The Welfare section of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force recently visited the Officers and Marines deployed at various outstations. In keeping with the Commander Defence Force’s intent, visits were made as it pertained to the well-being of RBDF personnel. This latest initiative was launched with to access the welfare needs and morale to those individuals […]
Today on Who’s Who Wednesdays, we highlight a young Senior Enlisted who has had to overcome personal barriers in her life, and is now performing her duties par excellence as a seasoned seaman on the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. Encouraged by her father to seek sound employment, Petty Officer Christina Rahming saw a notification in […]
Three Royal Bahamas Defence Force Marines were pleased to have been around and be of assistance to a driver whose vehicle slid off-road and into shallow waters Wednesday evening. Petty Officer Willamae Cooper was on her way from work shortly after 5:30 pm when she observed a pool of observers gathering on the edge of […]
The Royal Bahamas Defence Force is aware of video and audio messages circulating on social media that shows a private yacht off western New Providence, presumably disembarking passengers that may have been in contravention of Covid-19 Emergency Orders. The Royal Bahamas Defence Force responded to the video and boarded the vessel on Wednesday afternoon and […]
The Royal Bahamas Defence Force responded to a Search and Rescue alert after receiving a call around 7:00 p.m. Monday evening from the USCG who reported that they had in turn received a call from concerned family members reporting their loved ones on a boat missing. On Tuesday 21 July just before 10:00 a.m., HMBS […]
Defence Headquarters, 15 JUL. ’20 (RBDF): Commodore Raymond King and several members of the RBDF’s 40th Anniversary Committee, made good on their promise today to donate part proceeds of their fund raiser to the Bahamas Association for the Physically Disabled (BAPD). In a brief ceremony Wednesday morning at the BAPD Headquarters on Dolphin Drive, New […]
Today on Who’s Who Wednesday, we continue our series in highlighting individuals on the Royal Bahamas Defence Force who go that extra mile in making the organization one of the “Best Little Navy in the Region.” Chief Petty Officer Charles Rose enlisted as a Marine Recruit almost 30 years ago on August 20, 1990 as […]
Coral Harbour Base, 14 JUL. ‘20 (RBDF): As the country celebrated 47 years as an independent nation, the men and women of the Royal Bahamas Defence and Police forces were out on Clifford Park in solidarity to help mark the occasion on July 9, 2020. Globally, the world has accepted its new normal amidst the […]
Coral Harbour Base, 08 JUL. ‘20 (RBDF): Ongoing recovery efforts for a missing boater by the Royal Bahamas Defence Force continues after the American registered vessel ran aground a mile and a half of South Bimini on Friday past with 4 American crew members. Altogether, three key agencies (The Royal Bahamas Defence and Police Forces, and […]
Nassau Harbour, 08 JUL. ’20 (RBDF): Members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s Harbour Patrol Unit apprehended 3 males this afternoon in Nassau Harbour for failing to produce documentation for their vessel. While on routine patrol at 1:30 pm. Defence Force craft P-115, coxswain by Leading Seaman Mario Ramsey boarded and searched a 24-ft […]
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