Shooting victim in hospital
A MAN is in critical condition in hospital after he was shot on Rupert Dean Lane yesterday morning.
Crocodile tears, bogus sympathies
IN recent times two young Bahamian women lost their lives in horrific circumstances before their toddlers. We all mourned their passing and made calls for justice and amendments to the law. After a few weeks those events are just a passing memory. Truly, the dead will bury the dead...
Governor General successor
There is serious significance of who will the Prime Minister nominate to follow HE Cornelius Smith as Governor General or will he allow Smith to continue for a further term through the 50th anniversary of Independence and on and the anticipated Referendum on whether The Bahamas stays a Realm State or graduates to a Democratic Republic.
Two face murder charges
TWO men were arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on separate murder charges yesterday.
American accused of firearm offences
AN AMERICAN was arraigned yesterday after he was found in Bimini in possession of nine firearms as well as extended magazines and ammunition.
Man on incest charges
A MAN was arraigned in Magistrate’s Court on charges of committing incest with his three-year-old daughter.
WORLD VIEW: The international order is broken - where are the leaders to fix it?
THE international order, which has existed, although shakily, since the end of World War II and the establishment of the Charter of the United Nations, is now severely broken.
THE KDK REPORT: A pebble in the wheel – part two
IMAGINE having chest tightness so excruciating it feels as if there’s a 300- ton crane sitting on top of you, intermittently squeezing more and more deeply and crushing your sternum making it harder to breathe. In 2019, following four years of the most agonising chest pain imaginable, my patient was wheeled into the operating theatre for her third heart surgery.
INSIGHT: Royals on the way - but what does that mean for us?
IN this column in December, we asked the question of whether we were ready or not to become a republic.
EDITORIAL: Royal visit a chance to show off our future
THERE is sometimes a tendency to naysay by force of habit.
Residents to stage protest march over deforestation
A GROUP of concerned residents is planning to march on Wednesday to protest suspected deforestation of the former Perpall Tract Wellfield located in western New Providence.
40 years - and water works start
THE MP for Mount Moriah oversaw the start of major water works in his constituency on Friday after over 40 years of water issue complaints from Melvern Road residents.
‘Impossible for young to cope’ with rising gas prices
BAHAMIANS have weighed in on rising gas prices and how they believe the current situation is starting to hit the working class hardest.
‘If your child is a criminal, turn them in to the police’
AFTER a recent spate of murders and violent crime in the country, Bishop Simeon Hall is calling for parents whose children are involved in criminal activity to do the right thing and turn them into police.
Bridge to link great and little Abacos reopened
JUBILANT Abaconians watched with pride as a ribbon was cut and a plaque unveiled to signal the formal reopening and renaming of the bridge that connects Great Abaco and Little Abaco.
COVID testing ‘not adding up’
The Government and official Opposition were last night locked in a fresh battle over assertions that Bahamian taxpayers are subsidising US tourists’ return home because the $40 health travel visa cannot cover free COVID testing.
Medical labs say COVID test model ‘unsustainable’
Medical laboratories have warned the Government they cannot continue providing COVID-19 tests unless it alters the “unsustainable” model by which they are paid via the Bahamas health travel visa.
Bahamas’ $3bn in Russian assets ‘under 1%’ of sector
The Central Bank’s governor yesterday said the nearly-$3bn in Russian-connected assets held by the Bahamas’ international financial services industry represents “less than 1 percent” of the sector’s total business.
