BY RIGHT HONOURABLE PERRY G. CHRISTIE, M.P., PRIME MINISTER AND MINISTER OF FINANCE ON NEGOTIATED ARRANGEMENTS FOR REMOBLIZATION, COMPLETION AND OPENING OF THE BAHA MAR CABLE BEACH RESORT AUGUST 22ND, 2016 It gives me great pleasure to announce that earlier today, the Government of The Bahamas, and the Export-Import Bank of China, signed an agreement...
Monthly Archives: August 2016
Coral Harbour Base…22 AUG 16 (RBDF)—A total of 112 Haitian migrants are being detained on the island of Exuma after they were apprehended in Bahamian waters on Monday afternoon. After receiving information from local fishermen that a Haitian sloop was sighted in the area, patrol craft P-126 coxswained by Petty Officer Jaymes Darling went...
Alert: In a very exciting final track event at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil on Saturday evening, August 20th, Eleuthera’s Chris Brown at age 37, anchored the Bahamas to a Bronze medal behind the USA’s Gold and Jamaica’s Silver in the men’s 4x400m race. The Wemyss Bight native has a well cemented reputation as one of the...
NASSAU, Bahamas — The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism (BMOT) wishes to congratulate Shaunae Miller on her thrilling gold medal victory at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Millions of viewers were glued to their television sets and portable devices as Miller, 22, edged out her fellow competitors during the women’s 400-meter...
Bahamian track phenom, Shaunae Miller, dove over the finish line to hold on to a well deserved 400m gold ahead of American Allyson Felix in the 400m-final at the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, Brazil. Miller finished in 49.44s on Monday, Felix in 49.51s and Jamaica’s Shericka Jackson, the bronze medal winner in 49.85s. ...
Gomez: NHI “perhaps the most significant social initiative…” Universal Health Coverage (UHC) through the implementation of the National Health Insurance Plan is perhaps the most significant social initiative to be introduced in The Bahamas over the past 30 years, Minister of Health, the Hon. Dr. Michael Perry Gomez told Parliamentarians...
(Eleuthera, Bahamas) – A team of Royal Bahamas Police Officers in Central Eleuthera, executed a search warrant on a white single storey stone residence on Hester Street in Savannah Sound where each room in the building was individiually rented to seperate tenants. A search of a front northern bedroom occupied and rented by an adult male, revealed...
Coral Harbour Base, 8 August 16 (RBDF): Thirty-two Cuban migrants were apprehended in the southern Bahamas in Bahamian waters by members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force on Monday afternoon. While on routine patrol, Defence Force craft HMBS Leon Smith, commanded by Acting Lieutenant Commander Stephen Rolle, intercepted and boarded a makeshift motor...
Nassau, Bahamas – 9th August, 2016 – The Honourable Jerome K. Fitzgerald, Minister of Education, Science and Technology along with senior Ministry officials announced the 2016 Bahamas Junior Certificate (BJC) and Bahamas General Certificate of Secondary Education (BGCSE) results on Tuesday, August 10th, 2016. In releasing this year’s...