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Andros Chickcharnies take lead after first day of golf
AFTER the first day of the sixth Bahamas Games’ golf competition at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island, the Andros Chickcharnies have taken a slight lead over the other eight teams in the field.
Andros Chickcharnies in the lead after day 2
Bahamas Games golf tournament at Ocean Club on Paradise Island
THE Andros Chickcharnies are still holding onto the lead after two days of competition in the 6th Bahamas Games golf tournament at the Ocean Club on Paradise Island.
Rest in peace softball player ‘Suzy Q’
THE Grand Bahama softball community is mourning the loss of one of its finest players - Suzanne “Suzy Q” Adderley.
Roadrunners Track & Field blaze through an epic AAU
ANOTHER track and field season has come to an end with the Roadrunners Track & Field Club blazing their way through an epic performance at the annual AAU Club Championship in Orlando, Florida.
Andros Chickcharnies take home gold in golf
Grand Bahama Lucayans secure silver, NP Buccaneers win bronze
THE Chickcharnies will carry the sixth Bahamas Games team gold medal home to Andros.
Country’s lack of capacity to analyse rape kits criticised
BAHAMAS Crisis Centre Director Dr Sandra Dean-Patterson said for the last 30 years, sufficient capacity to analyse the evidence in rape kits has not existed, resulting in sexually assaulted victims being vigorously interrogated in court to prove their case.
Swimming Nationals: Mako earn 5th straight title with landslide win
BAHAMAS Aquatics completed a successful four days of competition of its 51st National Swimming Championships on Sunday at the Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex.
EDITORIAL: Implementing crime crackdown not easy
THE hurdles faced in implementing any crackdown in crime are challenging – and in today’s Tribune we see a glimpse of the difficulty, and a hint of the price people may be asked to pay.
Ex-US embassy property targeted for 48-slip marina
A prominent Bahamian contractor is seeking approvals to dredge more than 40,000 cubic yards of fill to make way for a 48-slip marina located at the rear of a former US embassy property opposite Arawak Cay.
Lucozade Sprint Classic brings out the cyclists
THE New Providence Cycling Association hosted its Race Series 2024 with the Lucozade Sprint Classic on Sunday around the western end of New Providence.
Grand Bahama senior boys steal spotlight
As the Providence Basketball Club’s 24th Yuletide Classic continued yesterday at the CI Gibson Gymnasium, the two senior boys teams from Grand Bahama took the spotlight.
Three questioned over Abaco shooting
Police are questioning three people in connection with the shooting incident that occurred on Green Turtle Key, Abaco on Friday. A 39-year-old man, a 49-year-old man and a 48-year-old woman were arrested around 6am on Friday in Green Turtle Cay. A firearm, believed to be the weapon used in the incident, was also confiscated.
WORLD VIEW: Breaking the OECD hold on global tax governance
“THE Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is nothing less than a Club of the world’s wealthiest countries which is determined to bend powerless countries to its will”. I wrote that statement in 2002 after four years of negotiations with the OECD against its unilateral imposition of a regime to counter what it called the ‘Harmful Tax Competition Initiative (HTCI)”, launched in 1998.
‘DODGING JURY DUTY IS SLOWING JUSTICE': Davis encourages people to carry out their civic duties
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said a significant challenge to swift justice is the avoidance of jury duty.
DETENTION ‘IS PRICE WE PAY’: Munroe says wrongful identification and arrest a ‘potential inconvenience’
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said though facial recognition CCTVs may wrongly identify someone as a criminal, “being arrested on suspicion and being held up to 48 hours is part of the price we pay for living in a free, democratic, orderly society”.
Project fills ‘10-year void’ for upper middle housing
A south-west New Providence development was yesterday said to be filling a “ten-year void” in the middle class housing market after clinching $13m in lot sales during its first three months.
Christian Council shows up at ‘LGBT’ lecture it opposed
ALL was calm when a sociologist delivered a lecture at a University of The Bahamas LGBT-related forum yesterday until officials opened the floor for questions and answers.
Wendy’s tells Town Planning: No more PI project mistakes
Wendy’s is urging the planning authorities to take “great care” to ensure approval for a Paradise Island restaurant, which could create between 75-100 total jobs, is not again derailed by procedural irregularities.
A HEARTFELT FAREWELL TO THE 'DIVINE LADY’: Gospel artist and journalist Vanessa Clarke dies age 48
The Bahamian gospel and media communities are mourning the death of award-winning singer and journalist Vanessa Clarke. Vanessa, who was known as the “Divine Lady” for her singing, died this past weekend after bat- tling a degenerative neurological disorder for many years. She was 48 years old. She is survived her husband Volare and two young daughters, V’ajha and V’lori.
GIRL KIDNAPPED BY SEX ATTACKER: Family says 9-year-old traumatised after man told her to get in his car
THE sister of a young girl sexually assaulted over the weekend says the incident has left the child traumatised and the family struggling to cope.
