Posts by Al Rahming

Acting on information received earlier today, Royal Bahamas Defence Force Patrol Craft P-44, coxswained by Chief Petty Officer Theodore Thompson intercepted a Haitian sailing sloop near the Exuma Chain Monday evening. The 40–ft Haitian sailing vessel was apprehended 6 nautical miles west of Beacon Cay near the top of the Exuma chain of Islands shortly […]

RBDF Photo shows: Media team interviewing Captain Adrian Chriswell, Acting Captain Coral Harbour during their tour of the coastline on board patrol craft P-129 on May 28, 2018. (RBDF Photo by Marine Seaman Wellington Ramsey) The Royal Bahamas Defence Force organized a sea trip for interested media houses today. Two Defence Force patrol craft P-129 and P-45, […]

RBDF Photo shows: A US Soldier taking a salute in the pouring rain as the Royal Bahamas Defefence Force Color Guard gives a general salute with the firing of weapons in honour of the fallen. Photo by Leading Mechanic Al Rahming Earlier Monday morning, on this US Memorial Holiday, a ceremony was held in honour of […]

Members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force executive and senior command teams debriefing  Commander Defence Force on the latest migrant incident, and the measures they have implemented to enhance interdiction efforts. Shown from Left: Senior Lieutenant Andrew Bowe, Commanding Officer, Harbour Patrol Unit; Commander Henry Daxon, Senior Staff Officer; Commander Shonedel Pinder, Commanding Officer Airwing; […]

The Royal Bahamas Defence Force congratulates 7 of its members, who successfully graduated from the University of The Bahamas on Thursday past at the Thomas A. Robinson Stadium. The graduates include: Lieutenant Natasha Woods (BA – Business Administration in Accounting), Petty Officer Deanna Davis (Bachelor of Education – Primary Certification), Leading Women Marines Stacy Ferguson, Michelle […]

Senior representatives of the Red Cross Society paid a courtesy call on Commander Defence Force, Commodore Tellis Bethel, on May 10, 2018 at Defence Headquarters. Mrs. Caroline Turnquest, Director General of the Bahamas Red Cross Society along with Ms. Clothilde Verzier, Delegate for the CARICOM States of the International Committee of the Red Cross paid […]

I take this opportunity to extend a Happy Mother’s Day to all Officers and Marines of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force, who bear the responsibility of motherhood, and to all mothers of members of the Defence Force’s Executive Command, as well as the Officer and Enlisted Corps on behalf of my wife, and myself. Mothers […]

The Bahamas Maritime Association’s (BMA) Chairman, Ms. Denise Lewis-Johnson, along with fellow board members presented the Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) Rangers Program with a cheque in support of the youth program. The cheque was presented by Dr. Shawn Thurston, a director at BMA, at Coral Harbour Base on Thursday past. Lieutenant Delvonne Duncombe, Director […]

Marines of the ill-fated HMBS Flamingo were for the first time remembered with a gun salute in military form and a wreath laying ceremony that included an array of dignitaries at Coral Harbour Base Thursday morning. Her Excellency Dame Marguerite Pindling, the Governor General of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas brought remarks. (photo gallery below) […]

It was 38 years ago on May 10, 1980 when the Royal Bahamas Defence Force patrol craft HMBS Flamingo was attacked and sunk by Cuban MIG jet fighters near Ragged Island. Four Marines lost their lives in that ordeal. Fifteen Officers and Marines survived that tragedy. On Friday past, 4 of those survivors, who have […]