Located in the archives, The Freeport News article covering former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham's announcement granting Grand Bahama's first independent radio license to Cay Gottlieb & Dave Mackey. This license was for the radio station now known as COOL96. In the end the license was issued to Cay Gottlieb's company Dovoro Ltd. Web master Dave Mackey ended up outside of this arrangement and moved on, taking up the position of manager of Bahamas national radio station 100JAMZ Grand Bahama operations. Click here or on the image to view and read this historical article covering the forth independent radio license granted by former Prime Minister The Hon. Hubert Ingraham, the leader that ushered in to being private broadcasting to the Commonwealth of the Bahamas.

Veronica Bishop: Now dubbed  the " Bahamian Diva",  has returned with a second solo album entitled;  "The Other Woman". Here, Veronica shows off her song writing abilities for first the time. The central theme of this album is the encouragement of  women. The no.2  song on the album; "Man will make you lose your dignity" some what sets the tone of this album. Veronica achieves her aim both in hard driving rhythmic dance concoctions and in slow sultry love ballads like "Blind Love" . This album expresses Veronica's diverse vocal talents and the lyrical content seems to chronicle some of  Veronica's real life experiences.

Destination Grand Bahama update - Three weeks following the visit of hurricane ‘Wilma' on October 23rd, the Grand Bahama community's restoration efforts are well underway and the return to normalcy is evident. The tourism infrastructure continues to meet the needs of the market and resorts continuing to offer quality vacation experiences. All but few of the more than sixty visitor attractions, activities and tours are available daily. Due to the effects of the recent storm a small number of rooms are temporarily unavailable at some properties including some located along the southwestern coast of the island. .Four days following ‘Wilma's' brief visit, Grand Bahama hosted thirty-five meeting planners, as well as hundreds of jazz festival enthusiasts. To read Terrance Roberts entire comprehensive update click here or on his picture.