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Woman dies after allegedly jumping from eastern bridge at Potter's Cay
Police are investigating after a woman died after allegedly jumping from the eastern bridge at Potter’s Cay on Sunday afternoon.
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Woman who attacked man with cutlass to take anger classes
A WOMAN was placed on six months probation and ordered to attend anger management classes after she admitted to assaulting a man with a cutlass on Christmas Eve.
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Man remanded on charges of gun possession with intent to supply
A MAN is behind bars after police allegedly found him throwing a bag with two guns out his house window on Eastern Road earlier this week.
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Quality of new surfaces and banks
Public Works … is anyone checking the quality of new surfacing? Airport Road passed the airport close to One West and the shopping centre to stop flooding they raised the road but what a finish … hope PWD doesn’t pay that contractor … the work has to be redone.
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Payouts for legal cases
It was very interesting to hear that the Hon Prime Minister declined to reveal settlement amounts in actions settled by the government with members of the security forces because he did not want pending actions to be affected.
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Two years for having loaded gun
A 37-year-old male was sentenced to two years in prison after he admitted to having a loaded gun in his car on Tonique Williams Darling Highway last week.
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Man gets seven months prison for breaching bail conditions
A MAN was sentenced to seven months in prison yesterday after admitting to breaching his bail for allegedly robbing a former parliamentarian outside his home with a gun in 2020.
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Man charged with possession of ammunition with intent to supply
A MAN was sent to prison after he was allegedly found with 150 rounds of 9mm ammunition in his Bozine Town home last week.
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$3,500 fine for curfew breaches
A MAN on bail for murder was fined $3,500 yesterday after he admitted to breaching his curfew five times this month.
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Man charged over death of officer hit by car
A 41-year-old man was charged yesterday with causing the death of Inspector Tomas McIntosh, a police officer whose organs were donated after he was declared brain dead following a car accident.
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Murder accused pleads guilty to curfew breaches
A MAN on bail for attempted murder was jailed for six months after admitting to breaching his curfew five times.
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Man gets bail again after another violation of bail
A MAN on bail for murder was again granted bail after allegedly failing to charge his electronic monitoring device four times.
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Man fined $5,000 for seven pounds of marijuana
A MAN was fined $5,000 after admitting to having $7,000 worth of marijuana last week.
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Eric Wiberg – 20 accidents at sea off New Providence
NEW Providence saw over 20 World War II aircraft ditch, crash, and explode into its adjacent waters. Most of these were to the south of the island, east, and north, and depended on direction of the winds, which air field was used, and complex night-time exercises using extremely bright Leigh Lights, and flying in formation. Mechanical failures from aircraft just delivered from American factories played a role as well.
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HUBERT EDWARDS: The Bahamas performance for 2023 and outlook for 2024
It is beyond doubt that the reported performance of the country for the last fiscal, 2022-23, has been noteworthy. Following two years of deep decline, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and an intervening “bounce back” year, 2023 has seen positive economic performance for the country but unfortunately lacking in sufficient potency to seriously start to change our fortunes.
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Rattlers fire to huge win
COACH Kevin “KJ” Johnson and his CI Gibson Rattlers senior girls and boys’ basketball teams were simply too much for the Government High Magicmen to handle as the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association’s 2023/24 season swung into high gear following the Christmas break.
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Atlantis: 30% spend, rate jumps ‘as good as it gets’
Atlantis yesterday said its year-to-date performance is “as good as you can get” with rates and visitor spending per occupied room both exceeding pre-COVID levels by up to 30 percent.
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Bains & Grants Town Summer Games July 24 to August 12
FOLLOWING a successful trial run last year, Member of Parliament Wayde Watson and his committee are looking forward to the hosting of their second annual Bains & Grants Town Summer Games.
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Top sailor Spencer making some waves
Cartwright joins coaching staff at Brown University
Top sailor Spencer Cartwright has made a name for himself on the waters and will now look to make his mark as an assistant coach for the Brown University sailing team.
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NPBA regular season opening night on November 11
THE New Providence Basketball Association (NPBA) regular season is scheduled to return next week Saturday for opening night at the Kendal GL Isaacs Gymnasium.
