Saturday 30 September, 2023
Edition: English (US)
Eleuthera News

Features

Terneille 'TaDa' Burrows is also president of 'Rise Bahamas'.

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’...

2301TE_Page_01_Image_0006

Harbour Island All Stars junkanoo group’s choreographed dancers arrayed in beautiful smiles. Junkanoo roared back to life in Eleuthera during the 2022 holiday season, beginning with the annual Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture’s...

PHOTO-2022-01-08-19-37-14_2 feature

Joshua Higgins, in action, competing at the ISAF Junior Worlds in Oman in December 2021. 18 year-old Joshua Higgins of Harbour has been sailing since he was seven years-old when he started out in the Optimist dinghy, and it was said that he...

DSC_7404b-HI-RES-Sanders-Commentary-head-shot-feature

Sir Ronald Sanders, Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American States. By Sir Ronald Sanders (The writer is Antigua and Barbuda’s Ambassador to the United States and the Organization of American...

Tamia Knowles with trophy-feature

Miss Tamia Knowles of Emma E. Cooper Primary School. Tamia Knowles of Palmetto Point, Eleuthera was selected as the nominee for the Emma Cooper Primary School in the 2021 Bahamas Primary School Student of the Year Awards Program, and during...

ALVIN-SMITH

Mr. Alvin A. Smith The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced several new appointments in November 2017. Included was Mr. Alvin Smith, former Educator, Member of Parliament for North Eleuthera and Speaker of The House of Assembly, who has been...

(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...