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UPDATED: Leon Griffin, husband of Melanie Griffin, shot dead in suspected robbery
LEON Griffin, the husband of former Social Services Minister Melanie Griffin, died last night after being shot in the head in a suspected robbery outside the family’s home.
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Heads of agreement signed with Western Atlantic University School of Medicine
THE government signed an amended Heads of Agreement with Western Atlantic University School of Medicine yesterday.
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Smugglers’ accusation investigated
POLICE Commissioner Paul Rolle said the Royal Bahamas Police Force is investigating a claim that an officer was allegedly involved in a $25 million cocaine operation.
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Players, coaches get together to relive memories of a major feat
Bahamas women’s national basketball team members go undefeated to win gold at 1992 CARICOM games
IT’S not every day you see players and coaches get together to relive the memories of a major feat in their lives.
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Athletes envision a promising future
Coming out of 2021, some of the country’s top athletes were close to realising their dreams or either winning a medal or making the national team for the delayed 2020 Olympic Games, which took place last August in Tokyo, Japan.
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Food prices: ‘What goes up may not come down’
Super Value’s principal has warned Bahamian shoppers to brace for the possibility that increased food prices may be here to stay, warning: “I don’t believe in what goes up must come down.”
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Minnis: Govt priority should be those who have not been paid
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said the Davis administration’s priority should be on people who have not been paid for contracted government work and not on sending a large delegation to Dubai.
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CIBC walkout in bid to force bank to address staff issues
CIBC First Caribbean is now “looking to talk” after employees walked off the job to protest not having a collective agreement in place.
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Issues finding answers on Minnis administration's COVID spending
FINANCIAL Secretary Simon Wilson says finance experts have been challenged in gleaning the necessary information to determine a true picture of the former Minnis administration’s COVID-19 emergency spending.
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Cabinet yet to decide on jobless benefit extension
Cabinet will likely decide today whether to further extend the Government-funded COVID-19 unemployment benefit that was due to expire at end-December 2021.
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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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SHOT MARINE HAD ‘MENTAL ISSUES’: Body cam footage backs up officer’s version of events
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said the leading seaman police killed on Monday had mental challenges that were known to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force and had been addressed by the agency.
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FOAM to feed 500 in giveback
LOCAL advocacy group Families of All Murder Victims expects to feed 500 people today during a giveback event in observance of the festive season.
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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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A double whammy of COVID challenges in the new year
As the year comes to an end, governments worldwide brace themselves to face the latest COVID-19 variant. Omicron.
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Freeport’s airport
Now that the GB Port Authority and Hutchinson Wampoa have conveniently extricated themselves from the loss-making joint ownership of the Grand Bahama Airport, it falls upon the Government to undertake the massive task of rebuilding.
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‘Scared to death’: Marina call for 5-day test return
The Association of Bahamas Marinas (ABM) president yesterday urged the Government to revert back to a five-day COVID testing window as moving to three days has “scared everybody to death”.
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Lacarthea Red-Line Athletics’ Athlete of the Year
FOR her achievement in making every junior national team as the top high school sprinter in the country this year, as well as the Olympic Games, Lacarthea Cooper was awarded the Red- Line Athletics’ Athlete of the Year honours.
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Clarke vs Mackey in final
With a limited field of players in the women’s draw, top two seeds Sydney Clarke and Elana Mackey - both back home from college - made quick work of their opponents in their respective semi-final matches, advancing to today’s final of the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s 2021 Giorgio Baldacci Open Nationals.
