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2018 List of Emergency Shelters for All Bahamas
#Bahamas, June 25, 2018 –
2018 LIST OF EMERGENCY SHELTERS
NEW PROVIDENCE
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Mount Moriah Baptist Church | Farrington Road |
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New Providence Community Centre | Blake Road |
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Hillview Seventh Day Adventist Church | Tonique Williams Darling Hwy |
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Love Worth Finding Ministries | Golden Isles Road |
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Sir Kendal Isaac’s Gymnasium | University Drive |
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St. Paul’s Anglican Church | Lyford Cay |
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Calvary Haitian Baptist Church | West Avenue |
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Church of God of Prophecy | East & Lifebouy Streets |
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Salvation Army | Meadow Street |
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St. John’s Native Baptist Church | Meeting Street |
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Ebenezer Mission Baptist Church | St. Charles Vincent Street |
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New Dimension Church of God | Joe Farrington Road |
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Fox Hill Community Center | Joe Farrington Road |
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Church of God Auditorium | Joe Farrington Road |
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Epiphany Anglican Church | Prince Charles Drive |
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Epworth Hall/Ebenezer Methodist Church | Shirley Street |
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Holy Cross Anglican Church | Highbury Park off Soldier Road |
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Kemp Road Ministries | Kemp Road |
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Pilgrim Baptist Church | St. James Road |
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Salvation Army | Mackey Street |
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Agape Full Gospel Baptist Church | Kennedy Subdivision |
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Golden Gates Assembly | Carmichael Road |
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New Bethlehem Baptist Church | Independence Drive |
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Southwest Cathedral Church of God | Carmichael Road |
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All Saints Anglican Parish | Joan’s Heights |
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Remnant Tabernacle of Praise | Carmichael Road |
HURRICANE SHELTERS IN THE FAMILY ISLANDS
2018 HURRICANE SEASON
ABACO
North Abaco
Amy Roberts Primary School – Green Turtle Cay
Grand Cay All Age School – Grand Cay
Central Abaco
Central Abaco Primary School – Dundas Town
South Abaco
Sandy Point Community Center – Ernest Dean Highway
ACKLINS
Command Centre – Spring Point Acklins
ANDROS
North Andros
Church of God of Prophecy – Conch Sound
Church of God of Prophecy – Mastic Point Town
Nicholls’s Town Primary School – Nicholls’s Town
Bamsi – Barc
Police Station (Command Centre) – Nicholls’s Town
First Baptist Church – San Andros
B.A. Newton Primary – Red Bays
Central Andros
Church of God – Cargill Creek
Pentecostal Church – Bowen Sound
Miracle Revival International – Calabash Bay
New Highway Pentecostal Church – Blanket Sound
New Highway Pentecostal Church – Love Hill
St. Bartholomew Church – Bearing Point
Police Station (Command Centre) – Administration Complex
South Andros
Long Bay Cay Preschool – Long Bay Cays, South Andros
Deep Creek Primary School – Deep Creek
Friendship Native Baptist Church – The Bluff, South Andros
St. Paul’s Baptist Church – Black Point
MANGROVE CAY
Mangrove Cay High School – Swains
Burnt Rock Primary – Burnt Rock
BERRY ISLAND
Church of God of Prophecy – Great Harbour Cay
BIMINI & CAT CAY
Gateway – Bimini
Big Game Fishing Hotel – Bimini
Clinic – Bimini
CAT ISLAND
St. Andrew’s Anglican – Arthur’s Town
Lovely Zion Baptist Church – The Bluff
Sea View Seventh Day Adventist – Dumfries
Holy Redeemer Catholic Church – New Bight
Mt. Sinai – New Bight
Zion Baptist Church – Old Bight
Zion Baptist Church – McQueen’s
St. Mark’s Baptist Church – Port Howe
Children’s Home – Old Bight
CROOKED ISLAND & LONG CAY
Ezekiel Thompson Hall – Cabbage Hill
Church of God of Prophecy – Cripple Hill
Deleveaux’s Residence – Major’s Cay
Don Leadon’s Residence – Albert Town
All Saints Anglican Church/Priest Residence – Church Grove
Command Centre (Ezekiel Thompson Hall) – Cabbage Hill
ELEUTHERA
North Eleuthera District, Mainland, Spanish Wells & Harbour Island
The Haitian Baptist People Church – The Bluff, North Eleuthera
New Jerusalem Church – Blackwood, North Eleuthera
Little Scholars Pre-School – Lower Bogue, North Eleuthera
Charles Wesley Methodist Church – Lower Bogue, North Eleuthera
Mission Church of God – Upper Bogue, North Eleuthera
St. Johns Parish Hall – Harbour Island
New Alliance Church of God – Harbour Island
Harbour Island Public Library – Harbour Island
Zion Methodist Church – Current Island
The Current Community Centre – The Current, North Eleuthera
Central Eleuthera
Governor’s Harbour Primary – Governor’s Harbour
The Salvation Army – Palmetto Point
Church of the Nazarene – Palmetto Point
George E. Johnson Memorial Centre
(St. Mark’s Methodist Church Hall) – Hatchet Bay
Camp Symonette – James Cistern
South Eleuthera
Church of God of Prophecy – Tarpum Bay
Rock Sound Primary School – Rock Sound
Green Castle Primary School – Green Castle
Wemyss’ Bight Primary School – Wemyss Bight
Deep Creek Primary School – Deep Creek
EXUMA
Exuma & Exuma Cays
St. Mary Anglican Church – Williams Town
The New Mt. Olive Union Baptist Church – Hartswell
St. Andrew’s Community Centre – George Town
Bethel Union Baptist Church – Ramsey
Mt. Hermon Union Baptist Church – Mt. Thompson
Palestine Union Baptist Church – The Forest
Ebenezer Baptist Church – Farmer’s Hill
Mt. Sinai Baptist Church – Stuart Manor
St. Theresa’s Catholic Church – George Town
Exuma Resource Centre – Hooper’s Bay
St. Margaret’s Anglican Church – Harts/Steventon
Ebenezer Baptist Church – Barraterre
Calvary Mission Baptist Church – Rolleville
St. Peter’s Union Baptist Church – Forbes Hill
St. Matthew’s Union Baptist Church – The Ferry
St. Mary Anglican Church – Farmer’s Cay
Mt. Olive Union Baptist Church – Staniel Cay
GRAND BAHAMA
City Of Freeport
Foster B. Pestina Center/Pro-Cathedral of
Christ the King (Special Needs Shelter) – East Atlantic Drive & Pioneers Way
First Baptist Church Hall – Columbus Drive & Nansen Ave.
Central Church of God Hall – Pioneers Way West & Coral Rd.
Jack Haywood High School – Wildcat Ave. & Pioneers Loop East
Cancer Association – West Atlantic Drive & Norma Headley Dr.
Shiloh Seventh-Day Adventist Church – Torcross Road
Mack Town To Pinder’s Point
St. George’s High school Gymnasium – Sunset Highway off East Beach Drive
East Grand Bahama
Maurice Moore Primary School – Sandcombe Drive
Freeport Seventh-Day Adventist Church – Grambier and Beach Way Drive
West Grand Bahama
Church of God of Prophecy – Sea Grape, Eight Mile Rock
INAGUA
St. Philip’s Anglican Church – South Street
Zion Baptist Church – Albert’s Street
LONG ISLAND
Seymour’s Gospel Chapel – Seymour’s (North)
Highway Church of God – Doctor’s Creek
St. John’s Anglican Church – Buckley’s (South)
Francis Darville Centre (Holy Cross Anglican Church) – Hamilton’s (South)
Community Centre – Clarence Town (South)
Holy Family Anglican Church – Mortimer’s (South)
First Assemblies of God – Salt Pond
MAYAGUANA
Betsy Bay Community Centre – Betsy Bay
Berea Mission Church – Pirates Well
St. James Native Baptist Church – Abraham’s Bay
RAGGED ISLAND
Holy Innocence (Evacuation if necessary) – Ragged Island
SAN SALVADOR & RUM CAY
Gerace Research Centre – United Estates
Idell Jones Community Hall – Cockburn Town
Fellowship In Christ Kingdom Ministries – Cockburn Town
Rum Cay All Aged – Port Nelson, Rum Cay
Please note that this list would be updated to include those islands, communities or areas where emergency shelters are not yet designated.
For more information contact: Lindsay Thompson, Public Information Officer, NEMA at (242) 322-6081. 322-6085. 361-5569. Email: nemabahamas242@gmail.com. Website: www.bahamas.gov.bs. Facebook: NEMA-Bahamas
Bahamas News
Rosewood Exuma: A precedent-setting case for environmental law and future development in The Bahamas
By Eric Carey, ONE Consultants, former Executive Director of the Bahamas National Trust.
We are facing an extraordinarily important moment in judicial history in The Bahamas as we await a decision on the trial of allegations in
the Yntegra group’s Rosewood Exuma project.
As former Minister of the Environment, Romauld Ferreira, put it in the Supreme Court last week: “A lot is at stake…a great deal of what will be considered in this case sets the stage for what’s to come for future development in the country.”
In the trial of the judicial review of government approvals given to Yntegra for their Rosewood Exuma resort this week, we’ve heard technical arguments about failure to make key environmental documents like Yntegra’s Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Management Plan available to the public, failure of key documents to assess some of the most controversial aspects of the project, an unlawful consultation process, and a failure to conduct further consultation following major changes to the development.
Lawyers for Turtlegrass described how there was a “salami slicing” of the project into chunks as a way to circumvent the approvals process and disguise its full impact from public scrutiny. Only certain portions came before the public and key stakeholders like Turtlegrass and Over Yonder Cay for scrutiny, while some of the most controversial aspects did not. This is particularly problematic given what is at stake – the dredging of a beautiful Exuma bay, the North Bay, to transform it into an industrial shipping channel, complete with an enormous seawall, dock, back-of-house facilities and other industrial infrastructure.
It is unfortunate that it has had to come to this – an expensive judicial review process that calls out the government for falling down on its duties to protect the environment and follow the law – but it is important and the broader implications should not be overlooked. When Justice Leif Farquharson rules on this case, he’ll set a precedent that could echo in The Bahamas for years to come, one that answers the question: are the 2019 environmental laws that Ferreira took to parliament after many years of advocacy by environmentalists toothless tigers that are just for decoration – or are they capable of protecting the environment that we all depend on and the rights of those affected by projects to have a genuine say in them?
What is curious is that at the same time as these points are being raised in court as part of the judicial review, we are seeing personal attacks about Bob Coughlin – the person spearheading this legal action and test of environmental laws – by online trolls. Coughlin, an Exuma resident for almost a decade, has long been established as an environmental advocate and a passionate philanthropist – one who has donated almost $4 million to causes in The Bahamas since 2018, including millions to the organisation I once led, the Bahamas National Trust.
For reasons one can only speculate about, these trolls have been trying to make out all sorts of absurd things: that his legal action in support
of environmental protection is a petty dispute born out of fears of competition. That Coughlin no longer even wants to pursue his eco-tourism project, when the reality is that he was forced to put it on hold because of the destructive environmental plans that are in dispute. That he is the only one who has an issue with this Rosewood Exuma resort, when in fact, neighbouring resort, Over Yonder Cay – one of the top rated resorts in the Caribbean – as well as the Save Exuma Alliance – consisting of most of the local islands and businesses in the Exuma area, and thousands of petition signers have expressed their concern with the project – over 9,000 to date. Most ironically, they claim, wrongly, that Coughlin received crown land for personal use, when in fact it is Yntegra who received crown land while having no development track record, when Coughlin instead bought his lease on Sampson Cay from a private owner.
The timing of these claims, in the week of the trial, suggest a patronising and cynical attempt to distract from the gravity of the case being heard, what it represents, and how important this decision is. With their simplistic, jingoistic and factually-dubious references to crown land, white foreigners, and the like – it’s not hard to imagine that those involved are engaged in a ploy to push the buttons of Bahamians who they apparently believe can be too easily distracted into ignoring the real issue here: that the government, has – in the words of those in the Supreme Court this week – “run roughshod” over environmental laws with its approvals for Yntegra’s Rosewood Exuma project and that this is truly a landmark case and the decision will have a long-lasting impact on future development. This is at a time when foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows into the Bahamian economy are forecast to increase by as much as two thirds over the next two years, according to the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
So I call on my fellow Bahamians to stay focused. This is not a story about one man – it is a story about the future we want for our country and whether we are willing to sacrifice our ability to demand environmental accountability in all developments moving forward. There is too much at stake to be thrown off the track by trolls.
As Ferreira says of the judicial review that now awaits Justice Leif Farquharson’s judgement: “This is the first set of litigation, serious litigation, that takes a deep dive into the Environmental Planning and Protection Act and the environmental impact assessment regulations…There’s a lot at stake here.”
NASSAU, Bahamas — Caribbean Wines & Spirits (CWS), The Bahamas’ leading wine and spirits distributor, proudly supported Paradise
Plates, Hands for Hunger annual fundraiser with a flavorful offering of its newest product, Monument Beverage Co.
Monument, which launched this July and is available across six major islands, made its Paradise Plates debut. Guests enjoyed three bold flavors: Peach Passion, Ginger-Lime and Melon Fizz as they socialized throughout the evening.
Monument brand ambassadors engaged guests with knowledge on the ready-to-drink beverage’s unique taste and look. Many attendees were delighted to learn that Monument is 100% Bahamian-made and owned and enjoyed seeing the various national landmarks on the packaging.
The booth was adorned with vibrant brand colors, striped arches, tropical florals and a photo worthy backdrop featuring Monument cans filled with florals cascading down the wall.
At the end of the event, the entire Monument inventory had finished, making Monument’s Paradise Plates debut a huge success.
For more details on Caribbean Wines & Spirits, new products and specials, visit www.cwsbahamas.com today.
NASSAU, Bahamas — Schweppes, in collaboration with Nemiroff Vodka dazzled guests with handcrafted cocktails during Paradise Plates, Hands for Hunger’s annual fundraiser held at Atlantis’ Imperial Ballroom.
The evenings’ theme, 70’s: Paradise Disco, inspired bold and delicious sips from Schweppes and Nemiroff. The beautiful disco themed Schweppes booth, adorned with LED signs, lush greenery and hanging black and gold metallic orbs shined throughout the room.
Schweppes’ brand representatives and mixologists dressed in chic 70’s speakeasy attire engaged attendees throughout the night. Guests enjoyed receiving knowledge of each product and experiencing the vibrant energy of brand representatives.
Nemiroff Vodka, which is locally distributed by Caribbean Wines and Spirits (CWS), The Bahamas’ premier wines and spirits distributor; offered a unique variety of vodkas which made the perfect blend with Schweppes. Guests enjoyed, Nemiroff’s Honey Pepper, De Luxe, Burning Pear, Wild Cranberry, and Bold Orange vodkas throughout the night.
Fan favorite cocktails of the night were: the Wild Cranberry Tonic and the Bold Orange Fizz.
Following a positive response at Paradise Plates, CWS is offering Nemiroff and Schweppes specials at local liquor stores for the entire
month. With the purchase of any 1-liter Nemiroff vodka, enjoy a complimentary three-pack of Schweppes mixers, to recreate the magic of Schweppes and Nemiroff.
Cara Douglas-Adderley, Senior Marketing Director for Caribbean Bottling (CBC), local producers and distributors of Coca-Cola and Dasani products and CWS shared the inspiration behind the Schweppes and Nemiroff promotion.
“We are thrilled to have paired Schweppes and Nemiroff for Paradise Plates this year, creating a premium cocktail experience for guests. After receiving such positive feedback, we wanted to extend that experience to consumers at home. Throughout October, consumers can visit their favorite watering hole, buy any 1-liter Nemiroff bottle and receive a free three-pack of Schweppes.”
Caribbean Bottling Company is proud to offer Schweppes, Coca-Cola’s premier mixer in collaboration with Caribbean Wines & Spirits and Nemiroff Vodka at Paradise Plates in support of Hands for Hunger’s mission.
For more information on CBC’s philanthropic work, new products and specials, visits www.cbcbahamas.com today.
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