Bahamas
Grand Bahamas Island – A Perfect Spring Time Destination!
Grand Bahamas Island is a perfect getaway destination. This beautiful island is located near the Atlantic Ocean. There are more then seven hundred islands, which make your vacations quite thrilling. The meticulous beaches and adventure sports satiates the senses of both adventurous and romantic people. Few of the must visit islands are; Abaco, Long Island, …
Bahamas brace for bad weather as Tropical Storm Humberto nears area hit by Hurricane Dorian – latest path, track, forecast, updates
Bahamians brace for another storm There’s more trouble for the hurricane-ravaged Bahamas. Tropical Storm Humberto is threatening Grand Bahama Island, creating new worries for more than 2,000 people living in shelters and those trying to rebuild their homes after Hurricane Dorian. As of 8 a.m. ET, the storm was about 30 miles east-northeast of Great …
Tropical storm Humberto will pass ‘very near’ northwestern Bahamas
The new storm system is expected to move “very near” those islands Saturday, bringing tropical-storm-force winds and heavy rainfall, the National Hurricane Center said. The Bahamas will likely see up to four inches of rain with some isolated areas getting up to six inches. Humberto is not expected to produce significant storm surge in the …
Bahamas brace for tropical storm as Tropical Depression Nine nears area hit by Hurricane Dorian – latest path, track, updates
Bahamians brace for another storm Tropical Depression Nine formed near the Bahamas on Friday and is forecast to become a tropical storm on Saturday, the National Hurricane Center said in its 5 p.m. ET Friday advisory. The Bahamas government issued a tropical storm warning for its northwestern islands — that’s the same area decimated by …
‘Trees snapped like toothpicks’: how Dorian laid waste to Marsh Harbour | World news
Veneta Collins remembers clinging to her children for dear life as Hurricane Dorian pulverised the Bahamas. “I was scared for my two girls,” she says of Occalia, 14, and Katalia, aged two. “Katalia kept crying all the time. She was peeing herself and saying, ‘I’m scared mommy, I’m scared’. Occalia wanted to cry but didn’t …
Bahamas: As evacuations continue, dozens of islanders were told to get off a ferry headed to the US
Over the weekend, nearly 1,500 evacuees arrived in Palm Beach, Florida, on board the Grand Celebration humanitarian cruise ship. All of them were properly documented to enter the country, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said. But on Sunday, a different story. In a social media video taken aboard a ferry boat leaving the Bahamas, …
Hurricane Dorian: Bahamas defends response amid criticism
Image copyright Reuters Image caption Thousands of people are being evacuated from Great Abaco to the capital, Nassau Bahamian officials have defended their response to Hurricane Dorian after it devastated parts of the island chain last week, killing at least 43 people. Residents on the Abaco Islands have accused the government of failing to provide …
In Bahamas, Battered Residents Ask: Where Is Our Government?
MARSH HARBOUR, the Bahamas — In the hours and days after Hurricane Dorian tore through the Bahamas’ Abaco Islands, the first government rescuers many residents saw were American. Coast Guard helicopters cut through the sky to evacuate the sick and wounded. The distribution of emergency supplies of food, water and medicine has been mostly coordinated …
Bahamas death toll rises as 70,000 are left homeless from Hurricane Dorian
The death toll, now at 43, is expected to rise drastically, officials said, as hundreds remain missing, buried under rubble on Grand Bahama and the Abaco Islands by the strongest hurricane ever to hit the archipelago nation. “It was like an atomic bomb went off,” said Sherrie Roberts, who survived on the Abaco Islands when …
Live updates: Hurricane Dorian’s aftermath in the Bahamas
In a story of how residents came together to save one another amid dangerous conditions, Jensen Burrows and d’Sean Smith — as well as a dozen other jet skiers — rescued 100 people who were trapped in flooded homes in the Bahamas on Tuesday. “They did a phenomenal job, not just with us. What we …
