"%EA%B5%AC%ED%8C%8C%EB%B0%9C%EC%A4%91%EA%B5%AD%EB%A7%88%EC%82%AC%EC%A7%80%E2%97%86%E0%B4%A01%E0%B4%A0_4889_4785%E2%97%86%E7%B6%8C%EA%B5%AC%ED%8C%8C%EB%B0%9C%EC%A7%80%EC%95%95%EA%B2%BD%EB%9D%BD%E5%96%81%EA%B5%AC%ED%8C%8C%EB%B0%9C%EC%A7%80%EC%95%95%EA%B2%BD%EB%9D%BD%EC%B6%9C%EC%9E%A5%E6%87%9F%EA%B5%AC%ED%8C%8C%EB%B0%9C%EC%B6%9C%EC%9E%A5%E8%9B%AA%EA%B5%AC%ED%8C%8C%EB%B0%9C%EC%B6%9C%EC%9E%A5%EA%B1%B4%EB%A7%88%F0%9F%98%B5execration%2F" | Search

MOTIA welcomes golfers to Great Exuma Classic – PGA Korn Ferry Tour

EXUMA, The Bahamas – Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Investments & Aviation Chester Cooper welcomed over 100 participants to the Great Exuma Classic/PGA Korn Ferry Tour, as the country rebounds from the COVID-19 pandemic.

Digital banking can’t be ‘rammed down throats’

A senior banker yesterday said the industry must adopt the “Mary Poppins with medicine” approach in encouraging more Bahamians and businesses to switch to digital transactions.

Tennis ace Justin Roberts earns Battle of Boca title

After taking almost a year off to recuperate from a hamstring injury, top-ranked Bahamian tennis player Justin Roberts returned to the international scene in grand style, winning the Battle of Boca Men’s Open Championships.

Bastian records 4th double double of season

BAHAMIAN student athletes at various levels of NCAA basketball opened their conference schedules following a series of COVID-19 related postponements.

Desmond Mpilo Tutu

In Fire Forged and Purified [Desmond Mpilo Tutu, October 7, 1931 to December 26, 2021]

NACAC President Mike Sands says 2021 ‘will be very hard act to follow’

COMING off what could only be described as an exceptional year for the North American, Central American and Caribbean, president Mike Sands said their athletes will be hard pressed to surpass their achievements in 2021, but they’re looking forward to greater success in 2022.

New location drives 80% of December sales rise for AID

A major Bahamian retailer yesterday revealed that its newly-opened Blue Hill Road and Coconut Grove store was responsible for 80 percent of the December sales increase seen in Nassau.

Cruise port: ‘Omicron not slowed us down’

Nassau Cruise Port’s top executive yesterday said vessel bookings have not been impacted by what he slammed as an “unfair analysis” by US health regulators of the industry’s COVID risk.

Bad weather cancels as many cruise calls as COVID’s Omicron

Nassau Cruise Port’s top executive yesterday said it has lost more vessel calls to bad weather than the COVID Omicron variant with berth bookings “very solid” for the remainder of 2022.

Trent donates bats during visit to Mario Ford Baseball Camp

BEFORE leaving to begin spring training camp in Tempe, Arizona, centre fielder Trent Deveaux took the time out to spend Saturday, giving some instructions to players in the Mario Ford Baseball Camp as they returned to Windsor Park.

Dire predictions of how bad it could be

A NEW study has projected that due to the Omicron variant in The Bahamas, daily case numbers could reach a high of 2,610 by February 13.

GLENYS LETS RIP AT LLOYD: Accuses former minister of leaving schools in crisis and ignoring pupils’ plight

EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin yesterday blasted her predecessor, Jeffrey Lloyd, saying he opposed the resumption of face-to-face teaching and left behind “a crisis and debacle” in public education.

Omicron ‘pushes back’ pre-COVID for tourism

Tourism’s hoped-for return to 2019 business volumes this year has been “pushed back” several months by Omicron with Internet searches for The Bahamas now “half” of pre-COVID levels.

Top official hopes surge is slowing down

THE country recorded 2,489 cases of COVID-19 in the first clinically monitored week of 2022, according to Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Phillip Swann.

Air Canada’s pause ‘certainly bad news’

A senior tourism official yesterday said he would have been more “worried” if Air Canada had suspended its weekly Exuma flight for commercial reasons rather than COVID-19.

Sir Sidney a hero of The Bahamas

Sir Sidney Poitier was a Bahamas National Treasure and priceless Jewel to the world, which shared his God-gifted talent of acting with the world on the world stage on television and in movies.

Shavaul Butters makes NCAA Division I debut

SHAVAUL Butters made his long awaited NCAA Division I basketball debut with the Texas Rio Grande Valley after injuries derailed the start of his collegiate career.

Shaunae Miller-Uibo Tribune Sports’ Female Athlete of Year

WITH another sterling 400-metre gold medal performance at the COVID-19 delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games a year later, Shaunae Miller-Uibo was in vintage form as she got her name stamped on another Tribune Sports’ Female Athlete of the Year.

923 police officers promoted this month

MORE than 920 Royal Bahamas Police Force officers of all ranks received promotions this month.

Worker shortage fears on Omicron explosion

Bahamian employers yesterday voiced fears that the rapid explosion in Omicron cases could result “in our whole system being challenged” by the absence of key workers.

Sort By

Date

Special Features

Obits

PDF Edition