Terneille ‘TaDa’ Burrows is also president of ‘Rise Bahamas’. Terneille Burrows – music executive, performing artist, songwriter, producer, humanitarian and the list continues – professionally known as ‘TaDa’...
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(Eleuthera, Bahamas) – As we have discussed in past editions of Conservation Corner, queen conch are an incredibly valuable resource to the people of The Bahamas. Research throughout the Caribbean, and in other family islands, has shown that conch numbers keep decreasing. Research done by the Sustainable Fisheries team at the Cape Eleuthera Institute...
Sea Turtle Life Cycle: Sea turtles are long-lived marine reptiles that spend most of their lives at sea. They begin their lives as hatchlings just a few inches long, emerging from nests buried in sandy beaches. As they emerge they head for the ocean and spend several years being transported by the ocean’s current before settling back into coastal...
(Eleuthera, Bahamas) – Seahorses are cool and visiting scientist Dr. Heather D. Mason Jones answers questions about a local seahorse population in the edited-for-length Q and A below. But first, a few fun facts! The male carries the babies. Yeah, he inflates a kangaroo-like pouch and the female drops her eggs in there. The Bahamas has the world’s...
A remarkable American voice has been stilled, but the entire world is poorer for it. Many of us – including me – never met Maya Angelou, yet her writing and especially her poetry had a profound effect upon us. Maya Angelou put into prose and poetry the emotions felt by ordinary people about events that touched us all. In doing...