Conch Poisoning Outbreak

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1 Sectio A_Sectio A tues 7/5/ :15 AM Page 1 stadard srvics supplis ltd. DAN & ASSOCIATS PROFSSIONAL INSURANC AGNTS & BROKRS Meetig Your Needs fficietly ad Professioally Shirley & Church Street Phoe: Shop at StaDarD ServICeS where you buildigs (commercial & residetial) life - group - MedIcAl AuITIes - liability - MArIe homeowers - AuTo could get 20% off Houseware, lie, lamps ad draperies. ad much, much more Tel: (242) Fax: (242) deal s Plaza, Mackey street P.o. box cb assau, bahamas 8:30am - 4:30pm Vol o cts Coch Poisoig Outbreak BY BrtHoY MCDrMott Gamig Idustry Challeged T he Miistry of Health cofirmed yesterday that four cases of Vibrio Parahaemolyticus commoly kow as coch poisoig withi the last hours. Health officials says these four persos cotracted this disease after eatig from Stalls at Potter s Cay dock. The Health Miister Dr. Duae Sads i a press coferece yesterday said the Miistry is moitorig these istaces ad i collaboratio with the Miistry of viromet, ad is takig the ecessary steps to protect the health of those affected ad through targeted ivestigatios to prevet ay further cases. BY JAMLHA MISSICK The implemetatio of the recet Value Added Tax (VAT) icrease has bee quite the scare for may busiesses, icludig Web Shop gamig houses all over the coutry. Craig Flowers, Presidet of FML Group of Compaies says, we fid ourselves i a very disappoitig positio today, after establishig such a good relatioship with successive govermets because this jourey for us started with the Hubert Igraham 4 Health Miister Dr. Duae Sads (Joural file photo) g See PoIsoIg outbreak / page th Idepedece AIversAry - commad performace At UB admiistratio. It moved ito the Perry Christie admiistratio ad ow here we foud ourselves with the Hubert Miis admiistratio, he said. For us to be i the positio today where we are ot called to the table to have a discussio about this type of icrease i icremets, i our structure, we fid it extremely disappoitig, said Mr. Flowers. I ca say ow the die has bee cast, primarily because of the fact that it is ow law that we must pay these fees. g See IdusTry challeged / page 2... Pastors xprss Viws o Vat icras BY BrtHoY MCDrMott A few of the coutry s Pastors of Churches believe that the icrease i Value Added Tax (VAT) will ot affect the church egatively. With the 60 per cet hike i VAT this past Suday, some Bahamias are still ueasy with the govermet s decisio. May persos are also sharig the view that the icrease was uecessary ad is too much for the coutry to hadle at this time. As for the church, Pastor of Golde Gates Assembly World Outreach Miistries, 4 At a Commad Performace i hoour of artistic icos Patricia Bazard, Cleophas Adderley ad Roie Butler as The Bahamas marks its 45th Aiversary of Idepedece -- Goveror Geeral Her xcellecy Dame Marguerite Pidlig ejoyed presetatios by various atioal choirs, orchestras, ad dace troupes at the Performig Arts Cetre, Uiversity of The Bahamas, o Moday eveig, July 2, The Goveror Geeral is pictured seated ear Miister of Health, Dr. the Ho. Duae Sads, Miister of ducatio the Ho. Jeffrey Lloyd, ad Chairma of the 45th Idepedece Secretariat Mark Humes. (BIS Photos/Derek Smith) Bishop Ross Davis says his cocers are for the poor i the coutry. He said, as a Miister, I do ot look at VAT as beig somethig that will hurt the church, because God is o our side ad there s o oe who ca box with God. So if the church is God s, it ca t hurt the church. Bishop Davis added that he feels as though the poor would be affected more tha ayoe else. He said of course, there are poor people i the church ad i that regard, he feels as though the church the would be effected. g See VAT IcreAse / page 2... PLP Questios GB Moey BY JAMLHA MISSICK The oppositio Progressive Liberal Party is questioig the allocatio of some $25 millio for Grad Bahama that was certaily ot a talkig poit i the 2018 Budget Debate i the House of Assembly. However the Party said the amout somehow made its way i the Seate whe the fiscal pla was debated i the Upper House last week. We are requestig that the govermet a l l t h w s y o u d t o r a d i t provide more details of their fiacial ivolvemet i this secret so called private public partership, says Party leader Philip Davis. We eed to kow the beeficial owers of the etities ivolved ad how this deal proposes to revitalize Grad Bahama, he said. Mr. Davis, said the party is also lookig very closely at the cocessios outlied i the ew Oba Deal; which it coteds is a scam, oly erichig shadowy figures the govermet refuses to make public. h M o r i G

2 Sectio A_Sectio A tues 7/5/ :15 AM Page 2 a2 atioalws Mixed Messsages O Boatig Icidet BY LICC BAStIA The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Deputy Leader is expressig serious cocer over how ews of Saturday s deadly boatig tragedy is gettig out to the iteratioal commuity. O Saturday Jue 30, a 38ft charter vessel with 12 people o board, exploded off Barrataree, xuma. I. Chester Cooper said sice the icidet, he has cosistetly fielded calls from various US ews outlets like CNN, ABC ad CBS, but have referred them all to the Miistry of Tourism s commuicatio desk. I believe there has started to be a fragmetatio of the message that s goig abroad. We see multiple commuicatios, oe from the Miistry of Trasport. We ve see commets from the Miistry of Tourism ad the Miistry of Health. I persoally believe there has to be a cosolidatio of the message so that it s a cosistet coveyig of what occurred ad what s beig doe to mitigate future circumstaces like this, Mr. Cooper said. Mr. Cooper, the MP for xuma, added that the mood o that islad is still somber almost a week after the tragedy. This will be a temporary momet Pastors xprss Viws o Vat icras g Cotiued from / PAG 1... Pastor of Bahamas Faith Miistries, Dave Burrows said that he will see VAT affectig the public, but as for tithes i his church, he does ot aticipate a declie. I would t aticipate that. I thik the icrease i Value Added Tax is ot welcomed by ayoe I kow. However it depeds o whether or ot it is absolute- ly ecessary ad whether it will achieve the results desired. Whe you look at the overall impact of it, the you realize that it s ot a sigificat impact to the average perso. I was just doig a calculatio ad if you sped $100 last week your VAT would have bee $7.50, this week it would be $12, Pastor Burrows said. Christia Coucil Presidet Bishop Delto Ferader recetly gave a similar commets. He said, the church is the people ad ot the buildig; the people that are Christia ad do tithig, do t see it as a tax. They see it as their obligatio to God. So those who tithe are ot i the majority ad they do it because of their covictio to God ad so they will take their 10 per cet out ad trust God to bless the rest. Coch Poisoig Outbreak g Cotiued from / PAG 1... Dr. Sads also added that i additio to the recet istaces, there may have bee more persos effected by the poisoig. He said, bear i mid that gastro problems ca occur for a umber of reasos ad so to ascribe a case would require cofirmatory testig. Based o historical iformatio, we ca say there has bee four cofirmed cases ad possibly as may as six more awaitig laboratory cofirmatio. Based o that iformatio we feel that this is sigificat eough evet the public ought to be iformed ad educated o. Dr. Sads said that the poisoous bacteria are t i the coch meat itself, but lives ad thrives i salt water. As a result, the Miister wishes to war all coch lovers. The Miistry is advisig that raw coch be cooked or if it is eate raw, the it should be thoroughly washed i clea fresh water rather tha sea water ad this will remove the bacteria from the coch. This is keepig with our stated govermet policy requirig coch hadlig sice the 1990s, Dr. Sads said. The Miister also advises that persos ask their coch salad vedors if the coch prepared has bee washed with fresh water istead of salt water before eatig. Whe igested, vibrio bacteria ca cause watery diarrhea, ofte accompaied by abdomial crampig, ausea, vomitig, fever ad chills. Dr. Sads added that usually these symptoms occur withi 24 hours of igestio ad last about three days. Severe illess is rare ad typically occurs i the people with a weakeed immue system. Persos who experiece symptoms are asked to visit their earest commuity health cliic. 45th Idepedece AIversAry - commad performace At UB 4 At a Commad Performace i hoour of artistic icos Patricia Bazard, Cleophas Adderley ad Roie Butler as The Bahamas marks its 45th Aiversary of Idepedece -- Goveror Geeral Her xcellecy Dame Marguerite Pidlig ejoyed presetatios by various atioal choirs, orchestras, ad dace troupes at the Performig Arts Cetre, Uiversity of The Bahamas, o Moday eveig, July 2, The Goveror Geeral is pictured seated ear Miister of Health, Dr. the Ho. Duae Sads, Miister of ducatio the Ho. Jeffrey Lloyd, ad Chairma of the 45th Idepedece Secretariat Mark Humes. (BIS Photos/Derek Smith) of reflectio to improve our game, recogizig that accidets do happe. We will discover that as tourism rebouded after eve more sigificat evets like the 9/11 icidet, people will travel agai. People will recogize that truly we are uppig our game i xuma cosistetly to provide the type of experiece for our visitors ad guests ad of course the buoyacy of the ecoomy for the residets of xuma as well, Mr. Cooper said. Newlywed Maleka Jackso was oe of 11 passegers o board the boat. Mrs Jackso died from her ijuries. Her husbad had a leg amputated. Sice the icidet, boatig compay, 4c s Adveture, is uder a cease ad desist order ad is preveted from udertakig ay operatios pedig the completio of a ivestigatio ito the icidet. Gamig Idustry Challeged g Cotiued from / PAG 1... Mr. Flowers added that there are very few optios that he ad other gamig house operators ow have. We ca go dow the road which we ve bee before i a legal term, to tie these matters up i court, or we ca do oe of the others, that is trim dow, streamlie our busiesses ad wait to feel the true impact as it relates to the customer s performace here, he said. At the ed of the day, this whole idustry is goig to deped o what impact does this really have o the customers; the idustry is drive by the customers, that is the egie of our gamig idustry. The other approach which we may choose to take would be to brig back fuds that we would have had outside, iject it ito our busiess at this itersec- tio ad hold the staff ad your etire operatios, ad that s oe of the positios FML had chose to do ad the wait ad see what impact this would have. We all realize that the gamig idustry has ever bee challeged like this before. Whether or ot it is goig to survive, I guess we re just goig to have to wait ad see. This is all relative to the midset of the people that brought us here, ad ultimately we the operators just have to take a wait ad see positio at this time. That s what I would recommed, of course other gamig house operators may choose to go i differet directios, he said. Mr. Flowers commets come as a guest o Love 97 s talk show, Joes ad Compay, where he ad fiacial experts Gowo Bowe, diso Sumer ad Philip Galais discussed the icrease i taxes.

3 Sectio A_Sectio A tues 7/5/ :15 AM Page 3 atioalws a3 4 Goveror Geeral Her xcellecy Dame Marguerite Pidlig atteded the Aiversary Celebratio of Idepedece of the Uited States of America at Liberty Overlook o Tuesday, the eve of 4th of July festivities. Pictured durig the gala from left are: Actig Prime Miister, the Ho. Peter Turquest; Her xcellecy Dame Marguerite Pidlig; US mbassy Charge d'affaires Stephaie Bowers; ad Commader/Uited States Norther Commad, Geeral Terrece O'Shaughessy. (BIS Photo/Derek Smith) amrica clbrat with th ag of Jazz BY tia thompso The roarig tweties - the golde age of jazz were back Tuesday eveig at the US mbassy s scaled dow Great Gatsby themed fourth of July celebratios at the residece of the U.S. Liberty Ambassador, Overlook. The time marked a period whe the America ecoomy soared, brigig extraordiary levels of prosperity i the years followig the ed of World War Oe i Oe of the two guests of orders was us Charge D Affaires, Samatha Bower, who elaborated o the theme behid America s 242d festivities. Amog the listed guests was Goveror Geeral Dame Marguerite Pidlig who reflected o the fudametal priciples the Uited States ad the Bahamas share. Bahamias have shared positively i the social, cultural, religious ad other aspects of political sys- tem; icludig servig rigorously i the armed forces... Also attedig the evet were Actig Prime Miister ad Fiace Miister Peter Turquest, Miister of Social Services, Frakie Campbell ad Oppositio Leader Philip Davis, alog with their immediate families. BY LAH CooPr DPM Givig Some Busiesses Grace Period BY LAH CooPr Joural Iter The govermet is givig some busiess owers a break i the wake of the ewly implemeted 60 per cet icrease i Value Added Tax. Fiace Miister Peter Turquest told reporters outside of Cabiet this past Wedesday that the reaso behid this was that some idustries are simply more complicated tha others. He said, So far the experiece seems to be goig smoothly. Some hiccups as there would be with ay chage, but by large we re fairly pleased. He added, There ate others that have log-term implicatios ad those we have give cosideratio to the tourism sector, isurace sector, ad cotractors who have loger term cotracts. We re makig some adjustmets to accommodate this particular issues, but so far so good., he said. As for the trasitio, the Deputy Prime Miister said that he leared about some cofusio with the Customs Departmet as it relates to tariffs. However, he assured that the govermet will iro out the kiks to esure that everyoe is o the same page withi the ext day or two. Bahamias ready for Medical Marijuaa? Mr. Turquest also spoke o the iteded deadlies for the grated grace period. He said, For breadbasket items they'll come i o August 1st ad the hotel idustry September 30th. He added, Those that have log-term cotacts while the rate chages o July 1st, we are respectig the cotractual relatioship. If they were booked prior to Just 1 we're allowig them to carry through with those cotracts. The Fiace Miister also oted that there has bee oe reported icidet of price gougig, however he says that the iformatio o the receipt was icorrect. Bahamia market ad research compay Public Domai yesterday foud that 66 per cet of 998 Bahamias believe that adults should be able to use medicial marijuaa. Public Domai released the results a recetly coducted survey which idicated that 62 per cet of the participats also agreed that marijuaa has medical beefits. Thirtee percet said that they somewhat agree, oe per cet said that they somewhat disagree ad 11 per cet strogly disagreed with the statemet. O the other ed of the spectrum, 47 per cet of the participats said that they believe the legalizatio of medical marijuaa will lead to icreased recreatioal use. The results also listed the reasos why cotributors thought that medical marijuaa should ot be legalized. ightee per cet thik that people do ot eed it will used the drug, 15 per cet say that it s harmful ad destroys lives, ad aother 15 per cet believes that the drug will be abused. Fifty-eight per cet of participats say that they obtaied their kowledge of medical marijuaa i the Iteret, while 25 per cet say that they leared from televisio. Whe asked to rak the most harmful or dagerous products, cotributors raked tobacco as umber oe, alcohol i secod place, sugar i third ad marijuaa i fourth place.

4 Sectio A_Sectio A tues 7/5/ :15 AM Page 4 a4 atioalws spotlight o bai Grats tow ThursAys 7:30 P.M. saturdays 9:00 A.M. LOV 97 host; rv. dr. c. b. Moss TH MOST UNIQU SHOW ON RADIO DON T MISS IT Got ws? Please call The bahama Joural s ews TIP lie at ad let us kow!

5 Sectio A_Sectio A tues 7/5/ :15 AM Page 5 ditorialws a5 The Rough Cut By Felix F. Bethel kate moss was Is A Idepedet ewspaper - Published Week days by The commuicators & Associates I Affiliatio With Joes commuicatios ltd. east st. orth - P.o. box Telephoe: Fax: Wedall K. Joes Publisher/Chief xecutive Officer Kimaley P. Joes Vice Presidet/Operatios Kate Moss died at oo! Thus Kate Moss was! They killed her. With this oh-so-cruel coicidece death-tiged story i mid, I submit:-- [ad as] fate would have it, I am directly related to the Beebee people, the Beeby people, the Moss people, the Deleveaux people, the Ferguso people, the Boaby people, the Boamy people, the Boimy people, the Sads people, the Adderley people ad of course, to Her Majesty the Quee of glad ad to Dame Marguerite Pidlig, Goveror Geeral of the Commowealth of The Bahamas ad of course, I uderstad that Nelso Madela was oe of my very may Africa cousis, related to me o my daddy ad mammy side ad sad to say, I ow remember Kate Moss, a cousi of mie who was mistreated ad killed o Crooked Islad i the log ago years! Ad thus, today i this forty-fifth aiversary of Bahamas flag-idepedece, I am remided that oe fie morig Cousi Kate at 7 o clock i the morig- was take to work i the field, where she died at oo. Kate was a domestic slave, ad is stated to have bee guilty of theft; she is also accused of disobediece, ad refusig to med her clothes ad do her work, ad this was the more immediate cause of her puishmet. O the 22d of July, 1826, she was cofied i the stocks, ad she was ot released till the 8th of August followig, beig a period of 17 days. The stocks were so costructed, that she could ot sit up ad lie dow at pleasure, ad she remaied i them day ad ight. Durig this period she was flogged repeatedly, oe of the overseers thiks about six times, ad red pepper was rubbed upo her eyes to prevet her sleepig. Tasks were give her which, i the opiio of the same overseer, she was icapable of performig; sometimes because they were beyod her powers, at other times because she could ot see to do them o accout of the red pepper havig bee rubbed i her eyes: ad she was flogged for failig to accomplish these tasks. I am also uderstadig that a slave-driver took her to the egro-house, ad agai flogged her; this time, apparetly, without orders from her owers to do so. I the morig, at 7 o clock, she was take to work i the field, where she died at oo. As I ow report: -- My cousi Kate Moss lived o the platatio of her masters, Hery ad Hele Moss o Crooked Islad. Kate Moss was a slave. She was a house slave. She was accused of theft, isubordiatio ad isolece for refusig to med her clothes. This agered the Moss s. They ordered severe puishmet for the isolece. Kate was shackled, locked i the stocks, to stad i a bet over maer, for 17 log days ad ights. O the 22d of July 1826, she was cofied to the stocks. Kate remaied there, util 8th August 1826, without itermissio. [The stocks were meat to break the will ad the backs of those cofied to them]. The oly time Kate was removed from the istrumet of torture, was to be beate. Day after day, Kate had red pepper rubbed i her eyes to stop her from sleepig. She was beate repeatedly by the overseers, uder strict orders from her masters. Over the days, she was further flogged by the uder-driver, aother overseer ad eve her ow father, who iflicted 24 lashes o Kate as she stood shackled i the stocks. After the 17 days ad ights, whe she did t seem to respod to more floggig, it was decided she o loger could be a slave i the house. Uder orders from her masters, Kate was take out of the stocks ad set to fields to labor as further puishmet. I the early morig, of the 18th day, weak, broke, dehydrated ad wracked with fever, Kate could barely stad, let aloe work. I the cotto fields, she was ordered to be flogged agai for ot weedig ad platig. The overseers stick raied heavy blows o the girl, as she fell for the last time, oto the dry dirt of Crooked Islad. Amog the weeds i the field, Kate died just a couple of hours later, just as the su was highest i the sky, at oo. Great God from Zio--- What a time! What a disgrace! Ad thus, I ca also report that: -- After her death that the fial, ad harshest of blows, were delivered by Goveror Lewis Grat. Grat was Goveror of the Bahamas for eight years, betwee 1821 to Grat, as it happeed, was away from the Coloy durig the crime i Crooked Islad ad trial i Nassau. Whe he retured, the aristocracy of the Bahamas, the fiest families petitioed Goveror Lewis Grat to have the covictio ad fie charged by the Courts o the cruel slave-owers, Hery ad Hele Moss to be overtured. Grat wasted o time ad wrote to Lodo to have it doe. Kate Moss, the slave, had bee cruelly mistreated ad killed, oly received small justice with the five moths priso setece ad the mulct, the 300 fie haded dow upo her master ad mistress. The Goveror Grat comes back to tow ad tries to have it all remitted. He tries to have the good ame of Hery ad Hele Moss retured by appealig to the highest level, the Kig of glad. I the official commuicatios betwee Dowig Street i Lodo ad Goveror of the Bahamas, Geeral Lewis Grat, Kate was titled as a domestic slave. The story, all but hidde i time, was reported i a ati-slavery publicatio i glad i The atislavery movemet codemed Goveror Grat for his iterferece i the course of justice. By the time hidde story of cruelty was published i 1829, Goveror Grat had bee promoted. He was ow Goveror of Triidad. Kate Moss died at oo! Thus Kate Moss was! They killed her. Great God from Zio--- What a time! What a disgrace! Grats Tow i Nassau, was amed i Goveror Grat s hoor. D I T O R I A L HLPLSS POPL Whe they said that they had a pla ad that they kew precisely how thigs would go for the people livig i so-called shaty-tows, we surely thought they kew what they were doig. this referece we make cocerig what ow appears to have become a hot mess of a problem ot oly for the Govermet ad people of the Bahamas, but also for a umber of Bahamias who ow face the very real prospect of becomig homeless. Ideed, we wodered about this pla from the get-go; this we did because we thought the ad do still wish to suggest that much of the curret admiistratio s ati-shaty-tow rhetoric ad actios are rooted ot i real cocer for health ad safety, but i a desire to curry favour with mass opiio, much of which is racid with ati- Haitia xeophobia. this is so very sad. ve more to the poit beig made, we are very sure that the Ho. Philip Brave Davis is absolutely correct ad o-poit whe he admoishes: -- You ca t just egage i political machiatios ad thik it is popular to say I m goig to get rid of shaty tows, but the at the ed of the day could you effect that statemet? Absolutely! But yet, we would also dare agree with a idea which is both poigat ad deeply pregat with truth to the effect that: -- Xeophobia ad uaddressed tesios betwee Bahamias ad people of Haitia descet have caused uregulated commuities to flourish this is surely the tap-root which feeds ito the efflorescece of such iformal types of housig arragemets; ad for sure, this source is itself deeply coected to some of the realities that come packaged i with the so-called cost of livig which is but the other face of resetmet ad exploitatio packed tightly together. As oe hapless Pigeo Pea deize explais: -- "We here because we get crush i here. You ca try ad get out, but they hate us so much they do't let us go o place else." Put succictly, they are caught as it were shut-y betwee a rock ad a very hard place; thus choice is costraied by desigs made by others ad thus, today these sufferers suck o sorrows. As they suffer what they must, others ot i their predicamet preted they do ot exist. What a awful mess i a so-called God-fearig lad! Makig matter eve worse has to do with what appears to us as but oe ogoig tragedy where so very may people who through o fault of their ow are beig left bereft ad who are ow fearig becomig homeless! this is happeig to them i this VAt+momet as the curret admiistratio presses o [regardless] with cleaig ad clearig them of their homes ad their spaces o God s gree earth. Here we referece ay umber of people, some of them bor ad bred-bahamias [of Haitia descet like so very may of their Bahamia cousis] who are ekig out a livig i a hard time ad i what is provig to be a very hard place, amely today s deeply challeged Bahamas. Sure seems as if these poor sufferig people are beig scapegoated! this we deplore; ad clearly, the same setimet is shared by very may Bahamias who are ow beig obliged to stad i mute horror ad shame as huma beigs whose oly wrog has to do with their cotiuig struggle to get up from uder. Iterestigly eough, very may of these shaty-tow dwellers are the very people whose sweated labour ow provides basis ad foudatio for the good life ejoyed by so very may others. this is that oh-so-ugly face of ma s exploitatio of their brothers ad sisters. videtly, this sad story is ot just that of these ufortuate people, but also this saga also belogs to the rest of those people who kow i their heart of hearts they are doig wrog thigs to these ear-helpless souls. I sum, the, the time is ow for the curret admiistratio to repet of this self-iflicted folly!

6 Sectio A_Sectio A tues 7/5/ :15 AM Page 6 a6 atioalws Miister Laisha rolle Meets with her Youth, sports ad CuLture team 4 Miister of Youth, Sports ad Culture the Ho. Laisha Rolle (at head of table) has a itroductory meetig with Permaet Secretary Nicole Campbell (right of Miister), departmet heads ad seior officials, durig her first day i her ew post, o July 4, (BIS Photo / eric rose) JAN AND MARCUS BTHL S FAMILY GIVS UB AWARD BY tia thompso The Uiversity of The Bahamas has secured a $100,000 scholarship called The Jae ad Marcus Bethel Award for its outstadig studets. Those studets would have a wide rage of beliefs, ideals, ad talets, are ecouraged to work, ad lear together, foster itel- lectual growth, refie their leadership skills, ad ehace their relatioship with the uiversity. The award is a uique scholarship afforded to UB studets at both etry level ad i third year of their degree. Former parliametaria, Dr. Marcus Bethel ad his wife Chatal Bethel are the official doors of the scholarship. The scholarship is amed i hoour of Dr. Bethel s parets, the fouders of Bethel Brothers Morticias ad Crematory. ach of the seve sibligs will be addig to this scholarship each year, ad it will be divided over a five-year period. Rubie Nottage says that the $20,000 will be distributed as such each year. It will be divided ito half of $10,000, oe half will be give to four studets at etry level- based o criteria of eed ad merit. The prime objective is for studets i eed to obtai these scholarships. The other $ 10,000 will be divided ito 1,000 awards for studets i the 3rd year of a 4-year credited course at the Uiversity of The Bahamas. Accordig to UB Presidet, Dr. Rodey Smith, the Uiversity is pleased to have aother fried ad UB paret cotribute to the uiversity s studets ad their educatio. He says that the Bethel family is creatig studets with a better world view, which i tur makes them better atio builders. This scholarship had helped UB to lauch a ew policy where all udergraduate studets at the Uiversity will be required to complete a study abroad experiece by the ed of their third year ad they will be required to complete their degrees at UB. This award will be icreased ad give to the wiers every year o July 4th.

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