New BTVI campus facility located at the top of the hill, adjacent to the current Green Castle Primary School. The Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI), celebrated the official opening of its newest campus in Green Castle, South Eleuthera on Thursday, April 18th, 2024, with a ceremony held on the grounds of the facility, touting the new...
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Tim Hauber in the Oasis Grow House at OEF/CTI. (By Tim Hauber, One Eleuthera Foundation/Center For Training and Innovation) In our day and age, we look around the world and see so many environmental problems, many of which seem unsolvable. It is rare to find a solution as simple and as impactful as the practice of Regenerative Agriculture. The practice...
Preston H. Albury High Principal Kenneth Roberts, at the kickoff of the Micro Garden and School Farming Project on October 23rd, 2023. On Monday morning, October 23rd, 2023, representatives from Disney Cruise Line (DCL), the Agricultural Development Organization (ADO) – [a non-profit launched early in 2022, focused on building up The Bahamas’...
Sophia Sturrup-Smith, English Language, Literature and Performing Arts teacher at Central Eleuthera High School is shown with her young proteges – all of whom are either members of the Performing Arts club at the school, or part of a Performing Arts class. The Cancer Society’s Wellness Center in Palmetto Point on Friday evening September...
Students from high schools in Eleuthera attend an information forum with officials from New Providence about the parliamentary electoral process. At 12 noon on Thursday, September 28th, the Department of Local Government hosted a special proclamation ceremony, for the announcement of the date set for upcoming elections of junior local government councils...
Educators from all across Eleuthera gathered at the Worker’s House complex for a Professional Development Conclave. The Department of Education hosted the Eleuthera District’s Teachers Conclave, focused on professional development, at the Worker’s House ballroom facility in Governor’s Harbour, Central Eleuthera on Thursday, August...
Students at the Central Eleuthera High School on the first day of classes for the 2023-2024 school year. The new 2023-2024 school year, which opened for students on Monday, August 28th, saw a number of shifts and changes in leadership at several of the schools within the Eleuthera District, confirmed Mr. Michael Culmer, District Superintendent for Education...
Harbour island All Age School, Valedictorian, Andrea Seddembe. (Photo by Donna Whitfield Decosta) Senior High School graduation ceremonies took place across Eleuthera during the final half of June, completing a school year that was the first complete year with students back in the classrooms – full-time, face-to-face with their teachers, from...
Eldecia (center) pictured with Island School Founders Chris and Pam Maxey, CEO/Head of School Ben Dougherty and spouse Laura. Eldecia Thompson of Green Castle, and Deep Creek Middle School (DCMS) Class of 2003 graduate, has been named the 2023 Founders Alumni Award recipient for The Island School on Cape Eleuthera. Eldecia was part of the first...
2022 Eleuthera District Spelling Bee Champion, Sohan Bryan, of Central Eleuthera High School, hands the winning trophy over to new 2023 Eleuthera District Spelling Bee Champion, Wes Underwood of Samuel Guy Pinder All Age School (standing center). They are accompanied by Mrs. Melinda Wallace with the Constituency Office. Excitement teemed in the air...