Bahamas News

You love her don’t you? Well, you can’t say it with a diamond one can hardly see. Guys, I have got to tell you that diamonds are a girl’s best friend.

We love them in any shape and form but not just any size. We will only take the small, itsy-bitsty, minuscule ones if they come in clusters…..and accompanied by the great-grandfather diamond. But we can’t take those “baby” diamonds accompanied by the words, “I love you.” Uhhhmmmmmmm-mm…..nooooo!!
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“Talking for less” is just one of the mottos adopted by The Bahamas Telecommunications Company, which launched three new products on Wednesday aimed at making long distance calls cheaper and improving Internet service.

BTC launched Voice Internet Bahamas Electronic (VIBE), which allows customers to use a standard telephone and broadband Internet connection to make and receive international phone calls at an “incredibly low rate”.
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Prime Minister Perry Christie has chosen Minister Bradley Roberts and Cat Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador MP Philip “Brave” Davis as members of the boundaries commission.

The commission’s chairman is the speaker of the House of Assembly Oswald Ingraham who has called the first meeting for this Friday at the House of Assembly.
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The Save Guana Cay Reef Association is inviting all Bahamians to join them and establish a Save The Bahamas Association, which in addition to protecting the environment could also serve as an advisory source to potential investors.

The Associations attorney, Fred Smith yesterday said his clients had been buoyed by their recent legal success at the Privy Council, and felt that with larger numbers they could have a similar impact in protecting the entire country.
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The proposed amendments to the sports fishing catch limits have been welcomed by some Bahamian charter companies, who said yesterday they are rebounding from one of the worst years ever for fish supply.

Captain Mike Russel, of Chubasco Charters at Bayshore Marina, told The Tribune he though the proposed amendments, which will decrease the catch limits for foreign sports fishermen, are a good idea because some were taking advantage of the fish in Bahamian waters.
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Police officers busted an apparent human smuggling operation early Sunday morning, picking up nine illegal immigrants in a boat at a local marina.

Acting on a tip, officers from “Operation Quiet Storm” arrested four Guyanese men, four Guyanese women and one Jamaican man aboard the vessel “Liberty” at the Bay Shore Marina, East Bay Street.
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Clean water for more of the Family Islands is next on their agenda, Works Ministry officials said during a tour of the Reverse Osmosis Plant in Eleuthera.

On a visit to Eleuthera last week, Minister of Works and utilities, Bradley B. Roberts, said that supplying good potable water is a definite goal for all of the Family Islands. He said he wanted to bring first class water by the process of reverse osmosis to everyone, no matter where they lived in the Bahamas.
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Bahamian National Party leader Dexter Johnson believes “there is good reason” for the government to reduce the current number of constituencies in The Bahamas.

According to Mr Johnson, by reducing the number of constituencies, the country could save money, reduce electoral fraud and make room for local government.
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Eleuthera residents can look forward to a “smooth drive” in just a couple of months as the current rocky roads will be re-paved, officials from the Ministry of Works have promised. Minister of Works and Utilities Bradley Roberts announced that the government would soon be executing contracts for the paving and re-paving of roads in several settlements in Eleuthera. “Many of these roads, I am told, have been in varying stages of deterioration for many years,” said Mr Roberts. “I am delighted to announce that contracts will be awarded to three companies before the end of September [for the road replacement project.”

Mr Roberts explained that because the project of replacing old galvanised pipes in many of the Eleuthera settlements was ongoing, the road re-paving plan would have to be delayed until after that was completed.

The minister was speaking on Friday in Eleuthera at a Water and Sewerage contract signing ceremony.

Some local residents, including Donny Kelly, emphasised to Mr Roberts the importance of fixing the deteriorating roadways on the island.

“If you were to pass down in north right now, the road is in terrible condition,” said Mr Kelly.

Mr Roberts said that “hopefully by October” the work should have started. And in some of the areas, where there was not a need for the water main enhancement, the road replacement could be completed as quickly as the contractor could work. “Starting in the south…the estimated cost for these road is approximately $1 million,” said Mr Roberts. “The estimated cost for the north and central Eleuthera roads are approximately $3 million.”

The minister said that even after the completion of the roadwork, the ministry would implement a rigid maintenance programme, ensuring that minor potholes would be immediately replaced, if and when needed.

Alisa Carey, who lives in Nassau but is a descendant of Eleuthera, said she was happy that the government was taking the time to better the roads of her hometown, although she thought a lot had been done already. “Some parts are good and some parts are bad,” said Ms Carey. “They are not as bad as they used to be back in the day, but that also depends on where you live.”

Settlements slated for roadwork include Cotton Bay, Deep Creek, Princess Cay and Bannerman Town, James Cistern, Governor’s Harbour and the road to the dock and ramp area in the south. For north Eleuthera, Queen’s Highway - north of the Glass Window Bridge, the car park at Three Island Dock, Current Island, The Current, Lower Bogue and The Bluff.

A Governor’s Harbour taxi driver who did not want to be named said the paved roads would make his job a lot more “enjoyable.”

An FNM government would modernise the “dinosaur” postal system using public -private cooperation to form a new communications corporation, the party said yesterday.

Outlining its plans for the restructuring the postal system, the Opposition said the world was advancing as part of an “ongoing communications revolution” while The Bahamas was lagging behind.
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