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05172024 EDITION

Friday, May 17, 2024

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‘Vexatious litigation’ delayed rescue of starving dolphins

AGRICULTURE and Marine Resources Minister Jomo Campbell defended government’s efforts to rescue five dolphins from Blackbeard’s Cay.

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‘One-stop solution’ to BPL woes re-floated

A “quick one-stop solution” for The Bahamas’ energy crisis was yesterday re-floated by a local attorney who argued it could resolve cost, reliability and environmental woes “within months”.

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‘Absolutely insane’: Ex-health minister blasts $290m hospital

A former health minister yesterday blasted the proposed $290m new hospital as “an absolutely insane idea” and challenged why the cost has risen more than five-fold under the Davis administration.

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North Eleuthera hit by 34-hour BPL outage

Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) finally restored service to North Eleuthera last night after the area suffered a more than 34-hour power outage due to generation failures at the Hatchet Bay Power Station.

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Cable hits back over Internet affordability

Cable Bahamas has hit back by arguing that this nation has “among the lowest and most affordable” entry-level broadband Internet prices in the Caribbean to help make its case for easing regulation.

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Activist ‘cosmically disappointed’ with Gov’t over dolphins’ rescue

The environmentalist who led the campaign to close Blackbeard’s Cay yesterday asserted she is “cosmically disappointed” in the Government while branding the surviving dolphins’ rescue a “PR stunt”.

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Sprinter Wanya McCoy ‘making the adjustment’

The decision to switch from playing basketball to running track as a high school student who moved from Doris Johnson to Queen’s College, from competing in the 400 metres to the sprints and transferring from Clemson University to the University of Florida, has paid off big dividends for Wanya McCoy.

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Denisha Cartwright pleased with performance

DENISHA Cartwright knew sooner or later that she would qualify for the 2024 Olympic Games.

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Police believe weekend killing of two teens may be connected

TWO teenagers were killed over the weekend, bringing the murder count for the year to 49.

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Two ‘sick slips’ delays Gibson trial

A SUPREME Court judge adjourned the trial of Adrian Gibson and others yesterday after the Long Island MP failed to appear in court for medical reasons.

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Coroner’s court empanels jury for inquest into police-involved killing of Aliko Collins

A FIVE-PERSON jury was empanelled yesterday as the inquest into the 2017 police-involved killing of 21-year-old Aliko Collins in Pinewood Gardens began.

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Police: Teen killed on basketball court had running feud with a suspect in his murder

THE teen killed on a basketball court over the weekend had a running feud with one of the suspects in his murder, Chief Superintendent of Police Chrislyn Skippings said yesterday.

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Heartbreaking rise in suicides and attempts

A SERIES of stories about suspected suicides have featured in The Tribune recently – and each is genuinely heartbreaking.

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Praise for the rescue - but why did it take so long?

IT is very welcome indeed to see a happy ending to the story about the dolphins of Blackbeard’s Cay.

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Remove VAT from all medical

There has to be an SOS going out to the people who have medical health insurance and those who have requirement for expensive medication.

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Pintard is not young generation

TWO weeks prior, the FNM and the nation at large witnessed two individuals whom I hold in high regard step up to vie for the position of leading our party into the upcoming general election.

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