Nassau, Bahamas - Second place winners of the first U. S. Embassy sponsored Alternative Energy Competition, C.R. Walker High School, visited the Island School, Cape Eleuthera on Friday, February 26.  The group of five students was accompanied by their teachers, Ms. Turnquest and Mr. Graus and U.S. Embassy Commercial Specialist Anne Marie Bain. 

The visit provided an overview of the Island School’s objectives to promote energy conservation and environmental protection.  The students experienced The Island Schools’ solar heating and water conservation methods and saw first-hand how the School recycles everyday items in order to sustain itself.  The students engaged in a practical workshop to determine the management, application and use of renewable resources...

Although alternative arrangements are been made to accommodate inbound and outbound flights at the North Eleuthera Airport same will seriously inconvenience local and tourist travelers.

Eleuthera, Bahamas - Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI) hosted The Hon. T. Brent Symonette, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs; The Hon. Alvin Smith, Speaker of the House of Assembly; The Hon. Desmond Bannister, Minister of Education; and Christine Todd Whitman, former governor of New Jersey and former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency this weekend at its 2010 conference on small island sustainability.  Each government official took time to share thoughts on how Eleuthera can become a model for sustainable development, both in The Bahamas and throughout the world.

During her keynote address, Governor Whitman recognized the challenges The Bahamas faces as it works toward a sustainable future...

The Swiss-Bahamas Business Association, is a non-profit started by a leading group of Swiss and Bahamian professionals and membership is available to individuals or corporations. 

The Association’s mission statement states that the Swiss Bahamas Business Association seeks to further trade and commerce between Switzerland and The Bahamas through a collaboration in the areas of trade, tourism, industry and financial services by way of mutual exchanges of information, networking possibilities and chamber functions...

The Bahamas has a long history of religion.  It’s founding church, The Church of England, better known as the Anglican Church, and its multiple Christian denominations gives this nation reason to boast of its Christian heritage, and Christian practices has maintained the way of life that the world envied.  Vacationers world-wide seek these known to be peaceful shores, for a paradise experience including fun, safety, and cleanliness.

Proud Bahamians boasted for many years of the status of a “Christian Nation.”

Prime Minister, The Honourable Hubert A. Ingraham, speaks volumes in the spirit, and throughout our country; that we give God the authority to help us bring order, peace, and prosperity back to this nation.”   The National Day of Prayer and Fasting is slated for Wednesday February, 10, 2010, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m...  

Nassau, Bahamas (The Tribune) - Elaborate plans for a new Bahamian television channel were revealed yesterday.

Lincoln Bain, Chet Pratt, Utah Taylor and Erin Ferguson have promised that VTV will take the Bahamas by storm.

Guardian Business Editor : Cable Bahamas has announced that it is now a 100-percent Bahamian owned company.

As a result of approval received from the Bahamian government, the company has repurchased all of the shares previously held by Columbus Communications Ltd. (CCL).

Specifically, through a share purchase agreement, Cable Bahamas acquired 5,954,600 ordinary shares of its stock held by CCL for $80 million.

The transaction which was first announced in the summer of 2009 was funded through a combination of the company's $95 million senior credit facility and the issuance of $40 million in new preferred shares...

“The advent of the Bahamas Automated Clearing House will affect every single person who deposits money to a chequing account, writes a cheque or wishes to pay a bill online,” said Brian Smith, BACH Business Manager. “By speeding up the time it takes for deposits to clear, it will provide a boost to businesses, particularly those that depend for much of their revenue on cheques from customers. Individuals will benefit as well because they will have access to the B$ cheques they deposit on Monday as early as Tuesday. No longer will anyone – businesses, institutions or individuals -- have to wait for up to five days to use the money that is rightfully theirs.”

ABACO, Bahamas - Abaco Cares responds to BEC Press Release of 12-30-09

TOP 10 Reasons ABACO CARES Continues to oppose the Wilson City Bunker C Plan:

Straight from the horse’s mouth:  

1. “The corporation reiterates the fact that the Wilson City Site in Abaco was chosen after careful and extensive review”  

- Expansion of the Marsh Harbour plant was not plausible because subdivisions were built next to the plant while it was in operation. Snake Cay was eliminated due to environmental sensitivity and to allow for a development. However, Wilson City is just as ecologically important, if not more important, than Snake Cay...

Nassau, Bahamas - A delegation from the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Management Agency, CDEMA, will visit Haiti on Friday (January 15, 2010) to assess the destruction caused by the earthquake, which struck that island nation on Tuesday.  

Once that is done, CDEMA will advise its members, one being The Bahamas, as how best to assist in the massive relief effort.  

Captain Stephen Russell, director of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said Thursday that a request has been made for NEMA to send three representatives on a rotation basis, to Haiti as part of the regional relief effort.  

Meanwhile members of the Bahamian public are being advised to deposit funds into an account opened by members of the Clearing Banks Association, in aid of the Haiti relief effort. ..

Search Begins for New Miss Bahamas to Compete in World’s Most Prestigious Pageants

Nassau, Bahamas - On Thursday 7^th January 2010 at approximately 11:45am an SAAB 340 aircraft, registration C6-SBE being owned by SkyBahamas Airline had its landing gear collapsed while the aircraft was parked on the gate at Apron 5 at the Lynden Pindling International Airport. .

Only the captain and a flight attendant were on board the aircraft at the time. No one was injured during the occurrence, however the aircraft was damaged...

Nassau, Bahamas - Young talented, brilliant and beautiful are some of the attributes that best encapsulates Dr. Chinyere Carey-Bullard, Medical Director & Owner of Advanced Family Medicine Center and Medispa on Shirley Street, a company she started with her life’s savings some five years ago with the help of her family. And just as she was driven then, Dr. Carey-Bullard is more determined than ever to provide all persons walking into her medical center with the best medical service.