He didn’t belong here in the first place.   Nevertheless, eleven years ago, Ali Baba and fourteen other baby male alligators were flown in to Freeport by Parrot Jungle, then lessee of the Garden of the Groves.   In a misguided and ill-fated attempt to enhance the property’s attraction value by offering zoo-like exhibits of live animals, the alligators were brought in without much apparent thought for their well-being as they grew and matured.   After the hurricanes of 2004 devastated the Garden along with much of Grand Bahama, and then Wilma in 2005 added the finishing touches, Parrot Jungle completely abandoned their responsibility for the surviving animals in the summer of 2006.  

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Grand Bahama Island - This defence vessel was spotted off the south-west coast of Grand Bahama and the photo was taken from Taino Beach area. The vessel was visible during the Grand Bahama Regatta and many people wondering just what it was.

A Grand Bahama resident sent The Bahamas Weekly this photo and informed us that it is a Royal Bahamian Defence Force ship.  He told us that according to Wikipedia the RBDF only has two operational ships, and the P-61 is the HMBS Nassau. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMBS_Nassau , so unless Wikipedia is out of date, that is what it is...

Erik Christiansen, Danish developer and former owner of New Hope Holding Company Limited, has been unanimously appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors and Port Group Limited (PGL) the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) announced in a press release yesterday.

Christiansen was selected to the board earlier to represent the St. Georges family along with Felix Stubbs, general manager of IBM Bahamas, who represents the Hayward interest.

Christiansen started his own structural engineering firm in 1960 and expanded his firm to Holland, Iran, Oman and the Arabian Peninsula. By 1970 Chirstiansen became a member of the Executive Board of Pakhoed Holding, while in this position he was responsible for their real estate division which was the largest commercial real estate firm in the Netherlands...

Statement to Parliament by Blue Hills MP Sidney Collie.

MR. COLLIE: Mr. Speaker: During its previous term in office the Free National Movement took steps to satisfy a desire on the part of the people of our Family Islands for effective democratic local government. That hunger for elected local representation had remained unsatisfied though promised for decades.

My Ministry and I were responsible just recently for the conduct of local elections in accordance with legislation passed by The Bahamas Parliament.