Wemyss Bight Homecoming 2023 saw large crowds of patrons from South Eleuthera flocking to the site to enjoy the entertainment and socialize until the late evening during the Heroes Day holiday weekend. With refurbishments to the homecoming site in Wemyss Bight done, as a result of the homecoming committee’s efforts in 2022, the location...
Gallery
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...
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 Christmas Day turned-Boxing Day Senior Junkanoo parade competition, hosted along the center of the main thoroughfare...
Above: DPM Chester Cooper with his family, touring facilities at the Deep Creek Middle School. On Friday, May 6th, 2022, Deputy Prime Minister, Chester Cooper, traveled with his family to South Eleuthera, where he visited The Island School at Cape Eleuthera, and received a full tour of the campus. He also visited and was given a tour of the Deep Creek...
The ‘We Farmers Market’ open air facility located on the CTI campus in Rock Sound, South Eleuthera in full swing earlier in 2021. The One Eleuthera Foundation (OEF), in partnership with The Centre for Training and Innovation (CTI), continues to evolve and sustain its community-enhancing initiatives and partnerships. This fall, the Virtual...
Royal Bahamas Police Force, 47th Independence Anniversary, Clifford Park. The Independence Celebrations Committee in conjunction with the Bahamas Christian Council marked the country’s 47th Anniversary with an innovative made-for-television virtual programme that kept Bahamians entertained from start to finish, showing abundant young talent in a four-hour...
Colorful dancer with Rock Sound’s New Vision group performs energetically during the 2019 Eleuthera Junkanoo Festival hosted in Governor’s Harbour, Central Eleuthera on January 12th, 2019. (Eleuthera, The Bahamas) The penultimate Junkanoo event of the season, and the fourth since the splendour of Junkanoo action began on island during...
The splendour of the costumes blended with the traditional rhythms of Bahamian Junkanoo were on display in Hatchet Bay on Christmas Day 2018 with locals and tourists out to take it all in. The rain earlier in the afternoon, did not cast a wet blanket on the two groups from Tarpum Bay and Hatchet Bay, who gave it their all in capturing the attention...
It was a night of young mermaids weaving around drums, bells and floats, all part of the small but lively Junkanoo group on the street in front of the Deep Creek park, South Eleuthera on January 1st, 2019. Aided by Junkanooers from Tarpum Bay, Rock Sound and surrounding settlements, the community was able to once again put on an enjoyable affair for...
(Eleuthera, Bahamas) – The sights, colours and energy of the Boxing Day Junkanoo parade showdown in Harbour Island, seen below, were brought to life by two competing groups, the Zulu, and the Warriors. The Zulu began the exciting evening, bringing to life the world of nursery rhymes and fairytales, followed by the Warriors, who paid homage to...