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Five arrests over drugs in separate incidents
DRUG arrests were made in Grand Bahama and Abaco in separate incidents this week that resulted in the arrests of five men.
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Man accused of damaging car
A woman testified yesterday about how she made a complaint to police after being informed by a friend that her car had been damaged.
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Providence Storm win Christmas Holiday Classic
AS the local sports-less 2021 year came to a close last week, the Providence Storm Basketball Club managed to get in their annual Providence Christmas Holiday Classic without any fanfare on their home court at the CI Gibson Gymnasium.
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Unity benefits the Caribbean
A Commonwealth is a nation, state and or other political unit, founded on law and united by compactor tacit agreement by the people for the common good.
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Race against time to help four-month-old baby girl
A MOTHER is in a race against time to raise money to pay for lifesaving surgery for her four-month-old daughter.
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Man who died after being stabbed ‘was trying to stop fight’
A MAN died days after being stabbed on Christmas Day when he was trying to stop a fight, a relative said.
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Settling judgments should be a priority
The new Attorney General Ryan Pinder came out guns blazing according to an Eyewitness News post online on November 1, 2021 with headline Unbudgeted and Unfunded: AG says judgments against government ‘have to be paid’.
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Investigator tells of libel probe steps
A FINANCIAL crime investigator recounted yesterday how he conducted a number of inquiries at several agencies after being informed of a libel complaint made by former Water and Sewerage Corporation Executive Chairman Adrian Gibson.
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Man fined $5,000 for bid to tamper with jury
A 26-year-old man was fined $5,000 yesterday for asking a female juror to declare the man whose trial she was judging as innocent.
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EDITORIAL: Safety first is the right approach over carnival
THE Christmas Carnival will not open.
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EDITORIAL: The rising numbers of cases don’t lie
IN all the talk about COVID-19, there is one thing that is inescapable – the numbers.
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Man shot dead by off-duty officers
OFF-DUTY police shot and killed a man who officers said “brandished” a gun at them outside a nightspot in the Fire Trail Road area on Sunday.
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Bahama tour new WAUSM campus
ELEVEN months into construction, the West Atlantic University School of Medicine campus in Freeport opens next Tuesday for the start of classes for more than a dozen students who have enrolled.
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Minister defends govt’s decision to suspend RT-PCR test for vaccinated
HEALTH and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville has defended the government’s decision to suspend the mandatory RT-PCR test requirement for vaccinated people entering the country, citing challenges travellers were having obtaining the tests due to supply shortages overseas.
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FRONT PORCH: Love’s Pure Light
THIS Christmas column is dedicated to a dear priest friend, a source of mercy, of laughter, and of everlasting friendship, who continues to discover and to share new light and life.
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Middle Tennessee tops Toledo 31-24 to begin bowl season
THE Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders out-classed the Toledo Rockets in a dramatic fourth-quarter comeback to hoist the 2021 Bahamas Bowl college football championship trophy at the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium on Friday.
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Coconut Grove suspect in court
A 21-year-old man was remanded to prison yesterday after being accused of murdering a man and attempting to kill another earlier this month.
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FRONT PORCH: In a time of despair came the hands that brought hope
In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the great historical pandemics, shattered then shuttered the global and national economy. International tourism came to a dramatic and unprecedented halt. Much worse than in the 2008 Great Recession, the Bahamas economy collapsed within months.
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Doctors make donation to home for the aged
PERSIS Rodgers Home for the Aged received a $2,500 donation from the Consultant Physicians Staff Association yesterday.
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Govt to give ‘around’ $350,000 to 65 former Urban Development staff
THE government will be giving “somewhere around” $350,000 in outstanding allowances to 65 former employees of Urban Development in Grand Bahama and the Family Islands, according to Social Services and Urban Development Minister Obie Wilchcombe.
