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Powerade sponsors BAARK! Potcakeman Triathlon for 10th year
BAARK! (Bahamas Alliance for Animal Rights & Kindness) is scheduled to host its eleventh triathlon at Jaws Beach on Sunday, February 25.
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Student Spotlight: Dakoda Ashe
DAKODA Ashe is a sixth-grade honour roll student at St Anne’s School.
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Albany developer’s Bahamas return after spared jail time
ALBANY’S principal investor was given permission to return to The Bahamas as early as yesterday after being spared jail time following his previous guilty plea to securities fraud.
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Four year sentence for having assault rifle
A MAN was sentenced to four years in prison on Friday after he admitted to having a banned assault rifle near his home on Wilson Tract last week.
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Western Warriors soccer club achieves quadruple BFA championship titles
THE Western Warriors Football (Soccer) Club celebrated an epic season of success in the 2022-2023 Bahamas Football Association leagues, receiving four 1st place trophies in last Saturday’s BFA awards ceremonies. They won titles in the boys under-15 division, under-18, men’s league and the prestigious Men’s Hummel Cup.
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18-year-old jailed for possession of unlicensed firearm, ammunition
AN 18-year-old was sentenced to two years in prison on Tuesday after admitting to owning a loaded gun found in a car Sea Breeze last week.
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Distillery unveils limited edition rum to mark 50th independence
John Watling’s Distillery has unveiled the limited release of its Bullion rum to commemorate both its tenth birthday and the 50th anniversary of Bahamian independence.
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Man gets 18 months in prison after admitting to gun possession, asks judge for leniency
A MAN was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday after admitting to having a loaded gun he claims he got from a murder victim shortly after the man was shot in 2021.
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Teen boy sentenced to 20 months after admitting to possession of a loaded pistol
AN 18-year-old was sentenced to 20 months in prison yesterday after admitting to having a loaded gun in the ceiling of his house last weekend.
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Police in joint operation seize $10m cocaine at Stella Maris Airport over the weekend
POLICE in Long Island seized cocaine valued at $10m over the weekend.
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WORLD VIEW: Caribbean’s role as a voice of reason in a fractured OAS
On May 31, the Organization of American States (OAS) faced a prolonged and contentious debate that lasted from 2:30 in the afternoon until well past midnight. This episode, marked by acrimony and political undercurrents, which was webcast publicly and instantly to the world, is likely to be revisited during the upcoming OAS General Assembly from June 21 to 23 in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of the OAS.
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Two men accept plea deal for string of armed robberies - sentenced to six years prison time
TWO men were sentenced to six years in prison as part of a plea agreement for a string of armed robberies that occurred from 2017 to 2020.
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Remove judiciary’s discretion
In the midst of a near-existential illegal firearm/murder crisis, it is most disheartening to hear government ministers still paying lip service to the most abused of our sacred cows: the maintenance of maximum judicial discretion throughout our criminal justice system.
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Pain and sadness on Dorian anniversary
THE anniversary of Hurricane Dorian still conjures pain and sadness for many people in Abaco and Grand Bahama.
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WORLD VIEW: 1.5°C is upon us - are we prepared?
THE report on May 17, from the World Meteorological Organization, (WMO) that global temperatures are likely to surge to record levels in the next five years should have sent all Caribbean institutions, such as the CARICOM Secretariat, the Caribbean Development Bank, and the Caribbean Community Climate Change Centre, into overdrive to explore further ways in which the region could accelerate efforts to avert this calamity.
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WORLD VIEW: Autonomous weapons – a real and urgent danger to people
AS if small states, with limited financial and human resources to safeguard their societies, do not confront enough grave challenges, along comes the phenomenon of “autonomous weapons” – probably the most frightening technological development that has yet been created.
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PM defends frequent travel as conducting ‘strategic international relations’
PRIME Minister Philip ‘Brave” Davis defended his frequent travels yesterday, tying US Vice President Kamala Harris’ visit to his engagement with global leaders.
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No worry over electric as gas car sales ‘booming’
The Bahamas Motor Dealers Association’s (BMDA) president said he is not worried about electric car sales in the country rising because gasoline car sales are “booming”.
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Protect our access to our beaches
I thank you in advance for the space to address two issues that have dominated the headlines recently, that if not handled carefully can have devastating social consequences for this tiny island on which sits the capital of the country, financial and tourist-wise.
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WORLD VIEW: Decimation of vulnerable nations inevitable if global warming continues on present trend
JOHN Kerry, former US Secretary of State and current US Special Envoy on Climate Change matters, told the world’s Ambassadors at a meeting in Washington, on May 10, that “there is no way” of keeping the rise in global temperatures to 1.5 degrees Celsius unless CO2 emissions are drastically reduced.
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