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Bahamas Information Services Updates
National Job Program Employees told to work hard - Feb 9, 2010 - 8:40:31 AM
Nassau, Bahamas - Road
Traffic Controller Philip Turner urged employees to move towards one
objective in building the Road Traffic Department.
“If we build Road Traffic we are building The Bahamas and making a
better transportation system,” Mr Turner said. “If we have good and
reliable information then we can make better, strategic decisions. Let
us work hard to build this organization.”
Mr Turner gave an overview of the Road Traffic Department to 19
employees hired to work for six months on various projects under the
National Job Program recently introduced by the Government on February
5. The new hires have been assigned to assist with automating the
databases of the Road Traffic Department’s vehicle and driver’s
licenses...
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Bahamas Information Services Updates
Haitian Immigrants to Return to Haiti - Feb 9, 2010 - 8:14:50 AM
Nassau, Bahamas - The
Ministry of National Security has confirmed that on Saturday, 6 February
2010, 78 Haitian migrants were intercepted in waters near the Exuma
chain when the sloop in which they were sailing was sighted by the Royal
Bahamas Defence Force on a routine patrol.
Defence
Force vessel HMBS P-45 spotted the 30-foot Haitian sailing sloop approximately
13 nautical miles southwest of Barreterre, Exuma. The Haitian
migrants, 64 males and 14 females, were transferred from their unseaworthy
vessel and taken aboard Defence Force craft P-45 and P-49.
The
migrants, all of whom appeared to be in fair health, have been transferred
to HMBS Bahamas. The United States Coast Guard is assisting the Royal
Bahamas Defence Force in returning the migrants to Haiti...
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Supermodel of the Bahamas to Open Call in Eleuthera - February 27th - Feb 8, 2010 - 10:42:18 PM
Nassau, Bahamas -
Supermodel of the Bahamas
invites residents of Eleuthera to an
Open Call on Saturday,
February 27th from 12 noon until 5pm at the
Quality Inn Cigatoo in Governor's Harbour.
Calls
for Grand Bahama and Abaco have already been completed.
A final call date
for
Nassau
is set for
February 13th
at
Bally Total Fitness
from 1pm to 4pm.
In the year 2010 the organization
has expanded its event with a
Children’s Category, looking to find children ranging in ages from
3 years through to 13 years of age and from
14
through 21 years of age...
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Ministry of Tourism Updates
Bahamas International Maritime Conference and Trade Show to Open February 9th - Feb 8, 2010 - 5:08:14 PM
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - The
Bahamas International Maritime Conference and Trade Show (BIMCATS) 2010
results from collaboration of the Ministry of The Environment and
Bahamas Maritime Authority with public and private sector partners.
The 2010 Conference will be held at Our Lucaya Beach and Golf Resort from
February 9th to the 12th.
Under the theme ‘The Maritime Sector and the Environment’
...
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International
Bahamas to return migrants to quake-ravaged Haiti - Feb 8, 2010 - 2:34:41 PM
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – (AP) More than five dozen Haitian migrants detained as they sailed north through the
Bahamas will be returned directly to the earthquake-ravaged country, the Bahamian prime minister said Monday.
Two Royal Bahamas Defense Force vessels intercepted a boat carrying the 62
Haitian on Saturday, Prime Minister
Huber Ingraham said.
While
the Bahamas has made it easier for Haitian immigrants already in the
country to stay since the earthquake, Ingraham said the government will
not change its policy toward undocumented migrants found at sea.
"We will do all we can to assist
Haiti except we cannot absorb Haiti's population in the Bahamas," Ingraham told The Associated Press...
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Bahamas Information Services Updates
Foreign Direct Investments Showing Positive Signs, says PM - Feb 8, 2010 - 1:18:47 PM
Nassau, The Bahamas - Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert A.
Ingraham said on Thursday, February 5, that foreign direct investments in The
Bahamas are showing positive signs.
He also said that several of the tourism related
developments, which stalled because of the global recession and international
financial crisis are preparing to move forward this year.
“It is expected that as the US
economy begins to grow there will be improvement in the second-home market.
Also, investments in other segments of our economy are showing positive signs,”
the Prime Minister said in his New Year’s Address to the Nation...
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National Day of Prayer and Fasting - February 10th - Feb 8, 2010 - 12:38:19 PM
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...
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Ministry of Tourism Updates
Bahamas Wins Big at HSMAI Adrian Awards - Feb 8, 2010 - 12:01:57 PM
NASSAU, The Bahamas – The Hospitality Sales &
Marketing Association International (HSMAI) honored The Islands of The
Bahamas with two of the coveted Adrian Awards for web marketing
excellence for their winning entries in the 53rd annual Adrian Awards
Competition. The Bahamas accepted these awards at last night’s 20th
annual black-tie awards gala held at the Marriott Marquis in New York,
NY. The HSMAI Adrian Awards Competition is the largest and most
prestigious travel marketing competition globally. There were nearly
1,100 entries from around the world judged by top executives from all
sectors of the industry.
The Bahamas were rewarded with the competition’s highest honor, a
Platinum Adrian Award, given to only 20 entries, for the innovative web
marketing campaign, “Bahama Fridays.” A video parody of a local news
segment entitled “Bahama Fridays” was produced and brought the fun of
the islands into the homes and offices of U.S. consumers. With the
video as inspiration, a consumer ambush event was created in New York
using 100 “commuters” in bikinis...
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Adopt a Coral Reef in The Bahamas! - Feb 8, 2010 - 10:38:58 AM
Coral reefs are the foundation that sustains all life in the
Caribbean and nowhere is this more apparent than on the reefs and in
the communities of The Bahamas.
You can help protect the world’s most beautiful and diverse habitats when you
Adopt a Coral Reef today.
With its many uninhabited islands and the clearest water in the
world, The Bahamas harbors key populations of the Caribbean’s most
iconic marine species, from Nassau grouper to bottle-nosed dolphins,
bonefish to sea turtles. Tourists, drawn by the climate and the natural
beauty of the Caribbean, account for nearly half of the region’s entire
income and coral reefs provide more than $4 billion a year from
fisheries, scuba-diving, tourism and shoreline protection...
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International
China Heralds Bust of Major Hacker Ring - Feb 8, 2010 - 10:16:29 AM
SHANGHAI—China heralded a major bust of computer hackers to
underscore its pledge to help enhance global online security, with
state media saying officials had shut what they called the country's
largest distributor of tools used in malicious Internet attacks.
Three people were arrested on suspicion of making hacking tools
available online, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on Monday.
Their business, known as Black Hawk Safety Net, operated through the
now-shuttered Web site 3800cc.com and generated around $1 million in
income from its over 12,000 subscribers, the report said.
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International
(VIDEO) Cold Took Heavy Toll On Florida Wildlife - Feb 8, 2010 - 9:52:30 AM
(Associated Press) Despite four decades of slogging through Everglades marshes and
mangroves, wildlife ecologist Frank Mazzotti had never experienced
anything like the aftermath of frigid January. The confirmed casualty
count so far:
• At least 70 dead crocodiles.
• More than 60 manatee carcasses.
• A bright-side observance of multiple frozen-stiff Burmese pythons, the scourge of the Everglades.
And also, perhaps the biggest fish kill in modern Florida history...
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Bahamas Information Services Updates
Support for Bahamian artisans - Feb 7, 2010 - 7:28:37 PM
Eleuthera, The Bahamas -
Bahamian artisans
are “on the cusp of a revolution in the handicraft industry,” Agriculture and
Marine Resources Minister Lawrence S Larry Cartwright declare.
“More people are
being trained, organized and prepared to be symbols of our creativity and
genius,” he said.
Mr Cartwright was
speaking during graduation ceremony for 150 Eleutherans from Princess Cay to Harbour Island who took the Bahamas Agricultural
and Industrial Corporation’s courses in shell, coconut, straw and sisal craft,
last Friday.
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Bahamas Information Services Updates
Temporary Employees admonished to be Agents of Change - Feb 7, 2010 - 6:33:57 PM
Nassau, Bahamas -
Gordon Major, Acting Director in the Ministry of Public Works and Transport,
admonished persons employed in the Government’s Temporary Job Program to be
agents of change.
“You will be our
public face in the next six months,” said Mr Major. “Make sure that each
encounter you have is positive no matter how much you may be provoked to do
otherwise. I know it is not always easy but exert your best effort.”
Mr Major made these
remarks as he welcomed some 150 people employed in the Ministry’s program to an
orientation program on February 3...
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Bahamas Information Services Updates
Bahamas Maintains Share of Tourist Market - Feb 7, 2010 - 5:52:14 PM
NASSAU, The Bahamas -- The Bahamas
maintained its share of the tourist market, bringing in a record 3.5 million
cruise visitors and increasing airlift by almost 400,000 seats in 2009, Prime
Minister the Rt. Hon. Hubert A. Ingraham said on Thursday, February 4, 2010.
The Prime Minister said in his New Year’s
Address to the Nation that the Government is focused on making the islands of
The Bahamas more accessible, affordable and convenient.
“We have been able to maintain our market
share, maintain our room rates and grow certain segments of our business,”
Prime Minister Ingraham said...
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International
(VIDEO) Frankie Jonas becomes Ambassador of new Atlantis Kids Adventure - Feb 7, 2010 - 2:07:58 PM
Paradise Island,
Bahamas - Ten year old Frankie Jonas, the youngest brother to the
famous American singing trio, The Jonas Brothers, recently became the
Ambassador of the new Atlantis Kids Adventure in The Bahamas.
Atlantis
held an official opening on January 23rd involving LEGO, who have
partnered with Atlantis with upcoming LEGO Camps to open in 2010, and
who have also produced a special Atlantis LEGO series.
Frankie
helped welcome forty visiting travel writers, along with their children
before revealing the large Lego diver, L.A.N.S.E. in the tanks at the
Hall of Water in the Royal Towers.
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International
U.S. Embassy's Martin Luther King Jr. Awards Ceremony - Feb 6, 2010 - 1:11:14 AM
Nassau, Bahamas - United States and Bahamian
government officials together with principals, teachers, students, and
family members attended the U.S. Embassy’s fourth annual Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., essay competition awards ceremony on Friday, February
5. The ceremony was held at the British Colonial Hilton Hotel.
A total of 65 essays were received from fourteen public and private
schools in New Providence and the Family Islands.
Students were asked to use
a quote from Dr. King about personal integrity and responsibility to
answer one of the following questions: “How can you or how have you
demonstrated personal integrity and responsibility to improve conditions
in your community?” or “Choose an important figure in your life
who best exemplifies Dr. King’s quote and explain how that individual
has demonstrated personal integrity and responsibility...”
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Ministry of Tourism Updates
Bahamas Day at Banyan - Feb 5, 2010 - 6:27:48 PM
Fort Lauderdale, FL - In its ongoing
efforts to promote The Islands of The Bahamas as the premiere destination
for general aviation/private pilots, The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism
and Aviation will be the chief sponsor of a
Bahamas Day event at a Fixed
Based Operation (FBO) in Fort Lauderdale, Florida,
February 20, 2010.
The First Annual Bahamas Day, is
being hosted by Banyan Air Service, located at Fort Lauderdale Executive
Airport. Banyan was named earlier this year as one of the Bahamas
Ministry of Tourism’s Aviation Division (BMOTA’s) Bahamas Preferred
Gateways. Going forward, the Bahamas Day will be hosted by a different
Bahamas Preferred Gateway each year...
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Bahamas Information Services Updates
Closure of Nassau Grouper Fishing throughout The Bahamas/ Closure of Fishing at High Cay, Central Andros - Feb 5, 2010 - 3:13:19 PM
The Bahamas Department of Marine Resources wishes to advise
the general- public that the waters surrounding High
Cay,
off the coast
of Central Andros will be designated as a "Protected Area" during the
period
1
st
January, 2010 to 28th
February, 2010. During this period all
forms of fishing will be prohibited in the area
around
High
cay
as
specified
below.
The designated "Protected Area" is bounded
in the North
by
latitude 24
°
40'N, in the South
by
24
°
37.8'N, in the East
by
longitude 77
°
40.8W, and in the West
by
longitude 77
°
44'W, and encompassing an area of
approximately seven (7) square miles...
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Bahamas Information Services Updates
Temporary Employees urged to be Professionals - Feb 5, 2010 - 11:27:32 AM
Nassau, Bahamas
- Public Works and Transport Minister the Hon Neko C
Grant urged the 150 employees hired under the Ministry’s Temporary Job
Employment Program to represent the Ministry in a “professional” manner.
“All of you will
be provided an identification card that will clearly indicate that you are a
part of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport’s Temporary Employment
Program,” Mr Grant said.
“I wish to remind
you that when you go out into the communities to participate in the various
projects you represent the Ministry, and as such it is expected that you will
conduct yourself in a professional manner and provide an honest day’s work for
an honest day’s pay...
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International
Family Publishes Memoirs of First Bahamas Envoy to the White House - Feb 5, 2010 - 9:15:43 AM
Miami, Florida -- An autobiography of the late Livingstone B. Johnson,
first Bahamas Ambassador to the United States and to the United Nations
will be released
February 27 at a book launching ceremony to be held at
the
British Colonial Hilton, downtown Nassau. According to daughters
Anita Johnson-Patty and Deanne Johnson-Anderson, “this is long overdue
and we are ecstatic that we are finally able to fulfill our father’s
dream.”
A former Member of The Bahamas Senate, Ambassador Johnson C.B.E.,
D.C.L., died in Nassau, Bahamas March 5, 2009 at the age of 85. A
State recognized funeral service was held March 20 at Christ Church
Cathedral, George Street in Nassau. The Ambassador is widowed by
Charmaine Culmer Johnson, his wife of forty nine years...
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