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Eric Wiberg – A budget and a dream that became a passion
Bomber on a budget. That’s what I chose to name my pyric missions to find the metal and scraps of old World War II aircraft in our country.
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Eva Hilton, Sybil Strachan run away with U-12 soccer titles
THE under-12 (U12) girls of Eva Hilton Primary School and boys of Sybil Strachan Primary School can now celebrate after winning the division trophies at the newly-named Dawn N Knowles Primary Schools Soccer Tournament hosted at the Roscow AL Davies Soccer Field yesterday.
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Jamiah Nabbie named Female Junior Athlete of the Year
Jamiah Nabbie capped off a successful track season crowned as the Tribune’s 2023 Junior Female Athlete of the Year.
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INSIGHT: It’s time govt shows they are truly serious
IT is hard to get away from the topic of crime with the way this year has started.
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VJ Edgecombe named Junior Male Athlete of the Year
Valdez “VJ” Edgecombe has been awarded the Tribune’s 2023 Junior Male Athlete of the Year. With athletics and aquatics garnering a number of the top stories throughout the year, Edgecombe provided a bright spot for basketball in the junior category.
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Port authority
Thanks for allowing me this space in your newspaper, I read an article (Letters, May 10) and was totally flabbergasted as to the title “the government boots on the necks of the GBPA and the Grand Bahamian people”. My intentions are every time there is an article in your or any publication highlighting the good of the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) and its groups of companies, it’s published, if someone has another view it’s not.
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BLTA Awards: Top players soak up spotlight
ATHLETES received top honours at the inaugural Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association (BLTA) Recognition Awards Ceremony on Saturday evening at the National Tennis Centre (NTC).
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PI hotel project’s 100 ‘permanent’ job pledge
A development that aims to be Paradise Island’s “first new hotel for many years” yesterday said its project will create 100 permanent jobs and a similar number of construction posts.
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Felix Neely Jr national cycling champion
AFTER two days of inclement weather, Felix Neely Jr was crowned the national male cycling champion at the 50th Independence National Road Cycling Championships in Grand Bahama.
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ERIC WIBERG: B-25 ditched in the sea two miles north of Tarpum Bay
JUST before noon on Tuesday, June 6, 1944, the operational record book of base OTU 111 records that “B-25 FW-154 FR was airborne at 11.16am upon A/S [anti-submarine] patrol No 2. No W/T [radio] contact was made with this aircraft after 11.50am, when a long dash [Mayday] was received. At 1.50pm, a signal was received from the pilot, via government channels, that the aircraft had ditched in the sea two miles north of Tarpum Bay, Eleuthera, at 11.48 am.
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Eric Wiberg – Nylon stockings, parachutes and wreckage found on Acklins of a B-26 Bomber
Women who donated her nylon stockings to the US war effort might not know they often became parachutes, four of which floated to earth and sea over Acklins. After Ralph Stevens rolled out of a doomed bomber, spraining ankle and knee, it was given to a family of six children in Pompey Bay, by the resident commissioner, Chauncy Tynes.
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STATESIDE: Crowded GOP presidential race may favour Trump for better or worse
The Republican Party may be repeating a mistake from 2016 as they get set for a bruising campaign to choose their nominee for 2024. By the end of this week, the field of candidates who have formally declared their intention to seek the GOP nomination for president next year will have reached ten, and could exceed a dozen by the end of this month.
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Fred to investors: 'Pay your fair share or look elsewhere'
The Progressive Liberal Party's (PLP) chairman has demanded that foreign investors "pay your fair share or look elsewhere" in response to push back over the Government's various new tax and revenue-raising measures.
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PETER YOUNG: Consistent stance needed in relations involving Russia, Belarus and Iran
HOW dispiriting it was to learn about the Nobel Foundation’s recent decision to invite the ambassadors of Russia, Belarus and Iran to this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremony in Stockholm in December after excluding them in 2022.
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PETER YOUNG: Can BRICS create a new world order?
A relatively new international grouping has taken centre stage this past week. It is called BRICS. The world is bombarded by endless acronyms by which bodies and organizations are universally known, but it is probably a safe bet that BRICS will not yet be widely familiar even though its significance seems to be growing.
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