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DIANE PHILLIPS: Open your eyes and see the beauty of foreign in all of us
ON a bright, sunny morning last week, the students, faculty and staff of LN Coakley Senior High in Exuma poured out of classrooms and gathered along the halls and in the courtyard, filling every available foot of open air.
S&P slashes Bahamas ‘23 growth to just 1.1%
Standard & Poor’s (S&P) yesterday slashed its 2023 economic growth forecast for The Bahamas to just 1.1 percent despite giving the country a break on repeated annual creditworthiness downgrades.
Bahamas secure hard-fought win over Panama
THE Bahamas men’s national team played with a lot of heart and grit right to the end, securing a hard fought 83-79 victory over Panama in the first of two games at home this weekend as the FIBA Americas World Cup Qualifier continued Friday night at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.
VIN numbers of stolen vehicles ‘being covered with false plates’
POLICE have noticed a trend regarding stolen vehicles where suspects are covering the original VIN number with a false plate, according to Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander.
FACE TO FACE: ‘Godfather of the Flats’ committed to protecting our natural resources
LONG before climate change, conservation and sustainability became the popular catch phrases that they are today, Prescott Smith was out in the world sounding a clarion call to protect natural resources.
STATESIDE: Special counsel Jack Smith and the Elliot Ness comparison
JACK Smith is Elliott Ness. Or is he? Especially before he grew a scraggly beard, Smith resembled Kevin Costner playing the Treasury Department’s legendary crime-fighter and nemesis of notorious Chicago Depression-era gangster Al Capone, depicted by the peerless Robert DeNiro in 1987’s celebrated movie “The Untouchables.”
Minnis: Crime consultants failing
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday criticised the Ministry of National Security’s consultants on their “ineffective” performance in helping to address the country’s crime problem, saying the workers are “receiving the people’s money” but are not producing the desired results.
Motorsport mania
Team Bahamas is poised to make history for the local development of the sport when they compete in the 2022 International Automobile Federation (FIA) Motorsport Games.
FTX SPENT $300M ON PROPERTY BUYS: Court documents reveal valuation of real estate spree
A Bahamian realtor yesterday estimated that the collapsed FTX crypto currency exchange spent $250m and “probably more” on acquiring New Providence real estate, adding: “It was great while it lasted.”
WORLD VIEW: US Mid-term elections - a defining moment
DEMOCRACY is at stake in the country that proclaims itself as the world’s bastion of democracy.
Insurer: Hurricane season end ‘can’t be soon enough’
A TOP Bahamian insurance executive says the official end to the 2022 hurricane season “can’t come soon enough” given that Hurricane Ian will further “tie our hands” on premium prices for local consumers.
NPBA opening night: Rockets and Giants victorious
ON opening night when they didn’t receive their New Providence Basketball Association men’s championship rings, the Discount Distributors Rockets took their frustration out on the runners-up Commonwealth Bank Giants.
BOB chief: Bahamas ‘long way from default’
Bank of The Bahamas’ top executive says the country is “a long way away from a debt default” even though constant sovereign downgrades are “taking their toll” on the banking industry and wider economy.
Ole Miss Rebels lose by two points in Pink Flamingo Championship
IN what turned out to be a dramatic finish to a great Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championships last night at Baha Mar, the number 17-ranked Utah Utes held off the University of Mississippi Rebels 69-67 on a three-point play with just six seconds left on the clock.
Pro basketball players stand out in Spain, Balkans
In Spain, Danrad Knowles makes his debut in a new league while Lashann Higgs becomes her team’s leading scorer and in the Balkans, Zane Knowles averages a double double and Kentwan Smith’s defence stands out.
STATESIDE: The odds favour a Biden-Trump rematch
EVER since it became clear in the late spring and early summer of 2020 that Joe Biden would emerge from a crowded, desperate Democratic Party primary campaign as the challenger to Donald Trump’s bid for re-election, there has been much speculation about whether the fate of these two septuagenarians is inextricably linked.
THE KDK REPORT: Something in the tea
GROWING up on a remote family island with limited access to traditional western medicine led many indigenous Bahamians to find alternative natural cures for their medical ailments.
PM tours GoldWynn site
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis and other government officials toured the construction site of the multi-million-dollar GoldWynn hotel and residences project on Cable Beach last week to view the development’s progress.
Tough times - but people still gambling
DESPITE high inflation that has left many Bahamians scraping to make ends meet, people are still gambling, said one pioneer of the gaming industry.
Keys handed over to Pinecrest homes
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis yesterday presented the keys to new homes in the Pinecrest subdivision to 18 government, private sector and essential workers.
