Donation of $50,000 to the Bahamas Reef Environment Educational Foundation (BREEF) allows the non-profit organization to create a position of Research and Field Conservation Officer. Pictured: Demian Chapman, visiting from Stony Brook University Institute for Ocean Conservation Science School of Marine and Atmospheric Science (left), and Casuarina McKinney-Lambert, executive director, BREEF. (photo courtesy of BREEF)

Since its establishment by an act of Parliament in 1983, the Bahamas Mortgage Corp has been an integral part of the economy of The Bahamas, granting government guaranteed loans to low to middle income persons and families for the purchasing of government built homes.