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Henfield Basketball Shooting Academy takes it to ‘The Lab’
IT’S called “The Lab,” where coach and mentor Marvin Hen eld has created his home for the Marvin Hen eld Basketball Shooting Academy for basketball players who have been marginalised because of their shooting abilities.
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National task force chief defends food aid
SUSAN Larson, head of the National Food Distribution Task Force formed under the Minnis administration, has defended the programme after Social Services Minister Obie Wilchcombe questioned the nearly $800k weekly bill.
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Three perish in house fire
THE charred remains of a woman and two children were discovered after a fire at a residence on Coco Plum Road off East Street was extinguished yesterday.
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Will union perish with no vision?
Please publish this letter to our Prime Minister.
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‘I SAW ADRIANA IN SAFE HOUSE’: Witness swears missing Cuban woman was held by immigration officers
A CAMEROON native who was released from the Carmichael Road Detention Centre over two months ago claimed she saw missing Cuban woman Adriana Caro at the Department of Immigration’s safe house in early April.
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White privilege and slavery
“WHITE privilege” is a main tenet of institutionalised racism and has only been successful because of the desecration of accountability. This is but a minuscule reference of an obscene period in history.
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Super Value’s solar roll-out eyes 60% energy bill slash
Super Value’s principal yesterday revealed the supermarket chain is aiming to slash its energy bill by “60 percent or better” through installing solar power at all its stores by summer 2022.
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Port beats revenue forecasts by $1.5m
Nassau’s major commercial shipping port beat its original revenue forecast by almost $1.5m for its 2021 financial year, although profits declined by 7.7 percent year-over-year.
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Fusion Superplex celebrates: 70 set for cinema open recall
The Fusion Superplex last night said 70 more workers will be recalled after the government gave the go-ahead to re-open its cinemas, its top executive saying: “The staff want to bring champagne in.”
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DIANE PHILLIPS: Every little bit of care helps in the life of a single mom who lost her job to COVID
If you want to measure the impact of COVID-19, you can find it in the bare cupboards at Alysha’s apartment. Or the empty space where the refrigerator used to go before she had to sell it to help keep a roof over her children’s heads. The signs of the pandemic are everywhere in this space – the stove parts on top of the pulled apart appliance that only needs $153 to make it work again, but right now in Alysha’s world, $153 might as well be a thousand.
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STATESIDE: Biden’s blundered in the execution but the decision to leave was the right one
AT 12:30AM on Sunday morning, lightning struck the Washington Monument, perhaps the most distinctive memorial in America’s capital city that is full of them.
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Open letter on food aid
LAST Friday, October 1, the work of the Food Assistance Task Force came to a formal end. For seventy weeks without interruption, and all the while in the face of the global Covid-19 pandemic, food security for tens of thousands of Bahamian households was assured.
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PETER YOUNG: What has the US learned 20 years on from 9/11?
NEVER forget the loss, grief and pain that is deep, consuming and ever-present. This was surely the enduring message when America, with sadness and solemnity, paid tribute on Saturday to the nearly 3,000 victims of 9/11. It was the 20th anniversary of the deadly terrorist attacks in New York and Washington in 2001.
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