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McLean to coach Cardinals: Takes on new job as an assistant

After spending the past decade moving up the ranks from player to assistant director for player development for the Houston Cougars men’s basketball team, Bahamian Mikhail McLean has taken on a new job as an assistant coach for the Lamar University Cardinals.

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Young and Indians lose in PR finals

CHAVEZ Young concluded his offseason in the final series of the Liga de Béisbol Profesional Roberto Clemente (LBPRC), commonly known as the Puerto Rican Winter League.

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UPDATED: Man dies after crash in Abaco

AN Abaco man is dead after the vehicle he was driving collided head on with a truck on S C Bootle Highway on Thursday evening.

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Eleuthera ‘jewel’ for sale at $15m

A “jewel of Eleuthera” is said to be attracting significant buyer interest after being put up for sale with a $15m price tag, a local realtor has disclosed.

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Resorts showing Easter promise

Family Island hotels say they are “booked solid” for the Easter period, with one disclosing an 80 percent occupancy level for the holiday that traditionally marks the winter season peak and climax.

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Briland rebound beats projection ‘by over 25-30%’

Harbour Island resort operators yesterday said the post-COVID tourism rebound has exceeded expectations by 25-30 percent, and added: “We’re still rocking and rolling.”

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COVID quarantine change: ‘Right direction on all fronts’

The Government’s adjustments to the COVID isolation and quarantine rules have strengthened the “building blocks of travel confidence” for the peak winter tourism season, a top hotelier says.

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Atlantis confirms Coral re-opening

The hotel union’s president last night said the impact from Atlantis’ plan to re-open the Coral Towers in November will be determined by the number of employees recalled to work.

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Equestrian Marcus Davis making a name for himself

THEY say no man is an island and Marcus Davis knows that better than anyone. The 20-year-old is making a name for himself, and the nation of the Bahamas that he represents, with the help of his family and trainers as he competes for the first time at the highly competitive Winter Equestrian Festival in Wellington, FL.

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BJ Murray hits team-leading 14th home run of the year

BJ Murray continued his power hitting display in a season of milestones for the FAU Owls.

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Murray hits first homer as a pro

BJ Murray had his best game since he joined the Chicago Cubs organisation with a perfect night at the plate and his first professional home run in the Arizona Complex League.

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U.S. steps up testing rule for entry into country

THE United States has announced tightened entry requirements for travellers entering the country, requiring a negative COVID-19 test taken within one day of departure regardless of vaccination status.This begins next week.

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‘I had to have C-section after woman tried to run me over with a car’

A MOTHER told a court that she had to have an emergency C-section the day after a woman allegedly tried to run her over with a car last year.

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‘Water heater sales are lucrative on GB’

A Grand Bahama hotel operator says “it’s a lucrative business to be in hot water heater sales” as his property grapples with the same salt water issues that have afflicted the nearby Grand Lucayan.

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STATESIDE: You had to pinch yourself - this isn’t really the America we know

Yesterday was cool and breezy in the mid-Atlantic region of the US. Rapidly scudding clouds foretold of rain to come later in the day, but for winter-weary Americans, the springlike 60-degree temperatures were a most welcome reminder of winter’s passing.

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Abaco man killed in traffic accident as car flips

AN Abaco man is dead after a traffic accident on Sunday.

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NCAA Div 2: Bahamian players on streaks

SEVERAL Bahamian basketball players at the NCAA Division II level took respective win streaks into a brief winter break.

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PETER YOUNG: The way it’s going we’d all better learn Mandarin

There is a risk of stating the obvious to say China looms large in the minds of many as an increasingly dominant force in the world in its inexorable advance towards its aim of superpower status.

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Grand Lucayan feels the ‘chill’ with no A/C

The Grand Lucayan’s chairman yesterday blamed the resort’s recent closure to overnight guests on an inferior water supply that “rotted our chillers” and left it without air conditioning.

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Man dies after being thrown from moving truck

AN Abaco man died on Saturday after he was thrown from the back of a moving truck.