Pictured above; MP Minister Clay Sweeting (center) stands with local government officials and members of the Digital Transformation Unit during MyGateway training sessions. The Digital Transformation Unit (DTU), described as an ‘execution unit’ within the Ministry of Economic Affairs, was in Spanish Wells on Friday, April 19th and Saturday,...
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Wes Underwood with his mother, Natalie Underwood, his father, Yancy Underwood, and very proud sibling, during ‘Wes Day’ celebrations at SGPAAS. Wes Underwood, an eighth grader at the Samuel Guy Pinder All Age School (SGPAAS), on Sunday, March 19th, 2023, competing in the National spelling Bee, representing the island of Eleuthera,...
The Eleuthera Cancer Society’s Saturday morning, ‘Walk For the Cure’ was held on French Leave Beach on October 30th, 2021. October is marked and recognized by the Cancer Society of The Bahamas, Eleuthera Branch as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and although limited by the pandemic, the local support organization planned many creative...
(Spanish Wells, Eleuthera) The Road Traffic Department is requiring all non-Bahamians doing business with the Department to produce a current Real Property Tax Bill/Tax Certificate which reflects payment of all outstanding taxes. For example, non-Bahamian citizens seeking to renew their vehicle license should present a Tax certificate showing where...
Residents in Spanish Wells described continuous long lines at the Royal Bank of Canada, as customers wrapped up their banking business with the closing branch. The Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) branch in Spanish Wells was a crowded scene on Monday, May 29th, as scores of residents towed a long line to wrap up their banking services with RBC as the institution...
(Spanish Wells, Eleuthera, Bahamas) – On 14th June, 2013, the Spanish Wells Fishermen’s Festival Committee presented the winners of the t-shirt design competition with their prizes. The winning logo was submitted by Allie Pinder, a 6th grade student of The Spanish Wells All-Age School. Allie’s design, “Dis Crawfish on Fire,”...
The Cancer Society of Eleuthera in partnership with the One Eleuthera Foundation and Emory University has embarked on a vigorous campaign to improve Breast Cancer Education and Services of the Cancer. Society on the island of Eleuthera. The organisation would like to invite ALL ladies to a 45 minute presentation at the Spanish Wells Methodist...
Coming off its national win in 2012 Jr. Junkanoo on Bay Street, in Nassau, the island community of Spanish Wells is already in preparation mode for defending their title. According to a well placed source, the 2013 Jr. Junkanoo group is making plans to be bigger and bolder. A new set of instruments for the brass section are said to be already on order...
On Thursday July 19th, 2012 Dr. Nicholas Dawson Higgs was awarded his Ph.D. in Marine Biology from the University of Leeds in England. Nicholas is the son of Harvey and Janet Higgs of Spanish Wells, and he attended the Spanish Wells All Age School until the age of eleven. He then spent seven years at Culford School, a Methodist boarding school...