But she’s also a professor at Carroll Community College, with a mission to destigmatize mental health and uplift others. Mills, who lives in Baltimore County, was recently honored in the Bahamas with a prestigious national service award.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall Wednesday morning in Cuba as a powerful Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph.

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba overnight after battering Jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in Atlantic basin history.

Prime Minister Philip Brave Davis said whatever the outcome of Hurricane Melissa, The Bahamas would “rebuild” and “rise again”.

As the government of The Bahamas continues to refuse to acknowledge the sex- and gender-based killings of women and girls as femicide, it is difficult to count these incidents, analyse them, and develop prevention and intervention mechanism.