Dwight Tinker bags his first hole-in-one
OUTSIDE of winning a title, the next greatest accomplishment a golfer looks forward to achieving is a Hole-In-One shot.
Father jumps from Disney cruise ship to save daughter who went overboard
A FATHER dived in to the sea to save his daughter after she fell from a Disney Cruise Line ship on its way back to Fort Lauderdale from a four-night Bahamas sailing, it has been reported.
Energy reform ‘coming together like clockwork’
Electricity generation reform on New Providence is “coming together like clockwork”, FOCOL Holdings’ top executive is asserting, after sealing a near-$100m deal backed by a US government institution.
Gov’t ‘can’t have it both ways’ over Fund $300m
The Opposition’s finance spokesman last night argued the Government “cannot have it both ways” over its forecast $75.5m Budget surplus and $300m plan to capitalise the National Investment Fund.
Briland ‘nightmare’ after week-long BPL outages
Briland residents yesterday voiced fears of a diesel fuel shortage after a “nightmare” week of on/off Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) supply culminated in an island-wide outage on Saturday.
Woman killed and child injured in triple shooting
ONE woman is dead and a woman and a child are injured after a shooting on Sunday night.
Minnis: I am the leader this moment requires
AMID ongoing speculation about his political future, former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis told his Killarney constituents on Friday that he won’t be “pushed aside” when there’s still work to be done—declaring himself the leader “this moment requires”.
BTVI students upset over strict graduation rules
As the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) prepares to hold its graduation ceremony this week, some students are voicing frustration over the institution’s “strict” graduation rules and criticising what they describe as a dismissive response to their concerns.
FNMs ‘chose Moss - but got Henfield’
EXECUTIVES of the Free National Movement’s South Beach Constituency Association have criticised the party’s leadership for ignoring their candidate recommendations for the upcoming general election, saying they were completely “caught off guard” by the party’s decision to ratify Darren Henfield for the seat instead.
GAIN AN EDGE: Montayanna Major - Moving with purpose
For Montayanna Major, movement is more than a function of the human body, it’s a window into healing, empowerment, and change.
Integrate risk to avoid the harm with change
Business transformation is no longer optional. Whether driven by digital disruption, market shifts or internal inefficiencies, change is constant.
BPL bill decline for businesses ‘total hogwash’
An ex-Cabinet minister has blasted it is “total hogwash” for the Government to boast it has reduced business energy costs with his firm now paying an all-in rate 45.8 percent higher than in October 2022.
Decathlete Kendrick ‘Bionic Man’ Thompson bounces back in action
AFTER surviving a boat accident and a shark bite that prevented him from competing last year, decathlete Kendrick Thompson, now known as the “Bionic Man,” has shown his resilience and fortitude to bounce back.
Sports Calendar: June 2025
Monday, June 30, 2025
Annual pre-Independence Day Beat Retreat
CROWDS in Bahamian colours swarmed Rawson and Parliament Squares on Sunday as the RBPF and RBDF held the annual Beat Retreat in the lead-up to this year’s Independence Day.
INSIGHT: Political season begins in earnest
THE unveiling of candidates for the upcoming election has inevitably got tongues wagging – but the list of MP hopefuls for the FNM can tell us as much about how the party intends to govern as the chances of them doing so.
COI ratify five additional candidates including Lewis
THE Coalition of Independents (COI) ratified five new candidates for the next general election on Saturday, including former Free National Movement (FNM) member Iram Lewis, bringing the party closer to completing its full slate of candidates.
Maddison repeats as the female national champion
While Maddison Carroll repeated as the female national champion, Lynford Miller became the first president of the Bahamas Golf Federation to win the male national title.
