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The Freeport NewsTHURSDAYDECEMBER 20, 2018 $1.00
EST. 1960/VOL. 58 NO. 222 Grand Bahama’s First newspaper http://thefreeportnews.com
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Thousands of food packag-es were packed and distributed yesterday, Wednesday, Decem-ber 19, to less fortunate fami-lies in Grand Bahama through Abaco Markets Limited (AML) Foods ‘Feed the 5,000’ Pro-gramme.
The initiative was carried out at AML’s Solomon’s Queens Highway location, in partner-ship with AML, Bahamas Feed-ing Network and other organi-zations to feed families for the Yuletide season.
Having completed a similar effort in Nassau this past Tues-day, December 18, the BFN team travelled to Grand Bahama to continue their project.
AML’s Marketing Represen-tative Daneisha Clarke, in an interview yesterday, explained how the programme formulated.
“We are having our ‘Feeding the 5,000’ distribution, which is an initiative that we started
three years ago where we try to help less fortunate families. We have partnered with the Baha-mas Feeding Network and the Bahamas Red Cross to give out food packages. And what we at AML Foods did was to pledge $20,000.00 and at the registers we encouraged our customers to also give to our cause as well. With that they were able to get $40.00 packages, which in-cluded chicken, ham, a bag of rice, two canned vegetables and stuffing,” explained Clarke.
She added that the organi-zations would then distribute the items to families in need throughout Grand Bahama.
Clarke noted that AML Foods was hopeful to touch at least 2,000 families with the initia-tive.
Questioned on customers’ response to lending a helping hand to the cause, Clarke said, “We were very impressed with our customers here in Freeport, they were really giving. Our cashiers really pushed the ini-tiative as well; some of them out-did themselves in terms of
asking customers to support. Our customers were even call-ing in, asking how they could assist. We really had a good response from our customers at Solomon’s Lucaya, Solomon’s Queens Highway, Cost Right Freeport. We also had an online Domino’s initiative … if per-sons ordered pizza online from
Domino’s they also had the op-portunity to give to the cause as well.”
Executive Director/President, Bahamas Feeding Network Phillip Smith, travelled to Grand Bahama and was intricately in-volved with the distribution.
“The Bahamas Feeding Net-work is truly a network, we
have over 100 organizations that make up our network of these churches, soup kitchens and feeding organizations. In Grand Bahama, there are about 15 to 20 of them, we have some in the Family Islands and then about 70 to 80 of them in Nas-sau.
‘Feeding the 5,000’AML FOODS partner with BFN and others to feed families
JAIMIE SMITHFN Reporter
FEEDING THE FIVE THOUSAND – AML Foods teamed up with the Bahamas Feeding Network (BFN) and other organizations to feed over 5,000 families for the holidays. The food packages, which included chicken, ham, a bag of rice, two canned vegetables and stuffing were distributed yesterday at Solomon’s Queens Highway. (PHOTOS: JENNEVA RUSSELL)
DANEISHA CLARKEAML’s Marketing Representative (Continued on Page 6)
While Bahamas Telecommu-nications Company (BTC) Lim-ited is well-known throughout the country for its telecommu-nication products and services, Garfield Sinclair, BTC’s Chief Executive Officer and Trevor Turnquest, BTC’s Vice Presi-dent, Northern Bahamas insist that not only is the company of-
Drug Enforcement Unit Offi-cers (DEU) in Grand Bahama arrested five males after they
were found in possession of a quantity of cash and dangerous drugs in four separate incidents.
Public Affairs and Commu-nication Officer (PACO), ASP Terecita Pinder reported that on Tuesday (December 18) short-ly before 8:00 p.m., Drug En-
forcement Unit officers while on mobile patrol, stopped a sil-ver Chrysler Town and Country van with two male occupants, who were found in possession of over $15,000.00 in U.S. and Bahamian currency.
The duo was subsequently
arrested after they were unable to give a satisfactory reason for having an excessive amount of cash in their possession.
In the second incident, officers executed a search warrant at a residence on John Rutt Lane,
Five arrested inseparate incidents
ABRIA COOPERFN Reporter
(Continued on Page 5)
BTC to roll out new infrastructureJAIMIE SMITH
GARFIELD SINCLAIRBTC, CEO(Continued on Page 3)
