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Serena Brown to transfer from Aggies to Hawkeyes this fall
SERENA Brown will make the transition from the Southeastern Conference (SEC) to the Big 10 for the next step in her collegiate career.
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Water polo funding 'insufficient' despite regional success
LOCAL water polo continues to face issues with funding, despite the recent success the sport has had at the regional level. Over the weekend, the team was forced to cut travel plans short at the CCCAN Championships in Bridgetown, Barbados, where the
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12-man water polo team named
BAHAMAS Aquatics has selected a 12-member team to represent the Bahamas at the Union Americana De Natacio (UANA) IV Pan American Youth Men’s and Women’s Water Polo 17-and-under Championships, scheduled for the National Aquatic Centre in Balmain, Couv
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Still no movement on high profile investigations
POLICE Commissioner Anthony Ferguson yesterday confirmed several high profile investigations were still ongoing, but could not give an update on their status. The police chief told reporters at a press briefing he did not have an update to probes in
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Man can still have fair trial even though he's no longer a juvenile
A MAN who was charged as a 15-year-old has lost his bid to appeal a judge’s decision not to permanently stay the criminal proceedings against him because he had already become a legal adult before the trial could get off the ground, thus losing the b
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BPL deputy chairman to sue Eyewitness News
BAHAMAS Power and Light deputy chairman Stephen Holowesko has refuted media reports that his family’s company funded the purchase of seven new generators. In a statement issued yesterday, Mr Holowesko threatened legal action against the news outlet which aired the claims this week.
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Legal fight begins over controversial Briland investment
Opponents of a controversial Harbour Island project have seen the Supreme Court reject their bid to include the local council as a respondent in the battle to overturn its permits and approvals.Justice Diane Stewart ruled on Monday that local hotelie
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A COMIC'S VIEW: I’m off to petition the PM to change the national anthem to Turn Off The Lights
I DISTINCTLY remember in January of 2018, that works Minister Desmond Bannister suggested that Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) was on pace to deliver to the public its best summer on record.
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‘Night my wife set daughter on fire’
A MAN fell asleep with all three of his children by his side, only to wake up the next morning to discover that his schizophrenic wife had taken the youngest one and set her on fire at the behest of “demons”, jurors heard yesterday.
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Nottage takes over AS national risk chief
DR Cassandra Nottage has been appointed to the post of national identified risk framework coordinator, according to a press release from the Office of the Attorney General.
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IMF lowers Bahamas 2019 growth to 1.8%
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) last night cut The Bahamas’ projected real GDP growth for 2019 to 1.8 percent, and warned that external risks facing this country “have increased”.The fund’s executive board, in concluding its annual Article IV c
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Engineer hired to advise on Post Office HQ: Town Centre Mall was wrong choice
THE Minnis administration’s rationale in a resolution last year for abandoning the Phil’s Food Store building as the site of the General Post Office was not supported by the assessment of independent engineers contracted to evaluate the building.
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Prison escapee fails to overturn his 18-year sentence for armed robbery
A FORMER prison escapee’s hopes at overturning his 18-year sentence for robbing a local jewellery store and two people at gunpoint of over $100,000 worth of cash and merchandise have been dashed by the Court of Appeal. Appellate Justices Jon Isaacs,
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Fire death mother ‘was ill, not evil’
THE lawyer for Philippa Marshall, the woman accused of murdering her daughter by setting her on fire in December 2017, yesterday submitted that the accused was “not in her right frame of mind” when the offence took place and therefore called for the nine-woman jury to find her not guilty by reason of insanity.
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'We need people in politics who can contribute'
SENATE president Katherine Smith says while she supports having more women enter politics, having people who are qualified to run who can make a contribution to the growth and development of the country is greatly needed.Her comments came during an i
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Multi-billion pension deficit 'high priority, not top' for govt
The deputy prime minister says resolving the government’s own looming multi-billion dollar pension crisis “is certainly a high priority but not top of the list”.KP Turnquest, in a recent interview with Tribune Business, said the Minnis administration
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Convicts see charges withdrawn
TWO men who previously stood trial over two separate murders have been discharged from allegedly causing harm to a fellow inmate at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services last year.
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US woman dies after shark attack
AN American woman is dead after a shark attack near Rose Island yesterday.
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40 Cable staff gain leadership awards
More than 40 supervisors and high performers at Cable Bahamas have graduated from with college-level certificates in leadership from the National Cable Television Institute (NCTI). The BISX-listed communications provider’s ‘REV University’, its educ
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New calls for Minnis to step down over links with Symonette
THE decision to lease the Town Centre Mall to house the General Post Office has come under renewed scrutiny after former Cabinet minister Brent Symonette revealed Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis called him personally to negotiate the deal last year.
