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FIBA World Cup ‘23 Americas Qualifiers postponed
WITH the impending impact of Tropical Storm Nicole on The Bahamas, FIBA and the Bahamas Basketball Federation announced the postponement of the latest window of the World Cup 2023 Americas Qualifiers.
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Family Island hotels targeting 90% pre-COVID room nights
Family Island hotels can hit 90 percent of pre-COVID room nights sold with a strong over 2022’s final quarter, a senior tourism is predicting, voicing optimism the sector will “get closer” to its targets.
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‘Stagnant’: Fears for auto sales until 2023
Auto dealers fear new car sales will be “stagnant” for at least another year with global supply chain disruption causing order backlogs of up to 200 vehicles for some operators.
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NPBA Championships: Rockets sweep Giants
WHILE the Discount Distributors Rockets celebrated with a three-game sweep of the New Providence Basketball Association men’s division one championship series, dethroning the Commonwealth Bank Giants, the division II series between the Sun Oil Rockets and the Your Essential Store (YES) Giants will go right down to the wire in the fifth and deciding game.
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Minister: Strong turnout by staff
EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said more than 85 percent of teachers showed up to work on Monday “despite being urged to turn off their computers and sit it out”.
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Student athletes shine at NAIA, Junior College level
BAHAMIAN student athletes have excelled this season at various levels of collegiate basketball, highlighted by recent performances at the NAIA and Junior College level.
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Bahamas sees $900m boost from marine areas expansion
The Bahamas has generated a $900m annual economic boost by expanding its Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) to cover 20 percent of the country’s coastal environment, studies have estimated.
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NPBA sets the stage for championship
WITH all two game sweeps of their best-of-three semifinal series over the weekend at the AF Adderley Gymnasium, the stage is now set for the New Providence Basketball Association’s best-of-five championship series in both the men’s division one and II.
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PETER YOUNG: From the summit of success to now being shown the door - it’s all over for Boris
“ALL political careers end in failure”. Those were the memorable words of Enoch Powell, who was a leading right-wing Tory, and some say a contrarian and a maverick politician, of the 1960s and beyond. It is a fair bet that some of the older generation in Britain will have recalled this famous dictum when watching Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s resignation statement outside No 10 Downing Street last Thursday as he stood down from what he called “the best job in the world”.
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Cruise port hits 97% end-May occupancy
Passenger occupancies on vessels calling at Nassau Cruise Port in the final week of May exceeded 97 percent, it was revealed yesterday, signalling the sector is closing on full recovery from COVID-19’s ravages.
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Shamar Burrows and Tigers nationally ranked at No. 10
AFTER the first two weeks of the season, Shamar Burrows and the Dalhousie Tigers are nationally ranked at no.10 in Canada’s U Sports men’s basketball power rankings.
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‘Polluter must pay’ says minister after fuel spill
ENVIRONMENT and Natural Resources Minister Vaughn Miller yesterday would not say whether negligence played a role in last week’s oil spill at Exuma.
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FIBA Centrobasket: Team Bahamas in win column
After improving in each of their first three games played, the Bahamas junior boys’ team finally got in the win column at the FIBA Under-15 Centrobasket Championships.
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High blood pressure linked to sexual dysfunction in women and men
It is well-known that uncontrolled elevated blood pressure can lead to erectile dysfunction in men. It is relatively common for the first symptom of new onset or known poorly controlled hypertension to be poor quality erections.
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Pro basketball players take spotlight in France
RADSHAD Davis had another season high, Willis Mackey Jr and Aaron Levarity finally took the court together, and Dominick Bridgewater continues his production to highlight performances from Bahamian players in various pro basketball leagues throughout France.
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Men’s national basketball team players take spotlight
POSTSEASON basketball continues for several Bahamian senior men’s national team players in their respective leagues throughout Europe and South America.
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388 new cases of COVID-19
THREE hundred and eighty-eight new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on Thursday, Ministry of Health officials reported on Friday.
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EDITORIAL: The long battle to defeat HIV/AIDS
THE end of the AIDS epidemic is in sight?
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Auto dealers: Sales ‘20% higher’ if we had supply
Bahamian auto dealers yesterday said industry-wide sales would be “20 percent higher” than the actual 159 year-over-year increase for 2022 to-date if vehicle supplies matched pre-COVID levels.
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84-year-old woman strangled to death
THE death of an 84-year-old woman who was found at her home about two weeks ago has been classified as a homicide by strangulation.