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![Dashwell Flowers [FILE PHOTO]](images/stories/wk-05-16-08/dashwellflowers.jpg "Dashwell Flowers [FILE PHOTO]") A well-known Grand Bahama insurance company executive is presently hospitalised with serious injuries, after being shot during an armed robbery that occurred at his residence, late Saturday evening (May 10, 2008).
At about 10:45pm that evening, a female telephoned the duty officer at the Police Dispatch Centre in Freeport and reported that her neighbour in Treasure Cove, Fortune Bay, ColinaImperial executive Mr Dashville Flowers, had just been robbed and shot at his residence. As a result, uniformed and plainclothes officers accompanied by EMS personnel, were dispatched to that location. |
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'The Sea Wolf', a German TV mini-series, is currently in production on Grand Bahama at Bahamas Film Studios. The $1.8 million production is the latest major project to choose the Bahamas as a key location in its schedule, with an estimated 90% of the film's final content to be shot in the Bahamas. On Thursday, May 8, 2008, local media production company Keen i Media Ltd was invited to visit the set of 'The Sea Wolf' by the Bahamas Film Commission. During this behind-the-scenes visit, the production team was given an opportunity to interview cast members, the director, and representatives of the Bahamas Film Commission. Click HERE to view Part 2. Click the player below to view the first in a two-part video series,
On the Set: 'The Sea Wolf'. No player? Click HERE to view the video on a separate web page. Click HERE for Part 2 |
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Development of Grand Bahama began in the late 1950s, primarily with a focus on light and heavy industry in the newly created Port Area of Freeport. The resort town concept came about as a secondary idea which is why the Lucayan beach area looked so barren in 1961 and opposed to the industrial park which was already in full operation by that time. In the photos below you see a sequence of three images. The first was taken in 1961 by Martin Clemens while working with Ernie's Studio. It shows the area that is now Bell Channel, Our Lucaya and Port Lucaya. 
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 The Cabinet Office announces that, following the posting as Consul General to New York of Mr. Carl Smith, former interim Head of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Commander Stephen Russell of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force has assumed the position of interim Head effective Monday, 5 May, 2008.
ommander Russell, who is on loan from the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, has previously been involved with the Disaster Relief and Recovery Unit of the Cabinet Office from 1992 to 2001, and served as Deputy Coordinator of the Unit from 1997 to 2001. During that period he also served on the Board of the Caribbean Disaster Emergency Response Agency (CDERA).
The Cabinet Office is ensuring that all appropriate steps are taken to prepare The Bahamas for the onset of the hurricane season which begins on 1 June, 2008 and welcomes the return and able leadership of Commander Russell.
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 After embarking on an advertisement campaign for the past few months with the expressed purpose of reaching out to delinquent borrowers, the Bahamas Mortgage Corporation now intends to go after those individuals whose loans are in arrears.
Managing Director at the Corporation, Jerome Godfrey said at a press conference Monday, May 6 that the advertisements, which began prior to the Christmas season, encouraged persons to come in, discuss and arrange a programme to update their mortgage arrears in a timely manner.
But Mr. Godfrey said, “Whereas this initiative has had a marginal degree of success, many of our mortgagors have not taken advantage of the opportunity.”
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 The Inagua Sustainable Tourism Master Plan study revealed tremendous potential for the island to be developed and promoted as “the Outback of the Caribbean.”
Close to 40 representatives of government agencies, government ministers, private organizations and interested citizens gathered Monday afternoon to hear the results of the study, which was jointly sponsored by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Bahamas National Trust, the people of Inagua and the Ministry of Tourism & Aviation. The group was able to discuss the findings, offering further comments to the consultants’ recommendations for future steps in developing Inagua.
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