The Bahamas Government Board members of the Bahamas Telecommunications Company paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister Davis at the Office of the Prime Minister to discuss various matters concerning BTC, on 23 February 2022.

The National Youth Leaders Certification Programme (YLCP) held a Meet and Greet-styled Orientation, on Tuesday, February 22, 2022, at the National Sports Authority.  Along with a full cadre of attendees, 18 Youth Leaders from the Family Islands joined in via Zoom.  Joining Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture Permanent Secretary Eugene Poitier in attendance, and giving remarks, were Under Secretary Montez Williams; Head of the Division of Youth Sandena Neely; YLCP Program Coordinator Youth Officer Lauren-Ashley Heastie...

Minister of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Family Island Affairs Hon. Clay Sweeting will bring remarks at the inaugural Food for Summit and Expo in Dubai from February 23-24.

Minister of Environment and Climate Change HE Miriam Al Mheiri of UAE, who also has responsibility for Agriculture, invited the Minister to speak and participate in a world leadership panel on food security...

Golden Gates World Outreach Ministries 52 years of spiritual teaching and social programmes did not go unnoticed by the Government of The Bahamas.

Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the Hon. Philip Davis announced the Appointment of Stan Smith as Ambassador to the United Nations; and Dr. Ellison Rahming as Ambassador to the Republic of Cuba, on February 22, 2022, during a ceremony held at Balmoral Club.  Among those present were Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Public Service, the Hon. Fred Mitchell; Minister of State for Public Service, the Hon. Pia Glover-Rolle; Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to the United States of America and Non-Resident Ambassador to Columbia and Malaysia, Wendall Jones...

Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, Hon. Mario Bowleg threw out a challenge to a church filled with boys and young men: “You could be a thermostat, or you could be a thermometer. A thermostat controls its environment and a thermometer adapts to its environment. So, the question is, which one you will be?”

The Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development’s three-day National Gender-Based Violence (GBV)/Discriminatory Law Review Forum will be etched in Bahamian history for a number of reasons, Minister of State in the Ministry of Social Services and Urban Development, the Hon. Lisa Rahming told participants attending the event’s Closing Ceremony (held Saturday, February 19).

Dubai, United Arab Emirates: Minister of Agriculture, Marine Resources and Family Island Affairs, the Hon. Clay Sweeting, participated in the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate’s (AIM) first ministerial meeting held during the World Expo 2020 on February 22.

Minister of State in the Office of the Prime Minister, the Hon. Myles K. LaRoda, recently held discussions with United Nations Resident Coordinator for The Bahamas, Dr. Garry Conille, as part of the Government of the Bahamas’ “determined efforts” to strengthen local, regional and global partnerships against the backdrop of rising sea levels, rising temperatures and more frequent and more severe hurricanes linked to climate change...

The Government and people of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas extend congratulations to the Government and people of Saint Lucia as they celebrate forty-three (43) years of Independence.

The Airport Airline and Allied Workers Union (AAAWU) met with Nassau Flight Services Board to discuss matters of mutual interest in the aviation industry.The meeting was held at NFS Conference, Lynden Pindling International Airport on Monday,  February 21, 2022.  Attending the meeting seated left to right: Susan Palmer, General Secretary; Gladstone Adderley, President; Obie Roberts, Chairman, Nassau Flight. Services; Lennox Coleby, Deputy Chairman, Nassau Flight Services; and Altonnia Munroe, VP of (AAAWU)...

See enclosed remarks from Minister Sweeting's address today at the Food for Future Summit at the World Expo 2020 in Dubai:

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I am honored to stand here today as the Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources in The Bahamas. We are a small island nation made up of 700 islands and cays; our population is around 400,000 and yet we share in the global crisis of food security...

The Ministry of Works & Utilities (MOWU) is aware of a video circulating on social media concerning an illegal wooden structure on Junkanoo Beach, at the rear of the Margaritaville Beach Resort property. 

University of The Bahamas is preparing to honour a cadre of alumni as examples of the excellence that defines graduates of the institutions who are making substantive contributions to the public and private sector, leading innovation and helping to steer transformation at the community level.

The Government of The Bahamas wishes to mark this day, on what would have been the 95th birthday of Sir Sidney Poitier, the Bahamian actor, producer, diplomat, writer.  He passed away on 6 January 2022.

During his announcement of Wendall Jones as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas to the United States of America and Non-Resident Ambassador to Columbia and Malaysia, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance the Hon. Philip Davis noted, on February 17, 2022, that, in his Government’s “Blueprint for Change,” it committed itself broadly to facilitating the seamless movement of Bahamians across international borders, which is a principal objective of Foreign Affairs....

The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI), the Honorable Crenston C. Buffonge, Minister of Agriculture, Lands, Housing and the Environment, Montserrat is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Ansari Hosein as the Executive Director, CARDI with effect from 01 March 2022. 

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has sent a note of condolences to the Government of Belize on the passing of the country’s second prime minister the Rt. Honourable Sir Manuel Esquivel who passed away on 10 February 2022. The message reads as follows:

Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) Senior Lieutenant Bertram Bowleg, former International Ship and Port Facility Security Heritage Coordinator, at a press conference, February 16, 2022 at the Ministry of National Security announced plans to stage a national exercise in March, which will test security at ports in the country.  Senior Lieutenant Bowleg said ports in Inagua, Eleuthera, Abaco, Bimini, Grand Bahama and New Providence will be used as targets to test man power, emergency preparation and recovery skills of personnel such as police officers...

See enclosed remarks by Prime Minister and MInister of Finance the Hon. Philip Davis on the BAMSI Bill, 2022 in the House of Assembly on February 16, 2022:

Madam Speaker,