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Tiktok creators could sue over ban

Eight TikTok content creators sued the US government on Tuesday, issuing another challenge to the new federal law that would ban the popular social media platform nationwide if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell its stakes within a year.

Will AI replace doctors who read X-rays, or just make them better?

How good would an algorithm have to be to take over your job?

Gov’t awards 43 sustainable food grants

Forty-three fishermen and farmers have been presented with sustainable food grants by a variety of government agencies.

Police seize $400k of Marijuana, three men held

THREE Bahamians are in police custody following the seizure of more than $400,000 worth of suspected marijuana during a drug bust in Grand Bahama.

Police testify Collins was a suspect, but friends say he had no gun when he was shot

AN officer testified that Aliko Collins was a suspect in an attempted kidnapping of a woman on Cowpen Road just before he was shot and killed by an off-duty officer in Pinewood Gardens in 2017.

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Four teams ‘in the hunt’ for GSSSA soccer title

Four teams remain in the hunt for the 2024 Government Secondary Schools Sports Association (GSSSA) junior girls and boys soccer championships.

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Pedestrians intervene to stop woman jumping from the bridge

A WOMAN tried to jump from the Sir Sidney Poitier Bridge while holding her two-year-old daughter yesterday before pedestrians intervened to stop her before police arrived.

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Evan Fox ‘suffered a self-inflicted wound’, say police

POLICE said Evan Fox, a man who was reported missing last month before he was found dead near his truck in bushes of Frank Watson Boulevard, committed suicide.

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‘One-stop solution’ to BPL woes re-floated

A “quick one-stop solution” for The Bahamas’ energy crisis was yesterday re-floated by a local attorney who argued it could resolve cost, reliability and environmental woes “within months”.

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‘Vexatious litigation’ delayed rescue of starving dolphins

AGRICULTURE and Marine Resources Minister Jomo Campbell defended government’s efforts to rescue five dolphins from Blackbeard’s Cay.

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Bahamas Independence signatory and former MP Loftus Roker dead at 88

LOFTUS Roker, an Acklins native whose tough approach to illegal immigration and drug trafficking made him a defining political figure in his era, died yesterday at 88.

Heartbreaking rise in suicides and attempts

A SERIES of stories about suspected suicides have featured in The Tribune recently – and each is genuinely heartbreaking.

Pintard is not young generation

TWO weeks prior, the FNM and the nation at large witnessed two individuals whom I hold in high regard step up to vie for the position of leading our party into the upcoming general election.

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Hack returns to Nassau

A STEM camp is slated to return this summer.

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Keric Rolle is leading the way for Bahamians

Keric Rolle is breaking barriers in the field of actuarial science, becoming one of a few Bahamians to attain the Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) designation.

Credit unions are warned over credit bureau rethink

Bahamian credit unions have been warned that the country’s first-ever credit bureau will require all financial institutions to “rethink the way we do business”.

$4m microgrid project set to boost east GB

East Grand Bahama residents are set to benefit from a proposed $4m microgrid project that will create 50 construction jobs during the 12-month build out.

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'Social warrior and source of moral clarity' - Former National Security and Immigration minister Loftus Roker dies at 88

Former Minister of National Security and Immigration, and one of the signatories to The Bahamas Constitution, A. Loftus Roker has died.

Apprenticeship initiative to get persons ‘off the streets’

The newly-launched apprenticeship initiative is designed to provide Bahamian companies with well-trained, certified employees at no cost to themselves as it bids to take persons “off the streets”.

‘Is PM’s silence what we can expect in GBPA takeover?’

A prominent attorney has questioned whether the Government’s refusal to engage with a Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) licensee group signals it has “no plan” for Freeport’s future development.