GAIN AN EDGE - FOCUS: Student support for budding educators
SINCE 2011, Lyford Cay Foundations has served more than 500 students through FOCUS, its out-of-school time, tuition-free enrichment programme for youth in grades 5 through twelve. With the Ministry of Education’s curriculum as its foundation, FOCUS provides college readiness and access support for public school students over an eight-year period as they seek to become the first in their families to attend college.
INSIGHT: Pressing threats to our marine environment should inspire Bahamians to act
IT was disappointing to see a fun and celebratory snorkeling event marred by oil contamination in our waters this past Saturday while attending the 10th anniversary of the Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF) Coral Reef Sculpture Garden (CRSG) at Clifton Heritage. This site is often described as “the perfect fusion of art, education and conservation”. It has been featured in over 100 publications worldwide in its mere than ten-year history.
BLTA fields two more talented teams for U12 competition
THE Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association (BLTA) has fielded two more talented teams for competition at the under-12 competition in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
Renee ‘Sunshine’ Curry-Davis remembered as a ‘legend, a hero’
RENEE Curry-Davis was remembered as the “Sunshine” who met the “Son Shine” in our heavenly father as she exemplified what it meant to be a “legend, a hero and a caring and loving person” to everyone she came in contact with.
Family Guardian wins 2nd Bankers Athletics Association Golf Tourney
THE Bankers Athletics Association hosted its second annual golf tournament last Saturday at the Bahamas Golf Federation’s (BGF) nine-hole golf course at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.
The sports calendar
AFTER taking a break over the weekend for the funeral service for the late Renee “Sunshine” Curry-Davis, the New Providence Softball Association will be back in action this week with the following games on tap in the Bankers Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.
Wrestler Shannon Hanna II takes home gold, bronze
BAHAMIAN amateur wrestler Shannon Hanna II made his tournament appearances count in June, picking up two medals along the way.
Wrestler Kaylia Capri dazzles home crowd in win
BAHAMIAN wrestler Alexis Gray, also known by stage name Kaylia Capri, experienced a warm welcome in her first official pro wrestling match in The Bahamas at the inaugural Baha Bash live wrestling event presented by All Caribbean Wrestling (ACW) on Saturday.
Who will compete in Paris?
Although there were some notable performances amidst the absence of some top-notch competitors, athletes will have to wait and see if they have booked their tickets to the 2024 Olympic Games.
Team Bahamas ready to represent with ‘pride’
EVER since the Bahamas senior men’s national basketball team won the FIBA Men’s Pre-Qualifying Olympic Qualifying Tournaments in Santiago del Estero, Argentina, last summer, there has been growing optimism about the team’s chances of making Bahamian history at the Olympic level.
ACTIVTRADES: Europe on the brink
Back in April, Emanuel Macron ominously said that Europe (referring to the European Union (EU) was mortal and could die. What the French president meant by this was that the EU, and its free circulation of goods, capital and citizens, was not guaranteed to last forever and requires nurturing.
Pilots ‘blindsided’ over Customs fee increase
Private aviation was yesterday said to have been “blindsided” by Customs fee increases due to take effect today that will result in the sector paying more than a Boeing commercial jet airliner.
Briland resort demanding $913k from horse venture
A top Briland resort is demanding that a Bahamian-owned horse riding business pay it $912,500 within ten days or face the threat of legal action as their long-simmering dispute reignites.
‘Under siege’: Tax Task Force treating us like criminals
Bahamian businesses “feel under siege” from the Government’s tax enforcers treating legitimate operators as if they are common criminals, private sector leaders have blasted.
ONE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: The impact of civil societies in The Bahamas and Caribbean
“Well, I really want to know if your research covers topics like “Susu,” “Pardner,” or “Box Hand,” topics that show who we are as Caribbean people and explain how we have supported, cared for, and loved each other.” A student posed this question to me after I had presented to a group of PhD students as a part of their research seminar at the University of the Virgin Islands doctoral programme in Creative Leadership for Innovation and Change. My topic for the session was “The Building Blocks of Caribbean-Based and Community-Engaged Research”. During this presentation, I used my recently published book, Get Involved: Stories of Bahamian Civil Society (Rutgers University Press), as a roadmap for the students to advance their work as emerging Caribbean researchers.
DIANE PHILLIPS: The smallest gesture
IN a week marked by major upheavals and startling events, and after a few months of columns devoted to relatively heavy topics I thought we could use a little light-hearted break. So today Page 9 is dedicated to those who help, care and share whether an idea or an act.
STATESIDE: The marginal impact of US presidential debates
THE political director was arriving at a big regional conference, surrounded by several party associates. She wields quite a bit of power as the regional eyes and ears for a Democratic governor in a reliably blue state where Republican victories in statewide elections are an anomalous oddity and GOP power tends to be concentrated in isolated rural areas with low population and almost zero national political visibility.
FRONT PORCH: Masking grand failures: A structural crisis in tourism
A visitor surveying the grand resorts, all-inclusives and boutique properties on Nassau/Paradise Island, the tourism properties on the Family Islands, and the flashy world-class cruise ships in Nassau Harbour, will be impressed by much of the tourism product and infrastructure in The Bahamas.
East Nassau water outage due to damaged transmission main on Prince Charles Drive
SOME eastern New Providence residents had their water supply interrupted as the Water and Sewerage Corporation repaired a damaged transmission main on Prince Charles Drive yesterday.
Police still looking into an apparent motorbike accident that left teen dead
POLICE have yet to classify the death of Jamesly Richmond, a 19-year-old whose motorbike reportedly went missing after he was apparently run over in a traffic accident.
