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GB family mourns loss of slain woman
Numb with grief, Veronica Smith's mother found it hard yesterday to bring the words out to describe her slain daughter as she sat in a love seat with her head tilted in her hand.Lorraine Thomas had only learned six days ago her daughter was missing after getting an uneasy feeling that something was terribly wrong.
Veronica, 26, was weighing heavily on her heart when she woke up that morning. She began to pray and decided to call her daughter at work.
Brianne, as she was affectionately called by her middle name, had grown up in Grand Bahama, graduated from St. Georges High and moved to New Providence about four years ago to further her education.
After completing two years of studies in chemistry at College of The Bahamas, she began working and had eventually moved in with a co-worker.
'Don't tip' The Bahamas – An inquiry into the economics of LNG
Well, the 'pros and cons' of the development of a Bahamian LNG industry are again being discussed. Such being the case, it is not unreasonable for one, who has already had much to say about this matter to make a further contribution to the contemporary debate.Now the position of the writer with regard to LNG, as revealed in former documents, is well known he holds tenaciously to the thesis that a well managed LNG industry, with the appropriate safeguards, can prove to be a source of tremendous economic benefit to the people of The Bahamas, without causing damage to the ecology and "the clean, green pristine" beauty of these Islands.
It is therefore, not necessary "to go over the ground already covered" in them. Then concentration will be upon the economic aspects, especially potential revenue to the Government of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, recruitment, training and protection of Bahamian employees.
News briefs for August 30
ALLEGAN/PLAINWELL: A Plainwell couple killed last week in a plane crash near Ormond Beach, Fla., will be remembered Thursday during a service at Richland Bible Church in Richland. Ward T. and Barbara Walter were en route Friday from Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport in a Mitsubishi MU-2 airplane to a vacation home in Eleuthra Island, the Bahamas, when their plane crashed. Visitation for the Walters is 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday at Life Story Funeral Home in Plainwell. The service at Richland Bible Church follows at 6 p.m. The plane was registered to Drug & Laboratory Disposal Inc., a Plainwell waste-disposal firm founded by Ward Walter in 1977. ADA/CASCADE: Cascade Township officials believe there are about 144 potential sites built between 1820 and 1916 with local historical significance.
Land use manual urged
An environmentalist is calling on the government to introduce a land-use manual to protect the country's fragile environment, especially wetlands in Andros.Margo Blackwell, a guest on Sunday Conversations, an Island FM radio talk show, said that despite Andros being the largest island in The Bahamas its land must still be carefully used, and protected as necessary.
Mrs Blackwell heads the Bahamas Environmental Research Centre in Andros.
She said that, "Andros is huge and big and we all brag about it being the fourth largest island in the Caribbean...The bottom line is at least two thirds of Andros is wetlands connected from the east to the west, and so you don't have useable land. That's one of the issues that we have to be very careful about.