Bahamas News
CARIFTA GAMES BAHAMAS 2023 – MEDIA INVITED TO COVER THE CARIFTA GAMES BAHAMAS 2023
#TheBahamas, February 1, 2023 – The Local Organizing Committee (LOC) of the CARIFTA Games Bahamas 2023 is set and ready to host an exciting championship April 8 – 10, 2023. The event is expected to be highly viewed globally. The LOC is inviting local and international Media partners onboard to lend coverage.
Although the CARIFTA track and field championships is a junior level competition, Media covering this event will be treated to similar facilities and services as accustomed to at professional competitions like the World Athletics Relays.
Director of Event Media Services, Tonique Williams, has indicated that four of the seven Media areas offered during the World Athletics Relays will be at the Media’s disposable during the three days of activity. These areas include:
The Media Press Center, which will be a co-shared space with the Copy Centre. This space will be available for the Media to work their news stories and receive results. The Center will be equipped with high speed Wi-Fi, concierge
check-in service and timely results;
The Media Tribune or Press Boxes located in the spectator’s stands, with direct view of the finish line, offers the best seats in the house for journalists;
Trackside, just near the finish line, the Mixed Zone allows journalists first contact with athletes at the end of their competition; and
The Press Conference Room allows journalists to conduct interviews of top finishers and performers.
“We are preparing to host well over 100 journalists, photographers and broadcasters. There is a lot of interest from the regional CARIFTA community because these 2023 championships is the second CARIFTA championship since the opening of many Caribbean countries post pandemic. Additionally, this is the 50th anniversary of CARIFTA Games and the Bahamas – it is important that the significance of this very important time in history is captured in all its splendor and color.”
Tonique and her team are well capable of delivering a high quality experience for the Media. Tonique has served as the Sr. Director of Event Media Services for the World Athletics Relays 2014, 2015, 2017 and CARIFTA 2018. Her assistant Rudina Miller who has gained experience from serving in this area for the Relays 2015 , 2017 and CARIFTA 2018 joins her.
Media wishing to cover this event are asked to complete the registration process as soon as possible.
To make application, the online Media Application Form located at https:// www.carifta50.com/mediaapplication on the Media page of the CARIFTA website, must be completed. All applications must be submitted with an official letter of employment from the Media Outlet stamped by the national track and field federation where the Media Outlet is domicile.
Completion of the Application process does not automatically guarantee accreditation.
Once the application has been reviewed and approved by the LOC, the applicant will receive a link to apply for Media Accreditation.
The online Accreditation process opens February 6, 2023. The deadline to make application for Media Accreditation is Tuesday March 30, 2023.
Rashaed Esson
Staff Writer
#TheBahamas, August 5, 2023 – An American woman has been arrested in The Bahamas, accused of conspiring with two men, one of them alleged to be her lover, to murder her estranged husband.
The woman, 36 year old Lindsay Shiver and the two men, 28-year-old Terrance Bethel, the alleged lover and 29 year old Faron Newbold, were taken into custody last week following police investigation of a reported burglary at
Grabbers Bar and Grill restaurant on Great Guana Cay.
The police looked into their cell phones and found WhatsApp messages detailing the assassination plot to kill her husband.
The couple, who built a life in South Georgia have three children and are home owners on the island in the Abacos.
News outlets throughout the US have reported on the scandalous story, including that a nasty court battle over the couple’s reported, $5 Million dollar fortune and three children was underway. Shiver, an entrepreneur is a former beauty Alabama queen, her husband a former football player was an insurance executive.
According to US media, the husband, Robert, recently filed for divorce from Shivers after a decade of marriage upon discovering she had an alleged extra-martial affair with Bethel whom she met in The Bahamas.
While the husband claims infidelity on the part of his wife, the wife claims he was abusive.
The suspects Shiver, Bethel and Newbold appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Roberto Reckley on Friday July 28th. Their next court date is set for October 5th.
Rashaed Esson
Staff Writer
#TheBahamas, August 5, 2023 – The Bahamas is now facing an unfortunate reality as sexual assault has become and is a growing issue since 2023. Women and girls are said to be living in fear for their safety from these perpetrators.
The Royal Bahamas Police force has reported on instances of assault in press releases found on their Facebook page.
One report spoke of a 50 year old they were searching for after he burglarized a home and sexually assaulted an elderly woman, 82 years old. She was reported to be asleep when he woke and assaulted her.
This took place on Tuesday July 11th, 2023 at the home in the Centreville area of Nassau.
There is another incident that took place on July 17th, 2023 which the police are seeking in catching the suspect as they investigate. It involves a man believed to the perpetrator in for an armed robbery and sexual assault.
According to preliminary data, he approached the victim, a female, with a firearm, robbed her and sexually assaulted
her. He proceeded to enter the house and robbed a male and escaped. This happened in the Cowpen Road area; also in Nassau.
The assaults continue to grow in number as the police reported that they were investigating two other incidents that took place on July 24th.
The first had to do with a female, 30 years old who reported she was driving on West on Marshall Road when two men approached her after she slowed down near Faith Avenue. One of the males with a firearm, forced her from her vehicle and took her to nearby bushes where they sexually assaulted her after which they escaped.
The second incident involved à 32 year old woman who was sexually assaulted by a male known to her. It is reported that she was walking in the Fleming Street area when she accepted transportation from the suspect, who drove her to a dirt road off Gladstone Road where he presented a firearm and proceeded to rape her.
Furthermore, another assault, this time involving a 9 year old girl, was reported. As revealed by preliminary information, the victim was playing with friends outside where she lives on Saturday July 29th, 2023 when the suspect, a 42 year old male of Summerset Estate, driving a white Nissan Skyline, arrived and gestured to her to enter the car.
She entered the car after which he took her to an unknown location, threatened her and sexually assaulted her. She was later found somewhere in Spikenard Road; this also happened in Nassau.
Fortunately, he was caught and arrested for abduction and sexual assault on Sunday July 30th by officers affiliated with the Drug Enforcement Unit.
There are other reports of sexual assault throughout The Bahamas as well as rape and attempted rape during the earlier parts of the year, dating back to as early as February.
CAPTION: Women Leaders, including Ann Marie Davis, wife of the Prime Minister filled the gallery of The Bahamas Senate this week as members of the upper chamber debated the Protection Against Violence Bill 2023. The debate came just as the country experiences a spike in sexual assaults against women and girls. Photo by Patrick Hanna, BIS.
#TurksandCaicos, August 5, 2023 – On August 3rd, 2023, Premier Misick met with the Leader of the
Opposition of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas, the Honorable Michael Pintard. The discussion was highly productive, and they delved into matters of mutual concern between their neighboring nations. Hon. Pintard was accompanied by other opposition members, including Senator the Honorable Darren Handfield and Mr. Joshua Sears.
Group photo caption:
From Left to Right: Mr. Joshua Sears, Senator Hon. Darren Hendfield, Premier Hon. Charles Washington Misick, Bahamas Leader of the Bahamas Hon. Michael Pintard and Deputy Premier Hon. Erwin J. Saunders.
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