\nThe award ceremony, which was preceded by a delicious lunch, presented awards in three web site categories; tourism, non-tourism and government-civic, for both the People’s Choice Awards and the Judge’s Selections Awards. The People’s Choice Award winners were selected by the web community at large through an online voting system. The Judge’s Selection Winners were carefully chosen by a panel of distinguished judges including Mr. Roberts, Basil Smith – Director of Communications for the Bahamas Ministry of Tourism, Jassin Yacks – a US-based graphic designer and web developer, Larry Smith – President of Media Enterprises and Dr. Gilbert Morris – Executive Director of the Landfall Centre.<\/p>\n The winners of the Judge’s Selection Awards were: The Nassau Institute<\/a> (Goverment-Civic Category), Thyme Online<\/a> (non-Tourism Category) and Tiamo Resorts<\/a> (Tourism Category).<\/p>\n \nMike Hartman, President of Tiamo Resorts, accepted the Best of the Bahamas Award sculpture from Mr. Roberts himself. Tiamo Resorts also walked away with the Judge’s Award in the Tourism Category. <\/p>\n \nGuest speaker Brian Nutt, President of the Bahamas Employers Confederation, was delightfully surprised to receive the first annual Hall of Fame Award for his outstanding contributions to the Bahamian Web industry. (Click here<\/a> to read the full text of Mr. Nutt’s excellent speech.)<\/p>\n \nThe Second Annual Bahamas Web Awards were sponsored by The Bahamas Portal<\/a> – BahamasB2B.com, Benelda.com Web Design<\/a>, The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism<\/a>, Cable Bahamas’ Coralwave<\/a> and The Bahamas Hotel Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n \nBahamas B2B thanks every site that entered and the many people and companies who helped make this year’s contest a success. The quality of the web sites that were entered into the contest this year made judging difficult. In the non-Tourism category especially, it was an extremely close competition with Island Living Real Estate<\/a>, Honda Bahamas<\/a>, HG Christie Ltd.<\/a> and Oceanic Bank<\/a> all less than a percentage point away from the winner, Thyme Online.
\nThe Bahamas Web Awards<\/a> is the leading national honour for the best among Bahamian web sites. There were 42 sites entered into this year’s contest.<\/p>\n
\nThe winners of the People’s Choice Awards were: Bahamas Conference of Seventh-day Adventists<\/a> (Goverment-Civic Category), the Miami Dolphins Bahamian Website<\/a> (non-Tourism Category), and Eleuthera Homesite<\/a> (Tourism Category). The Overall Winner of the People’s Choice Award was Eleuthera Homesite.<\/p>\n
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