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
CLERMONT, FL| Bahamas Press is reporting the passing of
Sir Franklyn Wilson’s nephew last evening in the community of Clermont Florida, a 25 minute drive out of the Orlando Orange County area.
The accident involving
Orlando Albury Jr. occurred just after 8pm in the Disston Ave section of Clermont. It was a motorcycle crash along with an SUV.
Police blocked the road between East Desoto Street and East Osceola Street and diverted traffic around the area.
The 33-year-old lived and worked in the city for the local government there first in its water distribution utilities division, and just recently, he transferred into the city’s sanitary collections utility division. He joined the company in December 16th, 2019