2020 National Honours Remarks from Prime Minister – 19 November 2020
Your Excellency: I thank you and the staff of Government House for your hospitality. Ordinarily, the annual National Honors ceremony would merit a larger celebration. But, we are not living in ordinary times. We find ourselves in an unprecedented time in the contemporary Bahamas. The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the deaths or ill-health of […]
House of Assembly Communication – 18 November 2020
Mr. Speaker: I wish to provide the House and the country with a general update on the nation’s ongoing efforts to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recently, I announced restrictive measures for mainland Exuma, and mainland Eleuthera, due to exponential increases in new cases of COVID-19 on those islands. As of yesterday, the 17th of November, […]
Official Launch of the NNWC/South Central Community ‘We are One’ Campaign
Thank you Minister Dames. For our nation to become even safer, communities must play an active and coordinated role in crime prevention and community development. In our 2017 Manifesto, we promised that we would establish a National Neighborhood Watch Council (NNWC). Such a Council is designed to oversee and to promote neighborhood watch and community […]
Prime Minister Minnis thanks NGOs working with Government on Food Distribution Task Force as program prepares for Phase 2
Today Prime Minister Minnis visited the Lend-a-Hand, Bahamas Red Cross and Hands for Hunger feeding agencies as the NGOs prepare to start Phase 2 of the Government’s national food distribution program. The Prime Minister visited the Bahamas Feeding Network last week and on Friday completed site visits to the New Providence-based agencies working directly with the Government […]
Emergency Powers (Covid 19 Pandemic)(No.12) Order, 2020
