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VOLUME 16, NUMBER18 SEPTEMBER 15th, 2008

 

Dock for North Abaco is planned

Conch Rock north of Cooper’s Town will be site of freight dock

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The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham, second from left, was on Abaco on August 28 with a group to walk through the

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area at Conch Rock, the proposed site of a freight dock. The group is looking at a land plat with the proposed harbour. They are
Daniel Wilkinson, Senior Land Surveyor; Mr. Ingraham; Mrs. Michelle Bethel, who will be doing an Environemental Impact Assess-
ment; Mr. Benjamin Pinder, Administrator for South Abaco; Mr. Keith Bishop, marine consultant with Islands by Design; and Mr.

Benjamin Ferguson with Lands and Survey.

University of the West Indies
launches Internet learning

The University of the West Indies
launched its Open Campus in August,
making higher education available over
the Internet to anyone with a high school

certificate in The Bahamas and 11 other
Caribbean nations.

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The Economic Partnership

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The Hon. Zhivargo Laing, Minister of State for Finance, spoke at two town meet-
ings, one in Cooper’s Town and the other in Marsh Harbour, to discuss the proposed
Economic Partnership Agreement, a trade agreement with the European Union. The
Bahamas expects to sign on to the agreement. He is shown here on the left talking with
Senior Administrator Cephas Cooper and Deputy Chairman of the Marsh Harbour
Town Committee, Mr. Colon Curry. See story on page 2.

North Abaco will have a new port and
marina facility. The Prime Minister, the
Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham, made a quick
trip on August 28 with consultants to walk
the area that has been selected for the port.
It will be a short distance north of Coo-
per’s Town. Mr. Ingraham realizes that the
residents of Cooper’s Town have no safe
harbour or convenient area for their boat-
ing activities. And he wants freight boats
to be able to off-load freight in the north to
keep the residents from having such high
trucking costs on all their freight when it is
off-loaded in Marsh Harbour.

The port area will be about 45 acres
entirely inland. Preliminary plans indicate
that the facility will include a boat yard for
dry storage, a small marina, a ramp for
launching small boats, a fuel dock and sev-
eral slips for boats up to 120 feet long.

The area for freight boats will include
two roll-on, roll-off ramps, a warehouse
and a port administration building and a
secure area for containers. The administra-
tion building will include offices for Cus-
toms, Immigration and other governmental
offices. The plans show a 400-foot turning
basin.

The residents of North Abaco have
wanted to have a facility of this type for
a long time as the area around Cooper’s
Town has no natural harbour.

A government notice relative to the ac-
quisition of this land may be seen on page
19.

Notice to students planning
to attend schools in Canada

The Office of the Deputy Prime Minis-
ter and Ministry of Foreign Affairs wishes
to advise that Bahamian students who are
expecting to attend colleges or universities
in Canada should not travel to that country
unless they are in possession of the prop-
er authorization from the Canadian High
Commission in Kingston, Jamaica.

   
   

Fire guts Dundas Town home

If they arrive in Canada without the
relevant documentation, they will not be
allowed to enter Canada.

It is recommended that students con-
tact their college or university and request
they hold their place while their letters of
authorization are being processed.

A fire on September I gutted the interior of the home of Viola Johnson off Forest Drive
in Dundas Town. The structure was fully engulfed in flames by the time the Marsh
Harbour Volunteer Fire Department could get to the scene. With three trucks they were
able to subdue the fire quickly. Ms. Johnson was in church at the time of the fire.