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FRONT PORCH – Collective responsibility: The Bahamas Prime Minister is not Chief Executive

WITHOUT appropriate language we cannot conceive, understand and communicate ideas and values. It is important that we get our language right. We often get our language and our thinking muddled and just plain wrong in constitutional matters.

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Strategies for resolving customer service failure

Dealing with customer service failure is an inevitable part of running a business. It is how you handle these situations that can make all the difference in maintaining customer satisfaction.

Why is there a need for a Constitutional referendum?

If law is simply changed up to the accused decision why is there a need of a Constitutional referendum?

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Court of Appeal dismisses application to prevent key witness testifying

THE Court of Appeal yesterday dismissed an application from Adrian Gibson and his co-defendants seeking to prevent a key witness from testifying in their criminal trial.

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Justifiable homicide ruling in Kwondrick Lowe case

A CORONER’S Court jury returned a unanimous finding of justifiable homicide yesterday concerning the police-involved killing of 18-year-old Kwondrick Lowe near Kemp Road in 2023.

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‘Kwondrick died from gunshot wounds to his head and body’

A PATHOLOGIST testified that 18-year-old Kwondrick Lowe died from gunshot injuries to his head and torso last year as the inquest into the police-involved killing continued yesterday.

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Colombian accuses Miller of threatening him with a gun

A COLOMBIAN man alleged that former Police Staff Association chairman Sonny Miller, 46, threatened him with a gun after the US Coast Guard caught them with 181lb of cocaine in Acklins in 2022.

Best of the Best Basketball Classic: Who will be the last team standing?

THE CR Walker Knights swept aside the St John’s Giants in the all- New Providence senior girls’ best-of-three final of the Best of the Best Basketball Classic on Saturday night.

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Horse trainer Larry Demeritte makes history

From Governor’s Harbour in the Bahamas to Louisville, Kentucky, USA, here comes trainer Larry Demeritte.

Junior baseball team ‘didn’t play well enough’

FOR a team that wasn’t supposed to be in the Dominican Republic, Bahamas Baseball Association president Theodore Sweeting said they couldn’t be happier with the way Team Bahamas performed at the World Baseball Softball Confederation’s Under-15 Baseball Pan American Tournament.

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Officer shed tears over video shown at inquest

A POLICE officer choked up and cried in court as she recalled when a fellow officer killed 18-year-old Kwondrick Lowe near Kemp Road last year as the Coroner’s Court inquest into the killing continued yesterday.

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Juniors advance to next round of Fidelity Spring Classic Tourney

THE Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s (BLTA) 2024 Fidelity Spring Classic Tournament is off to a rousing start for juniors at the National Tennis Centre (NTC).

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Govt defends $192k new BMW for PM

THE Office of the Prime Minister defended government’s purchase of a $192,000 BMW for the prime minister after people debated the appropriateness of buying the luxury car when many struggle with the cost of living.

New Providence Public Primary Schools Sports Association volleyball playoffs begin today

THE stage is now set for the playoffs in the New Providence Public Primary Schools Sports Association’s 2024 Volleyball Tournament.

Best of the Best: Rattlers, Cougars off to Grand Bahama

THE Government Secondary Schools Sports Association champions CI Gibson Rattlers and the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools champions Charles W Saunders Cougars will headline the teams leaving town for Grand Bahama this weekend.

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Sandilands and Centreville Primary girls and boys volleyball champions

SANDILANDS Primary and Centreville Primary emerged as the girls and boys champions of the New Providence Public Primary Schools Sports Association’s 2024 volleyball championships.

Bethel and Charlton are leading the way

Grand Bahamian sprinter Brianne Bethel is back, just in time for a shot at her second appearance at the Olympic Games.

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Shock as tornado hits woman’s home

A TORNADO ripped through Deidre Miller’s South Ocean Boulevard home on Saturday, leaving behind a damaged roof, shattered glass and torn-down doors.

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Court of Appeal denies govt appeal in matter of former officer in wrongful arrest case

THE Court of Appeal refused to grant the government leave to appeal to the Privy Council after the courts found that a former police officer was entitled to damages because he was wrongfully arrested and detained by his colleagues in 2016.

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Students learn how to farm

STUDENTS at Preston Albury High School, Rock Sound, Eleuthera, have been showcasing their crops.