Re: I Miss Home

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Posted by ghost of fig tree past on February 12, 2001 at 10:34:04:

In Reply to: I Miss Home posted by Dario Armbrister on February 09, 2001 at 09:37:22:

Wow -- you're overdue for a tour. Come home soon!The board went up right after Floyd hit the island in the Fall of 1999, so that the island could coordinate hurricane relief. [Remember the protracted three weeks we suffered after Andrew, with the world wondering whether anyone had survived, and no one in Nassau knowing what was happening in the Out Islands ?] From there, the board just took off ... raising $30,000 to repaired local islanders' homes, brought in 5,000 diapers and bottles of baby formula for the nursery, raised money to replace the destroyed fig tree down sea, and raised money and books and supplies for the library and computer center.

Since then, we've been able to build out a community computer center on Harbour Island [March 2000], Bluff [July 2000], Gregory Town [October 2000] and Governors Harbour -- Palmetto Point -- Hatchet Bay currently underway ... all thanks to cooperative local government and donated computers and technical assistance donated via the Briland Board. Now that these centers are up and running, Nassau government and business wants to help us build more ... which is fine. We'd like to get them to Cat Island, Long Island, Inagua and Exuma, too. If we get the Out Islands wired, we can teach everyone HTML and web design ... and folks can work from Harbour Island [or Eleuthera] without having to emigrate to the States or Nassau to get a decent job.

As a result of all of the interaction, Naomi Percentie Fowler is researching the development of a recycling business for the island; Lyn Major up in Abaco has created the Every Child Counts program for hard-of-hearing and slow-learning kids [the program is up and running in all of the major settlements noted above]; the Courage Band is sporting a brand-new website, which expects to launch directly; we're in the middle of launching Radio Briland, which will feature music from the Percentie Bros., Charlie Lofthouse, Freddie Munning, Courage Band, Eleuthera Express and The Brilanders [the Funk Gang's new name, although they don't seem to be telling anyone!!!].

Kayla Davis is running the Harbour Island computer center, and her cousin Gail Davis is back at the All-Age School as Head Teacher. Miss Ling is running a tutoring program for Haitian boat kids up at the library. Jay Roberts is working for Cable Bahamas on Eleuthera now, which promises that North Eleuthera and Briland will have cable modem access by summer. Yeah, well ... they told us the same thing LAST spring, too .

Eddie Major took over Cookie and Cathy Ross' house beside the Harbour Lounge, and opened a newsstand, electronics, Cuban goods [cigars, leather, perfumes, crystal] and clothing combination store, and seems to be doing quite well. Lots of new stores all over the island now, up by the library and down by Mr. Bert Sawyer, too. Everybody and their mother seems to have a golf cart franchise these days, though.

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: Wow -- you're overdue for a tour. Come home soon!The board went up right after Floyd hit the island in the Fall of 1999, so that the island could coordinate hurricane relief. [Remember the protracted three weeks we suffered after Andrew, with the world wondering whether anyone had survived, and no one in Nassau knowing what was happening in the Out Islands <grin>?] From there, the board just took off ... raising $30,000 to repaired local islanders' homes, brought in 5,000 diapers and bottles of baby formula for the nursery, raised money to replace the destroyed fig tree down sea, and raised money and books and supplies for the library and computer center. : Since then, we've been able to build out a community computer center on Harbour Island [March 2000], Bluff [July 2000], Gregory Town [October 2000] and Governors Harbour -- Palmetto Point -- Hatchet Bay currently underway ... all thanks to cooperative local government and donated computers and technical assistance donated via the Briland Board. Now that these centers are up and running, Nassau government and business wants to help us build more ... which is fine. We'd like to get them to Cat Island, Long Island, Inagua and Exuma, too. If we get the Out Islands wired, we can teach everyone HTML and web design ... and folks can work from Harbour Island [or Eleuthera] without having to emigrate to the States or Nassau to get a decent job. : As a result of all of the interaction, Naomi Percentie Fowler is researching the development of a recycling business for the island; Lyn Major up in Abaco has created the Every Child Counts program for hard-of-hearing and slow-learning kids [the program is up and running in all of the major settlements noted above]; the Courage Band is sporting a brand-new website, which expects to launch directly; we're in the middle of launching Radio Briland, which will feature music from the Percentie Bros., Charlie Lofthouse, Freddie Munning, Courage Band, Eleuthera Express and The Brilanders [the Funk Gang's new name, although they don't seem to be telling anyone!!!]. : Kayla Davis is running the Harbour Island computer center, and her cousin Gail Davis is back at the All-Age School as Head Teacher. Miss Ling is running a tutoring program for Haitian boat kids up at the library. Jay Roberts is working for Cable Bahamas on Eleuthera now, which promises that North Eleuthera and Briland will have cable modem access by summer. Yeah, well ... they told us the same thing LAST spring, too <grin>. : Eddie Major took over Cookie and Cathy Ross' house beside the Harbour Lounge, and opened a newsstand, electronics, Cuban goods [cigars, leather, perfumes, crystal] and clothing combination store, and seems to be doing quite well. Lots of new stores all over the island now, up by the library and down by Mr. Bert Sawyer, too. Everybody and their mother seems to have a golf cart franchise these days, though.

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