Dear Editor, In recent weeks, North Abaco MP Kirk Cornish and Central and South Abaco MP John Pinder have both sounded the alarm over the explosive growth of the Haitian population on Abaco in the post-Dorian era. Despite the destruction of Pigeon Pea and The Mudd, with sheer determination and grit, the Haitian community continues
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AT a time when many persons on Grand Bahama are struggling, Elnet Maritime Agency delivered a full Christmas dinner to five needy families on Christmas Day.
Patrice Rolle, operations manager at Elnet, and her team provided a hot Christmas meal to serve a family of ten – two families in Freeport, and one family in Pinder’s Point, Eight Mile Rock, and West End. The initiative benefitted some 50 persons in total.
Mrs Rolle said Elbert Hepburn, president and CEO of Elnet Maritime, wanted to do something special this Christmas to assist families.
The recipients were the family of Agatha Bethel and the family of Jeffrey Patton, both of Freeport; the third recipient was the family of Jenny Baptiste of Eight Mile Rock; Mercedes Evans, of Bootle Bay, West End; and Anishka Lightbourne, of Pinder’s Point.