Eleuthera Spelling Bee Champions! (L-R) Johnathan Randall – Overall Winner, Brady Sineus – Second Place, and Torii Knowles – Third Place. (Eleuthera, Bahamas) – The atmosphere, during the penultimate round of the 2017 Eleuthera District Spelling Bee Competition was electric, as parents, teachers, coaches and other students watched...
Monthly Archives: January 2017
Sometime around 2pm on Tuesday, January 31st, 2017, police in Eleuthera were summoned to Preston H. Albury High School to investigate an altercation involving a group of students. As a result, the school was visited and it was discovered that a student was struck to the head with a rock and had been taken to the clinic to seek medical attention. There...
Eldri Mackey, Vice President for the Northern Bahamas receiving the corporate donor award from Her Excellency, Dame Marguerite Pindling, Governor General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the Red Cross executive committee in 2016. Nassau, The Bahamas. January 31, 2017. BTC was a Platinum Sponsor at the annual Red Cross Ball. BTC’s CEO, Leon Williams...
Eleuthera, Bahamas – One Eleuthera Foundation and Susan G. Komen’s Breast Cancer Outreach Program (BCOP) manned an informational booth at Susan G. Komen Bahamas Race for the Cure on January 14th, 2017. Community Outreach Assistant, Shapreka Clarke (bottom left) and Administrator for Cancer Society Eleuthera, Chinnici McDonald, travelled to...
(Eleuthera, Bahamas) – The Ministry of Education in Eleuthera in partnership with Education USA/College Ready Bahamas will host a Mini College Fair at the Resource Center in Savannah Sound, on Wednesday, February 1st, 2017. The event is scheduled to begin at 9:30am and will go on until 2:30pm, with 11th and 12th graders from across the district...
Hon. Fred Mitchell, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Today (28 January 2017) on MSNBC Cable News, on a show hosted by Joy-Ann Reid a guest, Malcolm Nance, a reported expert in security and terrorism, made the following statement: ” We [ the United States] have not banned terrorists from Brazil. ISIS has dozens of members from...
Elcott ColebyDeputy DirectorBahamas Information Services CHRISTIE RETURNED AS PLP LEADER IN LANDSLIDE VICTORY In what party chairman Bradley B. Roberts characterized as a magnificent display of democracy, incumbent party leader and Prime Minister the Rt. Hon. Perry G. Christie was returned as leader of the Progressive Liberal Party after elections were...
The sadness of the outcome of the often expensive and dangerous incomplete journey for people in search of a better way of life, is visible on the faces of this recently apprehended group, who were transferred to New Providence for further processing. A capsized Haitian vessel, with an outboard engine attached, was discovered on Sunday evening, January...
Suspect Rhonda Knowles Police in Central Eleuthera on Wednesday afternoon, January 25th, 2017, arrested Rhonda Knowles of Tarpum Bay, in reference to the stabbing of respected pastor, Mrs. Clarice Thompson, of Global Outreach Ministries from the township of James’ Cistern. According to police at about 12:10pm on Wednesday, they received a report...
A capsized Haitian vessel, with an outboard engine attached, was discovered on Sunday evening, January 22nd, 2017, on the coast near Bannerman Town in South Eleuthera, at about 10pm. Police and Immigration after searching the surrounding areas, as of 10am on Monday, January 23rd, had taken eight (8) Haitian nationals into custody – five (5)...