argued for police to confiscate the passports of ...
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Draft gender policy expected next month
Draft gender policy expected next month
The government expects to have a draft gender policy in hand for review and further consultations next month, Minister of Social Services Obie Wilchcombe said yesterday, noting that The Bahamas fully intends to meet its commitment under various international treaties to ensure equality of the sexes. "We provided a Universal Periodic Review last year (to the ...
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New BPL minister informed power bills should begin to abate
The new minister in charge of Bahamas Power and Light (BPL), Jobeth Coleby-Davis, told the media on Friday that BPL's management has informed her that power bills should begin to come down as the company reaches the end of its glide path for fuel cost recovery, which has frustrated Bahamians with high power bills since the ...
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