On February 22nd 2019, The Department of Immigration resumed all repatriation activities to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti with a total of (112) Haitian nationals escorted by a team of joint Law Enforcement Officers on board a Bahamasair chartered flight. This repatriation convoy left the Carmichael Road Detention Center at 6:30AM en route to Lynden Pindling...
Monthly Archives: February 2019
. (Eleuthera, Bahamas) FREE Clinics to be held for both Men and Women on Saturday, February 23rd from 9am to 4pm in Hatchet Bay, Rock Sound and Governor’s Harbour (with Pap Smear and Breast Examinations for Women, and PSA Blood Testing and Digital Examinations for Men). The FREE Clinics are sponsored by the Cancer Society of the Bahamas, Eleuthera...
A grey 2007 Nissan Note collided into a tree off the eastern edge of the Queen’s highway near the Rock Sound airport on Friday morning, February 22nd, 2019. (Eleuthera, Bahamas) – Early on Friday morning, February 22nd, 2019, sometime around 5:00am, officers at the Rock Sound Police Station received reports of a traffic accident on Queen’s...
The Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas signed a $12 million bilateral agreement with the Government of the People’s Republic of China on Thursday, February 21, 2019 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Pictured: Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Hon. Darren Henfield (right) and the Chinese Ambassador to The Bahamas, His Excellency Huang...
(Nassau, The Bahamas) The Bahamas Office of the Prime Minister released a statement earlier this week in response to the Bahamas being included on a draft list of ‘High Risk Third Countries’ by the European Commission’s Justice and Consumers Unit, which deems the country as a threat to their financial system due to what it considers...
Coral Harbour Base, 18 FEB. ‘19 (RBDF): The Royal Bahamas Defence Force wishes to advise the general public that a video circulating on social media with an RBDF patrol craft stopping a Haitian sloop is not a current video. That particular video showing numerous Haitian nationals being transferred to the RBDF patrol craft P-129 occurred a few years...
The Government of The Bahamas has embarked on transforming the public education system with full digitization of schools, Minister of Education the Hon. Jeffrey Lloyd (fourth left) announced, February 13, 2019. The ceremony marked the final of four contract signings to accomplish the goal. (BIS Photo/Raymond A. Bethel, Sr.) (Nassau, The Bahamas) The...
NASSAU, The Bahamas – Prime Minister, the Most Hon. Dr. Hubert Minnis said that the new Boeing 737-790NG acquired by Bahamasair will play an important role in the expansion of the national flag carrier’s international service. He delivered the keynote address at the Commissioning Ceremony of Bahamasair’s latest aircraft, held Thursday,...
Sip & Sample: Founding partner and designer, Jay-Jay Percentie showcasing unique elements of the Bryland line. (Harbour Island, Eleuthera, The Bahamas) Shoppers were invited to sip, sample and meet the designers of the Bryland ‘True Island Luxury’ line of menswear on the cusp of 2019, at Calico Trading Co. located at Valentines Marina...
Participants of the Innovation Competition happily display their ideas for future businesses flanked by the competition judges. From L-R: Competition judge Kenwood Cartwright, students Randall Tynes, Peaches Sweeting, Kendy Thompson, Drexal Butler, Edrick Munroe, Jasmine Brown, Dariana Michel, Breandra Whylly, and competition judge Errol McPhee. (Eleuthera,...