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2007

orth Abaco Festival Featured Power Boats

Racing speed boats fascinated crowds on shore

 

Speed boats from Grand Bahama, Nassau and the United States competed and showed off their power to hundreds gathered at the
ferry landing at Treasure Cay on July 19-22 as the North Abaco Festival and Power Boat Races enjoyed its second year. More

boats, more people and more enthusiasiam characterized the festival.

Immigration
cracks down on
illegal immigrants

By Samantha V. Evans

Abaco Immigration Department, under
the leadership of Supt. Spence Dorsett, has
initiated a number of projects to execute
the policies of the department. Recently,
they started to stage sustained pick-ups
and patrols (as much as possible) at bus
stops and boat stops to let the new illegal
immigrants know that immigration is still
here on the island. Mr. Dorsett stated that
there are a lot of new immigrants on the
island, many of whom have already joined
the workforce.

Even though the work load they have is

 

 

its equipment into the park area.

Please see Immigration Page 4

Summer campers explore fire truck

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T he police Wage a summer uh program ei The third year. 7 hey aed aed in
a variety of topics, but mostly the children enjoyed games, sports and field trips. This
year children from North Abaco and South Abaco came to Central Abaco where they
were all together for the four weeks of the program. See story on page 25.

By Julian Lockhart

Ozzie Dames came to put on a show,
and he definitely impressed the crowd as
he dominated the 2nd Annual North Abaco
Summer Festival and Power Boat Associa-
tion Race in his 36-foot Scarab on July 21.
Mr. Dames was just one of the representa-
tives from the Grand Bahama Powerboat
Association who made the trip over to
Treasure Cay to participate in the power
boat race as he competed in the inboard
class. Racing Gunslinger, Mr. Dames
proved to be too much for the rest of the
fleet. Despite starting after everyone else,
Mr. Dames was still able to lap everyone,
and the fans knew whom they came to see
as they cheered him on with each lap. Mr.
Dames exclaimed, “It feels great to come
over here and dominate. I did expect to
dominate and just take a look (he pointed
to his two chrome engines) and you can see
why. Everybody started in front of me and

Please see Festival Page 2

eeombey Park is threatened

 

Goombay Park, located between the oy dock in Marsh Harbour and ihe propery of A nds Cio: has been a gathering
place for festivals, parites, concerts and Junkanoo celebrations for the past six years. Funding from the business community and
government has gradually improved the park. This year alone Marsh Harbour has invested more than $30,000 in improvements
to the park. These included a $20,000 donation by Baker’s Bay for a roof for the stage, Hardyboard siding for the 10 stalls, and
a donation by J & J Electric for globe lighting for each hut. Recently Carib Freight has moved several of the stalls and is moving

F. Gottlieb is Chairman of BEC

By Mirella Santillo

On July 2nd Mr. Frederik Gottlieb was
appointed Chairman of the Bahamas Elec-
tricity Corporation by the Prime Minister,
the Rt. Hon. Hubert Ingraham. The ap-
pointment came at a time when the profit-
ability of the corporation, which had been
historically profitable, has been under-
mined for a number of different factors.

Asked what were his goals and chal-
lenges as new Chairman of BEC, Mr. Got-

tlieb stated that his goal was to continue to
fulfill the corporation’s mission which is
to provide safe, reliable and cost effective
supply of electricity while generating suffi-
cient income to recover all costs including
debt service and to augment reserve funds
and self-finance a significant number of the
corporation’s capital projects.

Please see Gottlieb Page 5

 

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