Interesting information on what's happening in the Bahamas
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - Sunday December 11th, 2011, Prime Minster Hubert A Ingraham spoke to a full house of enthusiastic FNM supporters at Christ The King Auditorium explaining why he chose to dismiss former minster of housing, Kenneth Russell, MP for High Rock on Grand Bahama Island. As is our custom, we provide herewith, the unedited video of the entire meeting for your review and edification. This Video was produced by Mackey Media Ltd.
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - Just one short month after the Bahamas Film Commission - Grand Bahama brought the FLIFF on Location: Grand Bahama Island film festival, two Canadian productions have been shot on the island; two Television commercials for a Canadian Visa company (one in English, one in French), and an clothing apparel catalog shoot for Trimark Sportswear Group, Canada. TheBahamasWeekly.com caught up with Judd Allison, Producer, Picture Perfect Productions of Miami, Florida and e...
Freeport, Bahamas - Grand Bahama has a new art gallery! On November 9th, The Grand Gallery officially opened at the Grand Lucayan Resort as the newest attraction on Retail Street. Artists to have work already represented in the gallery are from Nassau and Grand Bahama, and most were on hand for the opening event. TheBahamasWeekly.com is pleased to present video interviews with contributing artists Chantal Bethel (Grand Bahama), Alisa Streather (Grand Bahama) Claudette Dean (Grand Bahama), Kish...
The Artist community on Grand Bahama Island and the entire Bahamas were feeling Grand on Wednesday November 9th, as The Grand Lucayan officially opened the doors to their newest attraction on retail street; ‘The Grand Gallery’. This is another bold initiative by the Grand Lucayan that is part of a series of cultural events conceptualized by Hutchison Bahamas Ltd CEO Gary Gilbert and Corporate Affairs Manager, FCP, FHC, GBAC; Sherry Rodgers Brookes and executed with the aid of Michael Pintard o...
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - September 15th, 2011 the Celebrate Freeport Committee hosted an informative 3-hour forum on the Hawksbill Creek Agreement at the Foster B. Pestaina Center, Christ the King Church Auditorium to a highly responsive audience. The panel of presenters comprised of former general counsel of the Grand Bahama Port Authority Group of Companies, Carey Leonard; Grand Bahama Chamber president, Peter Turnquest; economist Hank Ferguson, and the forum was lead by committee cha...
With all of the devastation that has occurred around us in other parts of The Bahamas, Grand Bahama Island has much to be grateful for this time around. I shot this video during what ended up as the height of the storm out on the our lanais and in our garden that I thought would never be the same again.
Freeport, Bahamas - The Bahamas Weekly brings you a video interview with Chairman of the upcoming Celebrate Freeport event, Pastor Eddie Victor. Pastor Victor explains that the event will take place to commemorate the anniversary of the signing of the Hawksbill Creek Agreement, which was officially signed on August 4th, 1955 and came into law on August 5th of the same year. From August 4th through August 7th, 2011 the business and religious sectors of Freeport will bring together a series of e...
Freeport, Bahamas - The Ministry of Tourism & Aviation, in conjunction with the Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival (FLIFF) recently announced ‘FLIFF On-Location: Grand Bahama Island’ an offshore component of FLIFF to be held on Grand Bahama Island, October 27th – 30th, 2011. Craig Woods, Film Commissioner for The Bahamas and Gregory Von Hausch, President/CEO, FLIFF made a special trip to the island on Monday, July 18th, to look at the proposed layout of the festival, attend planning me...
We present herewith our final performance as the original 'Straight Up!' band comprising; Joanna Lambias (vocals), Chris Mockrish (guitar), Derek Gape (vocals), Dave Mackey (guitar), Vince'Sprocket'Knowles (bass)and David 'Shakey D'Williams (drums). We had a short but amazing musical journey jamming tunes that are timeless; from classic rock to reggae, from blues to calypso, we played it all and had one heck of a good time doing it. Thankfully, we captured this, our final farewell performance ...
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island - The Bahamas Weekly is pleased to present herewith this second video of the multi-part series of presentations delivered at The Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce’ Economic Development Summit that took place June 10th, 2011. In this segment you will get the opportunity to hear from Sarah MacDonald, the newly appointed President and CEO of the Grand Bahama Power Company. Mrs. MacDonald discusses improved reliability of electrical service as a result of the new tempo...