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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 17:39 |
 FREEPORT, Grand Bahama -- Big-hearted Freeport businessmen may be finding the economy tough but are still ready to help out those less fortunate than themselves.
Their caring attitude over the last five years has resulted in 150 deprived or otherwise deserving kids being given sponsored places on the island’s most popular summer camp – the Premier League Soccer Camp - to be held June 22 to June 26.
And they are keeping up the tradition this year, showing a strongly supportive community spirit despite tough trading conditions for many of them.
Businesses which have offered to underwrite places at the camp, aimed at six-to-16-year-olds, include Star General Insurance, Paint Fair, The Uniform Store, Records and Archiving Management, Care Maintenance, GB Tank Cleaning Company, Bahamas Hot Mix Co., Newport Construction, and GB Power Company.
“It is relatively easy to support good causes when times are good but, when people still stand up and are counted after a year or two of declining revenues or poor profits, it is really heartwarming. We are particularly delighted to receive the support of small companies which have smaller resources but big hearts nonetheless,” said camp organiser Richard Malcolm. “We would like to give 30 or so scholarships again but appreciate how difficult it is for businesses anyway and they are no doubt getting more calls for help than ever this year.”
The camp, which is being held at the rugby club in East Settlers Way from June 22 to June 26, offers its participants an outstanding package. In addition to 30 hours of top-level coaching led by legendary ex-soccer star Luther Blissett and vacationing pro coaches from the UK, they are each given two full soccer uniforms and a camp t-shirt, as well as enjoying a nutritious lunch each day and fruit morning and afternoon.
Completed registration forms are beginning to flow in. This year attendance is first come, first served, with the damage caused by arsonists at the rugby club meaning numbers are having to be strictly limited to 175.
“We don’t want to disappoint anyone, particularly previous attendees who had a great time and want to come back. But we have to be realistic,” said Malcolm. “It is hard not to be resentful as well. The retards who were responsible – who still haven’t been arrested by police – have victimised kids. Seventy-five per cent of those kids at every camp are Bahamians, many of them no doubt more needy than the arsonists themselves.”
Registration forms for the camp, available to download click HERE, from www.bahamasrugbyfootball.com; or by emailing
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, can be handed in during working hours along with the $175 fee, at Town and Country, Yellow Pine Street, or Animale, Port Lucaya Marketplace.
Distribution of uniforms will take place at the rugby club on the afternoons of Saturday, June 20, and Sunday, June 21, from 2pm until 4pm each day.
Companies who would like to help with sponsored places or anyone who would like further information about the camp should email
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Photo: This year’s camp colours modeled by three veteran campers. (Photo by Bahamas Weeky)
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By: Quincy Parker
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Tuesday, 26 May 2009 16:23 |
![Floyd Seymour [far left], Toureano Johnson and Erwin Johnson [far right] stopped by to chat with Deputy Chief of Mission Rhoda Jackson at the Embassy of The Bahamas in Washington DC last week. Johnson, a 2008 Olympian, was in town for training and advice from Seymour, himself an Olympic qualifier in 1991.](http://bahamaislandsinfo.com//images/stories/2009/wk-05-29-09/boxer-a.jpg) Bahamian Olympic boxer Toureano Johnson stopped by the Embassy of The Bahamas in Washington, D.C., to say “hello” while he was in town last week to get some training and some advice.
With Johnson were his father Erwin, and Floyd Seymour, who was himself among the first Bahamian boxers to qualify at the Olympic level – in 1991 – and who is talking with the younger fighter about his future.
Johnson did The Bahamas proud in Beijing, winning his first two fights and making it all the way to the medal round before losing a decision to the home-town favorite Hanati Silamu. Johnson placed fifth at the Olympics, and currently holds the rank of number five amateur boxer in the world.
“I did some good work,” he said of his Beijing bouts. “To be in to that level [was the] pinnacle of my career.”
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Thursday, 21 May 2009 08:09 |
 The popular triathlon series in Florida, the Publix Family Fitness Weekend, staged an event in Ruskin, FL, on May 9th which gave a young Grand Bahamian a chance to show his winning talents.
In a great battle of “young guns,” John Silvera, (Freeport, GB), and Santiago Correador were dead even out of the water. 10-year old Correador, - that’s right, 10! – took the lead on the bike, posting a 35:06 split, - 17.1 mph! However, Silvera just had too much on the run. The 12-year old hammered a 27:39 5K, and it was just enough to take a :20 second win, 1:16:19 – 1:16:39 in the under 15 age group.
The Family Fitness Weekend has seven more events scheduled for 2009 so we will likely be hearing more about this terrific young Bahamian athlete.
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Written by Ely Miles
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 11:59 |
 Hywel Jones has always been a great friend and supporter of Bahamas Rugby and his death is an enormous loss both to the sport and the people involved in it. Everything he did for rugby, he did quietly and without seeking acclaim.
Apart from his contributions and support* for both the Union and Buccaneers Rugby Club, he is also the man responsible for the first live (rugby) internet feed in the Caribbean, when he came up with the idea for the World Cup qualifiers in 2005. It is now standard practice in the region.
* Hywel offered financial help for the sport so often that it eventually became too embarrassing to ask.
Friday, May 22nd - 5pm - A Celebration of Hywel Jones' Life.
Location: New Providence Community Church on Blake Road. If you need directions, click here.
We'll miss Hywel - probably more than many people realise.
At the rugby tournament on Saturday (see below) there will be a moment of silence before the presentation of the Hywel Jones Player of the Year Award, which will be presented by Hywel's brother, Illtyd, before the final - at around 6pm.
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Submitted by Stuart Garner
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Wednesday, 20 May 2009 07:52 |
 FREEPORT, Grand Bahama -- The best youth soccer players on Grand Bahama are going to get a top-level challenge at this year’s soccer camp: “You think you’re good – well, prove it.”
In a new departure at this extremely-popular event, the best players enrolled at the camp in the view of the visiting coaches will be offered the chance to take part in small master classes aimed at fast-tracking their skills, and in the process enhance the level of the game on the island.
The two groups – one for boys and the other for girls – will be strictly limited to five or six players, and they will receive the undivided attention of soccer legend Luther Blissett for the last three or four days of the week.
Although Luther has been at previous camps he has always divided his time equally between all age groups and skill levels. This year’s new venture has been made possible by the fact he will be accompanied at the camp by not just one but two full-time professional coaches, who spend their lives training young people in the UK and the US. “That will free Luther up for more specialized work, “said camp organiser Richard Malcolm.
Blissett, who was born in Jamaica but qualified to play for England, which he did 18 times, achieved legendary status thanks to his prolific goal scoring at the highest level of the English game. He also coached leading professional players for years before giving up to devote his time to helping develop a motor racing team of all black drivers. He had already been a trail blazer for black sport by scoring the first ever goal, and the first-ever hat-trick for England, by a man of colour.
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Thursday, 14 May 2009 14:44 |
 The Federation of International Football Association (FIFA) congress 2009, will be held June 2-3 at the Atlantis Resort, Paradise Island. Pictured above, Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture the Hon. Desmond Bannister and Government and private sector stakeholders meet in preparation for the event. (BIS Photo/Eric Rose) |
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Submitted by Yvonne Lockhart
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 Nassau, Bahamas -- Stephen ‘Garbo’ Coakley, a veteran sports administrator who has ably demonstrated his ability to administer softball during his terms as President of the New Providence Softball Association, is seeking the presidency of the Bahamas Softball Federation during this weekend’s Annual General Meeting and Election of Officers.
Coakley, who led one of the most successful associations in softball, is prepared to bring this experience to the BSF where he also once served as a vice president and heralded many improvements to the sport through his dedicated and disciplined efforts for almost three decades.
“My immediate future sees me having more time to dedicate to the sport that I love and have worked to develop since my earliest involvement as a player and then administrator.
“I would like to continue these efforts as President of the Bahamas Softball Federation and to that end have visited all of the member associations of the federation inviting their support and sharing with them my plans for the further growth of softball,” said Coakley. |
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