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2018 List of Emergency Shelters for All Bahamas

Published

6 years ago

June 25, 2018

Deandrea Hamilton

#Bahamas, June 25, 2018 –

2018 LIST OF EMERGENCY SHELTERS

NEW PROVIDENCE

NO.	DISTRICT AND NAME	LOCATION
	WESTERN DISTRICT
	Mount Moriah Baptist Church	Farrington Road
	New Providence Community Centre	Blake Road
	Hillview Seventh Day Adventist Church	Tonique Williams Darling Hwy
	Love Worth Finding Ministries	Golden Isles Road
	Sir Kendal Isaac’s Gymnasium	University Drive
	St. Paul’s Anglican Church	Lyford Cay

	CENTRAL DISTRICT
	Calvary Haitian Baptist Church	West Avenue
	Church of God of Prophecy	East & Lifebouy Streets
	Salvation Army	Meadow Street
	St. John’s Native Baptist Church	Meeting Street
	Ebenezer Mission Baptist Church	St. Charles Vincent Street

	EASTERN DISTRICT
	New Dimension Church of God	Joe Farrington Road
	Fox Hill Community Center	Joe Farrington Road
	Church of God Auditorium	Joe Farrington Road
	Epiphany Anglican Church	Prince Charles Drive
	Epworth Hall/Ebenezer Methodist Church	Shirley Street
	Holy Cross Anglican Church	Highbury Park off Soldier Road
	Kemp Road Ministries	Kemp Road
	Pilgrim Baptist Church	St. James Road
	Salvation Army	Mackey Street

	SOUTHERN DISTRICT

	Agape Full Gospel Baptist Church	Kennedy Subdivision
	Golden Gates Assembly	Carmichael Road
	New Bethlehem Baptist Church	Independence Drive
	Southwest Cathedral Church of God	Carmichael Road
	All Saints Anglican Parish	Joan’s Heights
	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

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Get your laugh on, March On show coming to Turks and Caicos with box office at IGA Friday and Saturday

Published

4 hours ago

May 3, 2024

Shanieka

Dana Malcolm

Staff Writer

After resounding success in the Bahamas, hit play ‘March On, The Story of Us’ has been inundated with requests to take their show on the road, and the first location they’ll be hitting is Providenciales Turks and Caicos with tickets on sale this weekend from May 3 to 5.

Magnetic Media spoke to Gea Pierre, playwright, who told us the TCI was a natural first choice for the cast and crew.

“We started ‘March On’ in November 2023 and it was really an opportunity for us to tell a story, the story of the Bahamas and to encompass the nations that we have an amazing relationship with like the Turks and Caicos,” she continued “We really got a lot of people calling [for the play] from [the TCI], so much so we really had to pay attention.”

The response to ‘March On’ at home and abroad was overwhelming.

“To say it went well is an understatement, even before we opened we got calls from Canada, from all over the US with people wanting us to come and perform.”

And take the show on the road they did! Gea and her team have launched “March On: The Tour” and will be in Providenciales to perform on May 10th and 11th. It’s the first of a number of stops which include Nassau and several US locations.

A ticket booth will be set up from today, Friday May 3 in the foyer of IGA grocery store beginning at 1 p.m. Friday and then again all day on Saturday, allowing residents to purchase with cash.

Online tickets are available for purchase with credit cards. Then the full team returns on Friday, May 11 for the actual showing at 8 pm and their two showings on Saturday at 4pm and 8 pm. The venue is Brayton Hall, Providenciales under the patronage of Washington Misick, TCI Premier and First Lady Delthia Misick.

Describing the close familial relationships between the TCI and the Bahamas, for many on the crew it will be like coming home Gea told us, for others it will be a treat to visit for the first time, the places that their grandparents described.

Tickets are only $60 for general seating and $75 for VIP seating.

Gea maintained that the team wanted to keep the show as accessible to residents as possible.

As for why you should come out and see the play, other than the great price point:

“The way that people have responded to it is non stoplaughter, people have been moved to tears because there’s some emotion. It does not only lend to Bahamians. It’s a family drama, and anyone who’s ever been a part of a family is going to get something out of it, and something moving.”

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CIBC Caribbean announces the closure of Bay Street Branch

Published

1 day ago

May 2, 2024

Shanieka

CIBC Caribbean today announced that its Bay Street branch will close permanently on 31st May 2024.

CIBC Caribbean’s Managing Director, Dr. Jacqui Bend, in making the announcement said: “We regret this development; however, our bank recognizes that our clients’ needs are changing, and we remain committed to meeting these evolving needs. We are even more focused within the climate of evolving technology advancements on creating product options that focus on security, convenience, and ease of doing business.”

Dr. Bend noted that there will be no job losses as a result of this closure and employees will be redeployed to other branches.

She observed, “Additionally, the closure of the Bay Street branch represents a continuation of the work previously started to repurpose our branch network to serve our clients more efficiently across the region.”

Dr. Bend said the decision to end operations at Bay Street was made with the knowledge that clients will continue to be adequately serviced by a strong branch presence that already exists in The Bahamas. She said the bank has written to its Bay Street clients informing them of the closure and has outlined their future banking options.

“We understand that the closure of Bay Street may be inconvenient to our some of our clients, but we hope that this will be tempered by the knowledge that they have many more avenues available to conduct their banking that are also convenient, safe and practical, using our mobile or online banking platforms or our other branch locations.”

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Freeport Business Expo to connect Grand Bahama businesses and entrepreneurs to expert resources

Published

7 days ago

April 27, 2024

Deandrea Hamilton

Grand Bahama Port Authority, Limited

April 29, 2024 – Freeport, The Bahamas – In line with its mission to create a stronger, more connected Freeport economy, the Grand Bahama Port Authority, Limited (GBPA) is pleased to share details of the upcoming Freeport Business Expo: Tourism Edition, taking place on Thursday, May 2, 2024 at the Grand Lucayan Convention Center in Grand Bahama.

“As the GBPA continues its work to attract investors to Freeport, we offer this showcase of local and international businesses offering services and opportunities to potential and existing licensees,” stated Ian Rolle, GBPA President. “This Expo will not only connect unique international service providers with Bahamian entrepreneurs aiming to introduce new tourist attractions, but also bring together financing institutions to support Bahamian-owned start-ups and existing businesses in the industry.”

The emphasis on tourism at the 2024 Expo ensures that those in tourism-focused businesses are certain to benefit. The event will offer opportunities to meet potential business partners, gain insight on financial opportunities, engage with leaders in workshops and one-on-one sessions, and get answers on starting a Freeport business and obtaining a GBPA license.

“We regularly host community business expos,” said Glendia Sweeting, Manager of Quality Assurance and Special Projects. “But we recognize the significant benefit of an expo focused on enhancing tourism business offerings through connecting international service providers and Bahamian entrepreneurs. We have more than thirty local and national exhibitors taking part on May 2^nd, along with several international service providers.”

Multiple investment projects currently in progress and planned in the city of Freeport is creating anticipation for existing and potential entrepreneurs and this expo is geared towards preparing them for these opportunities. “Grand Bahama is going to experience a significant growth spurt in the next one to three years. I would strongly encourage everybody who wants to get involved in business to look at Grand Bahama as one of the top choices, especially over the next three years,” said Mr. Rolle.

The Expo opens on Wednesday, May 1^st with a welcome reception from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. A full day of learning and networking opportunities follows on Thursday, May 2^nd. GBPA’s partners in the Freeport Business Expo include:

Grand Bahama Island Promotion Board
Ministry for Grand Bahama
Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce
Ministry of Tourism
Bahamas Immigration
Bahamas Customs
Five Star Shipping Company
Viva Wyndham Fortuna
Bahamas Air
Grand Lucayan Hotel

Registration for access to the Expo’s exhibitors is free, and all-access passes are available for purchase. Event details and registration information may be found at freeportbusinessexpo.com.