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Royal Bahamas Defence Force Patrol Craft P-45 brought the 46 Dominican fishermen into the Coral Harbour Base shortly after 2:00 am Monday morning. They were apprehended in the area of Cay Lobos on Sunday morning by Her Majesty’s Bahamian Ship (HMBS) Madeira onboard a 70-foot steel hull Dominican Fishing Vessel ‘Ronnie’, with a large quantity […]

A US Coast Guard OPBAT helicopter spotted 6 Haitian migrants on the North shore of Inagua earlier this morning. Those migrants were airlifted to Matthew Town. Several additional migrants were found in the nearby bushes by the local community and law enforcement agencies, and Royal Bahamas Defence Force personnel following a combined search of the […]

Royal Bahamas Defence Force Marines apprehended a foreign fishing vessel with fishery products onboard on Friday afternoon within the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park. While conducting a routine patrol approximately one and a half miles southeast of Warderick Wells Cay within the Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park, Defence Force Marines assigned to the […]

A total of 46 Haitian migrants were charged before the courts in Nassau after they were apprehended in Bahamian waters on Tuesday past by members of the Royal Bahamas Defence Force. The migrants, (38 males, 8 females) all pleaded guilty to illegal landing before Magistrate Carolyn Evans on Thursday. Two of the migrants were repeat […]

Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) personnel attached to Royal Bahamas Defence Force Southern Command came to the assistance of the local community in Inagua early this morning to extinguish a fire, which destroyed a single dwelling house. After receiving information of a house on fire, HMBS Matthew Town detachment, led by Lieutenant Sidney Whyms, went […]

Over 40 Haitian migrants were apprehended off Eleuthera by HMBS Madeira, under the command of Senior Lieutenant William Sturrup, this morning. The conventional sailing vessel was apprehended approximately 20 nautical miles south of Bannerman Town, South Eleuthera. The migrants are currently on their way to the capital, where they will be turned over to Immigration […]

It was an historic day on the island of Long Island, as 54 students were inducted into the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s (RBDF) Rangers Program, following a Passing out Parade ceremony. The students represented the 2 high schools on the island, namely; the N. G. M. Major High in Deadmans’s Cay and the North Long […]

From the voyage of Christopher Columbus in the 15th Century, to the political movements that shaped the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, the Royal Bahamas Defence Force Band gave a magnificent showing during the 2018 Independence Beat Retreat. As the country prepares to celebrate 45 years of Independence, the marching bands representing the military and various […]