By: Matt Maura Bahamas Information Services #TheBahamas, March 21, 2022 – The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) kicked off its five-day Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Basic Training Programme for residents of the Baillou Hill Estates community, Monday, at Chapel on the Hill Church Hall. The training is a partnership between NEMA and the […]
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This month, North Korea became the first major country to pull out of the Tokyo Olympic Games, citing coronavirus fears and not trusting host nation Japan to get its numbers under control before the July start date.
The Olympics is set for July 23 to August 8, in Tokyo, Japan – less than three and a half months away.
Here in The Bahamas, the representative body remains steadfast. Just seven Bahamian athletes have qualified for the Olympics, all in athletics, and two swimmers have attained ‘B’ cut qualifying times. Five years ago, a total of 28 athletes represented The Bahamas in three sports at the Games of the 31st Olympiad in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Bahamian playing cards created by Junior Achievement company BTC Glitch feature the country’s four prime ministers as king cards.
NASSAU, BAHAMAS After 15 weeks of learning the business ropes, a group of junior achievers was announced the winner of Product of the Year.
In third place for this year’s Junior Achievement (JA) was Bank of The Bahamas JA company “Vision”, with their “I Guud” COVID kits; followed by second place winners Commonwealth Bank JA company “XLeaders”, with scented hand sanitizers.
Four governors general are featured as ace cards.
However, rounding out the competition in first place was BTC JA company “BTC Glitch”, with their winning product Bahamian playing cards.
Bahamian playing cards wins JA product of the year
After 15 weeks of learning the business ropes, a group of junior achievers was announced as winner of product of the year.
In third place in this year’s Junior Achievement (JA) company program competition was Bank of The Bahamas JA company Vision, with its “I Guud” COVID kits; followed by second place winners, Commonwealth Bank JA company XLeaders, with scented hand sanitizers. However, rounding out the competition in first place was BTC JA company BTC Glitch, with its winning product, Bahamian playing cards.
“We realize that technology is the driving force in many areas of today’s society, but we wanted to bring back ‘the good ol’ days’ to The Bahamas, slamming dominoes and playing cards,” said President of BTC Glitch Camille Mitchell. “We didn’t want to do anything technological because of that being something everyone heavily relies on now. It’s a way that we can be more social and outgoing and comm