Carole I. Barnett

Carole I. Barnett is employed at the Bahamas Telecommunications Corporation as a Collections Officer. This multi-talented woman of the 21st century has designed sports, leisure and evening wear for past Miss Commonwealth Bahamas winners to compete in the Miss World Pageant. She is not only a well known sought after full-figured model in the country but serves as a part-time protocol officer for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a capacity in which she has attended to dignitaries such as Queen Elizabeth II and Nelson Mandela.

Carole has commentated at numerous fashion shows around the island and has worked closely with DAG & Associates in producing the past Miss Commonwealth Bahamas Beauty Pageants.

Jerome Sawyer
News Director 102.9 Island FM

Mr. Sawyer, born Feb. 14th 1972, is a 1988 graduate of St. Anne's High School in Nassau.

In 1992 he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, N.C. He is currently the News Director at Island FM 102.9, the newest private radio station in The Bahamas. Mr. Sawyer is responsible for establishing the news and current affairs department at that station. He oversees all news gathering and reporting activities, and is the prime time anchor for the station's "Evening Edition" - which airs daily at 6pm. Prior to this position, he served as a news editor, anchor, and reporter with the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas (ZNS).  

During his illustrious 8 year career with the BCB, Mr. Sawyer had an extensive anchoring background on television and radio. He covered major national events & celebrations... state visits, national disasters and elections. As a reporter, he has travelled extensively on local, regional and international assignments. He has had the opportunity to meet and interview such notables as former south African President Nelson Mandela, Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Ted Turner, Oprah Winfrey and Natalie Cole - to name a few. In 1995, Mr. Sawyer was part of a Bahamian delegation to visit Haiti - during operation "Restore Democracy" and for the signing of an historic repatriation agreement. In 1999, Sawyer became the first Bahamian to win a CNN WORLD REPORT AWARD, for the "BEST POLITICAL STORY OF 1998." He has also been honoured by the Pan Hellenic Council of fraternities and sorrorities with a Distinguished Citizens Award. He is also the Bahamian recepient of a fellowship to attend the Mashave Workshop on Media Strategies for Community Development & Social Change, Haifa, Israel in 2000. In 1999, Sawyer was also a participant in the CNN International Professionals Program. Memeberships include: Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, Alpha Epslion Rho Broadcasting Society - Bahamas Press Club, Caribbean Leadership Group (CSIS).

Phyllis Albury-Garraway

When it comes to fashion in The Bahamas, no one is more sought after than the celebrated icon Phyllis Joy-Anne Albury-Garraway. Her mother, Florence Lockhart, a well know seamstress, is known for her designs in the seven-way island dresses so popularized in the early 1970's.

An alumni of St. Augustine's College in Nassau, Phyllis received her Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Ryerson in Toronto, Canada.

Over the years, Phyllis has traveled the world promoting the locally produce fabric and designs by Androsia for The Bahamas for The Ministry of Tourism.  She has modeled and commentated in cities such as New York, Los Angeles, London, Toronto and Bermuda, touting the slogan "It's Better In The Bahamas."

As the former fashion editor for the in-flight Goombay Magazine for the National Flag Carrier Bahamasair, she had the opportunity to expose visitors via print to island fashions by notable Bahamian designers such as Florence Lockhart, Brynda Knowles, Percy Wallace, and Sabrina Francis.

Phyllis is no stranger to the glamorous world of modeling as she has graced the pages of  international magazines such as Jet and Vogue. She has imaged and chaperoned many past Miss Commonwealth Bahamas Beauty Queens when they represented the Country at the coveted Miss World contests.  She also commentated The Miss Commonwealth Bahamas Beauty Pageant local contest for over nine years.  It is here that the promoters for "Weddings For Us", an annual bridal show held in Atlanta, Georgia discovered Phyllis.  Phyllis, now commentates their annual event that attracts over three thousand persons each year.

Phyllis is married to Peter Garraway and she's also the co-owner of Yodephy Dance and Modeling Academy, an institute of grooming and training for young Bahamians.

Gina Theresa Andre Rogers was educated at St. Anne's Primary School and Queen's College High School before attending Cranborne Chase Boarding School for Girls in /Wiltshire, England. Her Higher education was obtained at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California and California State University, where she obtained a Bachelor's Degree in Recording Engineering with a Minor in Business Management.

Before returning to The Bahamas Ms. Rodgers spent 13 years in Los Angeles, California working extensively in the movie and television industry in Hollywood. She was apart of an internship program which afforded her the opportunity to work in a number of Hollywood movie studios. Firstly, with MGM/UA (Metro Goldwyn Mayer/United Artists) where she was employed as a production accountant; during the internship she also worked at Paramount Pictures and Universal Studios. Ms. Rodgers was employed for five years as the business manager of the video graphics department at KABC, Channel 7 in Hollywood, California, where she worked exclusively on ABC's major projects, namely the Oprah Winfrey show, the Winter Olympics and the Academy Awards.

She is presently employed as a senior reporter at the Broadcasting corporation of the Bahamas, where she says she is particularly proud of the work she has done on HIV/AIDS. She is a member of the AIDS Secretariat Resource committee and has attended HIV/AIDS conferences in Switzerland, South Africa, Florida , Barbados, New York and Jamaica. she was the recipient of the Pan American Health Award for the best television story on AIDS in 1996.

Ms. Rogers also considers herself an avid hurricane chaser and is a proud member of Roots Junkanoo Group.

She says that the name Gina comes from the Greek name "Angelina" which means angel or messenger. Gina says that is by no accident that she has found her calling in reporting, "It is what I have been put on earth to do."