B-Humane Award time rolls around again

Last week, I wrote about the unsung heroes, this week we are going to talk about those who are going to be recognised and who have been recognised.

It is very difficult to say thank you adequately. How do you hold up all of those who help and give of themselves in the most noble of ways to help the animals of this country?

Some 15 years ago, I became president of the Bahamas Humane Society, and one of the first things I did was create the Betty Kenning Humane Society B-Humane award. My objective was to start recognising those who went to such great lengths to help the Bahamas Humane Society and to help the animals of this nation in general.

This award has continued to be popular over the past decade and a half however, I must admit, sometimes it’s extremely difficult to choose between the nominees, because so many people do so much to help, assist, and recreate a happy life for broken, dejected, starving and forgotten animals .

The time has come again to solicit nominations for the various categories of this award:

The categories are as follows.

1: Nassau based

2: out-island based

3: international efforts

4: Bahamian corporate.

There is a fifth category, this is for Juniors who have gone and taken it upon themselves to do something either in rescue, socialisation or fundraising to benefit the work that the BHS does.

This Junior B-humane award is not necessarily awarded every year, but only on the years that there is one (or more) Juniors who deserve to be