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Clarke scores career high, Bastian and McCoy post double doubles
GARVIN Clarke posted a career-high scoring night in NCAA Division I and a pair of Bahamians posted double doubles in Division II basketball.
Burrows and Gibson post double doubles in head-to-head meeting
TWO teams headed in opposite directions - Shamar Burrows and the Dalhousie Tigers maintained their national ranking with a three-game winning streak while Qyemah Gibson and the St Mary’s Huskies lost their third game in a row.
Jonquel Jones posts 4th double double of season in FIBA EuroLeague
JONQUEL Jones posted her fourth double double of the season in her return to FIBA Women’s EuroLeague play.
Epic matchup in Battle 4 Atlantis
The inaugural Bad Boy Mowers’ Battle 4 Atlantis Women’s Tournament will conclude with an epic matchup between the top two teams in all of college basketball.
Resorts set for ‘over 90%’ Thanksgiving occupancies
Major Bahamian resorts are set to enjoy occupancies “in excess of 90 percent” over the Thanksgiving holiday, a top hotelier disclosed yesterday, adding: “We’re not looking back.”
Chanticleers open Baha Mar Hoops ‘Nassau Championship’ with victory
AHMARD Harvey had an opportunity to play an official game on Bahamian soil for the first time since his high school days but remains out of the rotation for the Coastal Carolina Chanticleers at this point in the season.
DIANE PHILLIPS: The Atlantis lesson on xenophobia
SOMEONE I highly respect reminded me recently of the reaction Bahamians had when we heard a hotel magnate from South Africa, a man known to throw lavish parties aboard a private jet and enrich himself in a land of apartheid, had purchased much of Paradise Island. Bahamians were enraged, apoplectic.
A chance to give thanks
A PRE-THANKSGIVING day event was held by Nassau Village MP Jamahl Strachan for members of the Bahamas Alliance for the Blind and Visually Impaired (BABVI).
Unvaccinated still dominate numbers
NINETY-TWO percent of the people who died or were admitted to the Princess Margaret Hospital for COVID-19 in October were unvaccinated, according to the Public Hospitals Authority.
Cruise giant in $3,000 annual PI seabed deal
Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines secured a second lease from the Minnis administration allowing it to rent three acres of seabed off Paradise Island for just $3,000 per annum, it can be revealed.
Toledo Rockets tip off ‘Nassau Championship’ with victory
THE Toledo Rockets opened a week of NCAA basketball at the inaugural Baha Mar Hoops with the first win in the series of tournaments.
Vaccines while you shop at Super Value
Super Value’s principal yesterday said he will be “very disappointed if thousands” of shoppers fail to get COVID-vaccinated at two of his stores this weekend, adding: “We must get to 100 percent.”
Bad weather may ‘knock 10-15% off’ for marinas
The Association of Bahamas Marinas (ABM) president yesterday voiced fears that anticipated bad weather may “knock 10-15 percent off” visiting boater traffic this Thanksgiving holiday.
Gov’t moving to resolve confusion over furlough
The Government is moving to resolve potential confusion over the deadline for when employers must decide whether to recall COVID-furloughed workers, a senior official said yesterday.
Furlough ‘frustration’: Workers want finality
A union president yesterday warned that the 90-day extension to the COVID furlough period is “adding to the frustration” of long-suffering workers who want “finality” for their plight.
PETER YOUNG: Hero or villain in the ending of apartheid?
EARLIER this month, the last President of South Africa under apartheid, F W de Klerk, recorded an extraordinary video which was apparently intended to establish his legacy. He had been suffering from cancer and died soon afterwards at the age of 85.
Minister’s plea to private businesses to hire govt job programme workers
STATE Public Service Minister Pia Glover-Rolle has urged private sector employers to consider engaging workers who are part of the government’s 52-week job programme.
‘Standard bearer’ bank put into administration
A Bahamian bank, whose new owners pledged it would be “a standard bearer” for the jurisdiction just eight months ago, has been placed under statutory administration by the Central Bank.
Debt, debt and debt
A past writer was spot on when he wrote and estimated that BPL’s bad accounts had to exceed $100m.
Team Bahamas back in the win column
TEAM Bahamas got back into the win column at the ITF/COTECC 12U Team Finals competition.
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