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Three injured in apartment complex explosion
TWO men and a woman were rushed to hospital Friday morning after suffering injuries from an explosion at their apartment complex on Third Street, The Grove.
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Developer eyes $5m New Providence move
A Bahamian developer yesterday disclosed it plans to invest up to $5m in developing a 2.3-acre project close to Lake Cunningham that will provide medical services to western New Providence residents.
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Saunders demanded $3,000 to start a new life – moments before he was shot dead
A BISHOP testified yesterday that Ishido Saunders showed up to the Golden Gates Assembly Church in 2022 and demanded $3,000 from him to start a new life before police fatally shot him.
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LPIA's completion to create 200 jobs
Around 200 full-time jobs will be created when the final stage of Lynden Pindling International Airport’s (LPIA) redevelopment is completed in November, Tribune Business was told yesterday, with tenders for the retail concessions already out to bid.
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Investigation questioned by attorney in Bible school sex attack case
THE investigator of an alleged sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl at vacation Bible school dismissed an attorney’s suggestion that she did a “lousy job” with the investigation.
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Activists say abortion ban a factor in illegal pills trade – For some ‘there’s no choice’
LEGISLATION restricting women’s access to reproductive health care has harmed residents and should be the focus of national discourse, not abortion drugs some obtain without a doctor’s prescription because they have no other choice.
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Rolle was ‘subdued’ trying to escape
A POLICE officer who was a supervisor at the Southern Police Station in 2013 testified Aaron Rolle did not complain of being abused during his interrogation despite having to be “subdued” by officers after an alleged attempt to jump out of a window.
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Cost Right lease's five-year extension for half the space
AML Foods has secured a five-year lease extension for 50 percent less space at its Town Centre Mall-based Cost Right store while it waits for the fate of its new location to be determined.Gavin Watchorn, the BISX-listed food group’s chief executive,
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Donna Vasyli opts out of giving testimony
DONNA Vasyli yesterday opted out of giving testimony under oath concerning the events that led to her millionaire podiatrist husband’s lifeless body being discovered at their Old Fort Bay home earlier this year.
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Marijuana users do not 'function perfectly'
“THERE is no such thing as being inebriated from weed. You can smoke all day long and still work, still drive, still talk, basically you can still function perfectly. But drink straight for two hours. You won’t be able to stand, talk or function at all. Yet weed is illegal... How did this planet get so stupid?”
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Lawyer tells court her car was used at Fox Hill shootings
A TAX lawyer testified yesterday how her car was stolen while she was at work and was allegedly used by suspects to execute the 2013 Fox Hill mass shooting.Erica Culmer-Curry said her charcoal grey Honda was stolen out of her employer’s parking lot j
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Teacher’s murder: guilty as charged
A SUPREME Court jury yesterday found Allister Williams unanimously guilty for the September 2016 murder of pregnant Charles W Saunders Baptist school teacher Marisha Bowen.
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Guilty - but the guys who killed Joyelle looked unmoved
FROM the day the prosecution closed its case into the murder trial of three men accused of killing teacher Joyelle McIntosh, to the moment the verdict was read, her sister Joycelyn Clarke Szasz said she was “unsure, nervous and unable to sleep”.
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Speaker reads from the wrong script
“The best laid schemes of mice and men often go awry…”
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NAD board 'not politically pressured' to discount airport tenant
THE Nassau Airport Development Company Ltd’s Board of Directors did not face interference from any politician nor was it compelled by political pressure under the former Christie administration to discount a Lynden Pindling International Airport tenant $1.2m in rental debt, according to former NAD Chairman Anthony McKinney, QC.
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$5m expansion to 'double' marina
The new owners of Long Island’s Flying Fish Marina yesterday said they were planning to invest “at least $5 million” to upgrade the property, doubling both full-time staff and boat slips.
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Bimini case is sister of first covid death
NEARLY four weeks after Kimberly Johnson-Rolle became the country’s first COVID-19 death, her sister became one of Bimini’s latest confirmed COVID-19 cases on Saturday, a reality that has shocked but not shaken the resolve of the 58-year-old.
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EDITORIAL: Marijuana - to legalise or not to legalise
THERE was no marijuana in the Garden of Eden when the world began — but there was a special fruit. Not only was this fruit a curiosity piece, but what added to its worth — it was forbidden.
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Bay Street braces for 50% sales hit
Bay Street merchants yesterday revealed they are bracing for at least a 50 percent sales hit due to the 30-day cruise industry shutdown as several mull closures amid the coronavirus pandemic. Maria Liminatis, the Fashion Centre’s general manager, to
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DIANE PHILLIPS: There really is no place like home - shame we don’t go out and see it
It began with a thin piece of paper that fell out of an old folder. I can’t explain why I kept it for more than 40 years or why I kept any of the stuff in that folder, for that matter. Instinct, maybe, but back to the slip of paper. It was a small 4.5”x 8.5” flyer, now yellowed with age, with the name and photograph of Earl Nightingale, the legendary author and radio personality who ruled the airwaves in the 1950s and ‘60s.
