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It must be pretty nice to be Michael Gellerman right now. Heading into this past week's Final Stage of Web.com Tour Q-School loose knowing he already had ...

Fyre Festival was advertised as “the unparalleled best in music, cuisine, design and hospitality on a private island in the Exumas”—but according to patrons, the ...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – “Unprecedented” is how Tourism Director General Joy Jibrilu described the country's 16.5 per cent growth in stopover visitors this year.

Sometimes, a shift in perspective makes all the difference. I am 100 feet (30.4m) deep in a Bahamian sea, finning along a reef wall that plunges like a waterfall of ...

Q-School is a notoriously brutal endeavor. But the cards Cody Blick was just handed makes that endeavor damn near unplayable.

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 7, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- The Bahamas is enjoying a cheerful holiday season as the destination ends the year on a high note ...

Dec. 10 implementation for new shift system deferred NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Just one day after nurses throughout The Bahamas voted in favour of a strike, the ...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Florida — The Web.com Tour honored four tournaments, one volunteer and a charity at the PGA TOUR's annual Tournament Meetings ...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS - Unable to come to an agreement with the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) on a new shift system, nurses throughout The Bahamas on ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec 4, 2018--Whether you're a race fan, catching an MiLB Daytona Tortugas game or visiting the famed ...

Three Jackets competing for Web.com Tour cards this week.

AN American boy thought he was going to die after he was bitten by a nurse shark off the Exuma Cays.

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE BELOW. What began as a fun outing to swim with nurse sharks turned into a nightmare for one Utah family on vacation in the ...

November featured exciting new, products, and partnerships from around the bio-IT community from innovating companies, organizations, and universities, ...

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Fred Mitchell criticised Finance Minister Peter Turnquest yesterday for what he called “ad hominem attacks” against PLP ...

These airports let you squeeze in every last ray of Caribbean sunshine before you get crammed into an aircraft cabin for the flight home.

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Tourism planners and strategists at The Bahamas' Ministry of Tourism and Aviation have already planned ahead to ensure that they ...

The Deputy Prime Minister and his PLP counterpart yesterday traded accusations of “ineptitude” over which party is to blame for The Bahamas' fiscal crisis ...

Metal Shark, which manufactures aluminum and steel boats, has joined forces with the Bahamas National Trust to help preserve the Exuma Cays Land and Sea ...

So there's no competing with the WTA's incredible vacation photos from 2018, but luckily, the offseason is not a competition. While the women jetted to remote ...

Shipbuilder Metal Shark has partnered with the Bahamas National Trust (BNT) to support the preservation of the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park.

THE government still intends to build two new family island airports by way of public private partnership, Tourism and Aviation Minister Dionisio D'Aguilar said ...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Notice should be given to customers before the government embarks on seizing money from dormant bank accounts, an opposition ...

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said yesterday he was not worried about angry protestors who marched downtown yesterday, incensed by rising electricity ...

Alabama and Louisiana, USA-based shipbuilder Metal Shark has partnered with the Bahamas National Tru...

A new study by the European Commission finds that MPAs can generate an array of direct and indirect economic benefits – including jobs and business ...

In an effort to improve health outcomes for The Bahamas, the 45-day consultation period with stakeholders to discuss proposed changes to the National Health ...

Tis the season to grab the deals. I've curated a list of great ones -- but act fast!

Nassau, The Bahamas – In an effort to improve health outcomes for The Bahamas, the National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) launched a 45-day ...

EXUMA Biotech integrates BioAtla's conditionally active biologic (CAB) protein therapeutic technology with F1 Oncology's proprietary CAR-T technologies to ...

SHANGHAI and WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Nov. 13, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- F1 Oncology, Inc., a biotechnology company discovering and developing adoptive ...

A young Canadian author has taken one of his most exciting experiences in The Bahamas and has penned a new hard-cover book, "Pigs Of Paradise," which ...

Michelle Gibson and Shavaughn Blades, from Nassau, win the marquee Ultra Marathon, as the event receives high praise from director of New York Marathon.

Two men were arraigned in the Magistrate's court today in connection with an Exuma boating excursion that turned deadly back in June. Clayton Smith, 45, seen ...

#Bali, October 30, 2018 – Indonesia – On Monday, October 29, at the 2018 Our Ocean Conference, where representatives from nations around the world and ...

OPEN LETTER TO THE BAHAMAS NATIONAL TRUST:

#Exuma, October 25, 2018 – Bahamas – The Access Accelerator Small Business Development Centre has kicked off its Family Island rollout on Exuma, meeting ...

The Minister of Health will be the keynote speaker at this Thursday's Exuma Business Outlook conference, which will be held under the theme, Creating a World ...

Health Minister Dr. Duane Sands will be the keynote speaker at TCL Group's 11th Annual Exuma Business Outlook. Dr. Sands will be one of a dynamic group of ...

The Exumas, a set of islands in the Bahamas, is home to a beach that's happily crowded with families of pigs that swim. Video by EarthBeat.

If you're waiting to fulfill any life goals until pigs fly, heads up: There are swine swimming in the Bahamas already. A colony of pigs in the Exumas, a klatch of ...

The last thing Stefanie Schaffer remembers about her vacation to the Bahamas was a boat ride. She and her family were headed to Exuma for the day.

A colony of pigs in the Exumas, a set of islands in the northern part of the Bahamas, rushes into the ocean in hopes of food every time they hear boats motoring ...

THE young American dancer who became a double amputee as a result of the 4C's Adventures boat explosion is recovering in Massachusetts and receiving ...

At 3:30 yesterday CNN interviewed a man named Jeff Todd about a phenomenon called swimming pigs. Todd lives in his native Canada these days with his ...

AN Exuma water sports operator yesterday revealed it had suffered a “double blow” from the 4C's boating tragedy as it backed tougher enforcement to combat ...

#Nassau, October 3, 2018 – Bahamas – Board Members of the Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) presented the government with a report of their findings ...

THE Exuma tour company involved in a deadly boat explosion that killed a woman and injured ten others in June broke the law by operating a boat that was ...

By Travis Cartwright-Carroll. NASSAU, Bahamas — An investigation into the explosion of a tour boat in Exuma in The Bahamas in June that killed an American ...

Silver announced that it will now be offering year-round flights to two islands in The Bahamas: Great Exuma and Eleuthera.

Researchers at the Cape Eleuthera Institute (CEI) have been mapping the deep waters at the northern end of the Bahamian archipelago for many years, but ...

Sun Oil confirmed late Thursday evening that a pipeline leak is believed to have been responsible for the diesel oil spill which occurred in the Emerald Bay ...

Sun Oil yesterday said it had taken “swift action” to contain and remediate the diesel fuel spillage that contaminated the marina at Exuma's Emerald Bay Resort.

Executives at Shell Oil and the Emerald Bay Marina in Exuma confirmed to Eyewitness News Wednesday, that the diesel oil spill which leaked into waters at the ...

Nassau, The Bahamas – Sun Oil takes swift action to contain and remediate diesel fuel release at Exuma marina and commits to full cooperation to prevent ...

THE impact from the diesel fuel leak in Exuma over the weekend is going to be “small”, Bahamas National Trust Executive Director Eric Carey estimated ...

THE Ministry of Tourism and Aviation said yesterday the total number of international airline seats available to Exuma this year is “comfortably above” the ...

Bahamas sailor and CW senior editor Jen Brett shares her top five places to visit in the Exumas while on charter in the Bahamas.

There's a major new private island on the market in the Caribbean: Little Pipe Cay in The Bahamas, and it just might be the ultimate private island.

The latest potential home is a step-up from the usual, as it's a completely private space based on one of Exuma's 365 tiny islands. Little Pipe Cay is based over ...

THE Port Department yesterday moved to seize vessels owned by Four C's Adventures after it was reported the Exuma tour company had resumed operations in ...

Musically, the owner of Exuma Point Beach Bar and Grill has a legendary first name to live up to. It's a specal Bahamas beach bar.

FORMER Supreme Court justice and Exuma MP Elliot Lockhart has vowed to take the government to task after a video recording of him at an Exuma airport went ...

THE CAUSE of the fatal Exuma boat accident which occurred more than a week ago has yet to be revealed, Transport Minister Renward Wells told The Tribune ...

FOUR C's Adventures has returned more than $20000 in cancelled bookings since it was ordered to cease operations following a deadly explosion on its tour ...

TIRAN Jackson, the husband of the woman killed over the weekend when an Exuma tour boat burst into flames, has had one of his legs amputated, according to ...

EXUMA's largest tour operator, Four C's Adventures, has been issued a cease and desist order to suspend operations pending an investigation into the accident ...

Police are searching for an Exuma resident who was last seen on June 28, 2018. According to police, 22-year-old Jovan Amanda Sands of Forest, Exuma ...

POLICE SEEK HELP IN LOCATING MISSING FEMALE. Exuma, Bahamas - Police are seeking the public's help in locating 22year old Jovan Amanda Sands of ...

PLP extends condolences An American tourist female is confirmed dead after she succumbed to injuries she sustained during the explosion on the chartered ...

As of Tuesday, Little Pipe Cay in The Exumas is on the market, priced at $85 million. The private island in the central Bahamas was developed by Bahamian ...

The world's first glimpse of Great Exuma's spectacular ocean color was during the James Bond movie Thunderball in 1965. The Exuma Cays' turquoise water ...

The promoter of a failed music festival in the Bahamas was arrested on new fraud charges on Tuesday, leading a judge to order his detention.

#Exuma, The Bahamas – Monday June 11, 2018 – A joint operation in Bahamian law enforcement uncovered 168 pound of suspected marijuana and when the ...

A joint operation between police and Defence Force officers resulted in the seizure of $168000 worth of dangerous drugs in Exuma on Sunday morning.

Some 80 Haitian migrants were apprehended Monday evening by Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) marines, after receiving word of the illegal landfall ...

While design development in sailing continues to leap forward, what remains unchanged in our sport is the community which surrounds established class ...

Remember Fyre Festival? The doomed “luxury music festival” created by Ja Rule and businessman Billy McFarland, and hyped by supermodels that had the ...

A local hotel owner said she lost $136000 after spending her own time and money to feed festival workers.

A 70-foot sport fishing yacht was stopped and had its fishing equipment confiscated while attempting to fish in The Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, according to ...

Nassau, The Bahamas – February 20, 2018 ALIV, is pleased to announce that it has launched a brand-new store on the island of Exuma. The store is located in ...

Realtors yesterday warned that property tax valuations up to eight times' greater than market value are threatening to “kill” Exuma's growing second home ...

EXUMA is slowly climbing its way up the ladder to becoming a leading centre of economic activity. Like most Family Islands it is faced with problems surrounding ...

GREAT EXUMA, Bahamas – Sungjae Im became the 16th player in Web.com Tour history to win in his first start as the Tour kicked off its 29th season at The ...

Erik Compton talks to Tripp Isenhour about the impact the weather has had at The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay.

Mental fortitude will be required once again at The Bahamas Great Exuma Classic at Sandals Emerald Bay. The weather should not pose quite as much as a ...

Mississippi State alum Matt Fast makes a return from injury at our season opener in The Bahamas. (Hunter Martin/Getty Images). Field information as of January ...

Animal lovers, these swimming swines will make your vacation.

An island a day keeps the doctor away, and an ideal spot for a dose of tropical bliss is the Exumas.

By the Caribbean Journal staff. The venerable Peace & Plenty hotel on Great Exuma in the Bahamas has been sold, Caribbean Journal has learned.

Sailing charter giant The Moorings has added a new destination in the wider Caribbean region: the Exuma archipelago of The Bahamas.

Step onto the white-sand beaches of the Exumas — a chain of more than 365 tiny Bahamian islands and sleepy cays — and you'll be struck with the feeling that ...

The chain of 365 cays spread over more than 100 miles in the Bahamas, known collectively as the Exumas, looks an awful lot like paradise: Sugary beaches, ...

The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism released a statement in defense of Great Exuma, amid speculation that the island lacked the necessary infrastructure to host ...

THE Fyre Festival, a much-hyped luxury music event in Exuma with tickets costing up to $12000, has been branded a “disaster” and postponed indefinitely, with ...

The Bahamian government is investigating the deaths of more than half a dozen swimming pigs, after their bodies were found early last week. A draw for tourists ...

Bypassing the best beaches in Exuma is what tourists do each and every day for the area's most popular attraction, swimming pigs.

T here's something eerie about a ghost town, even one that doesn't seem to harbor any ghosts. Perhaps it's the sensation that only a thin veil of time separates ...

Laid out like a string of pearls along the eastern edge of the Grand Bahamas Bank, the Exumas are a breathtaking chain of idyllic, pristine islands with white ...

GREAT EXUMA, Bahamas — The phrase “the butler did it” takes on a whole new meaning on the island of Great Exuma.

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Adventures In Exuma -- Jacqui blogs and photographs her adventures on Exuma. She and husband Bill settle in to their new home on the island with their dogs and cats in tow -- Abbey, Cooper, Macy and Mercury...

This Old Boat -- Follow the travels of George and Jane as they make their colorful pilgrimage to Georgetown , Exuma on their boat Galena with various stops along the way such as Warderick Wells Cay, Staniel Cay and Black Point...

Trip Report from Sue and Mike - Some excellent photos and travel notes from Warderick Wells in the Exuma Land and Sea Park...

Seeing Exuma From Offshore - Trip report from the Nita K...

Exuma Salt - In 1788, Exuma produced more than 100,000 bushels of salt...

Kalik, Kalik - Chet Ramo from the Boston Globe provides a glimpse of what Junkanoo is like on Exuma Island...

Exquisite Exuma - Everyone knows about Nassau, Grand Bahama, Eleuthera and the rest of the archipelago 250 miles out in the Atlantic (not the Caribbean) east of Miami. But thankfully few of you have ever heard of this unspoiled little island...

Exuma, the Bahamas - The New York Time reviews Exuma. “On its unspoiled beaches, the only footprints are probably your own...”

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