Bail granted in firearm possession case
A MAN was granted $3,000 bail yesterday after allegedly being found by police with a loaded pistol over the summer.
Cat Island
This letter is addressed to the attention of our Prime Minister of the Bahamas, also the representative of Cat Island.
Voucher system to help children’s development
A CONTRACT for the universal pre-primary education, public private pre-school partnership programme was signed yesterday at the Ministry of Education.
Team Bahamas named for 4th Caribbean Baseball Cup
Team Bahamas is ready to take on the region at the 4th Caribbean Baseball Cup.
Three more athletes added to Walk of Fame
WORLD and Olympic champions Shaunae Miller- Uibo and Steven Gardiner and their World Relays’ mixed relay gold medal teammate Anthonique Strachan were the latest athletes added to the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture’s Legends Walk of Fame.
Best of the Best regatta sets sail in Montagu
THE Ministry of Agriculture’s return of the Best of the Best Regatta kicked off yesterday in Montagu Bay.
Undefeated Cavaliers secure 40-31 win over Freedom Baptist Warriors
IT was another day in the office for coach Wilton Johnson and his Mt Carmel Cavaliers senior boys basketball team last night.
50th Carifta Games set for April 7-10
AMIDST the backdrop of the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium, the Local Organising Committee (LOC) officially launched the hosting of the 50th CARIFTA Games to commemorate the Bahamas’ 50th anniversary of Independence.
Jamaal Rolle: Legends Walk of Fame ‘serves as landmark for the country’
BAHAMIAN celebrity artist Jamaal Rolle may have outdone himself in producing the 69 portraits of past and present Bahamian sporting superstars for the relaunch of the Legends Walk of Fame outside of the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium.
IAN FERGUSON: Exploit public relations to drive customer traffic
Clarity is critical in all kinds of business communications, yet can be difficult to achieve. Unlike paid marketing programmes such as advertising, public relations is focused on earned media and can take advantage of unpaid communications channels. Public relations is about managing perceptions, namely how people think about your business.
Bahamas eyes travel ease for Saudi and Middle East
THE deputy prime minister has suggested that visa waivers and electronic visas will be some of the tools employed to boost travel to The Bahamas from Saudi Arabia and other Middle East states.
Aviation optimistic over ‘booked solid’ Christmas
BAHAMIAN aviation operators yesterday said they were optimistic a “booked solid” Christmas period will escape the flight delays and clogged airport ramp that impacted last year’s festive period.
Grand Lucayan: Focus on buyer not maximum price
THE Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce’s president yesterday argued that the Government should drop its obsession with maximising the Grand Lucayan’s sales price and instead focus on finding the right buyer.
Sensible plan?
IS government development of housing in a country, especially on New Providence with very little useable real estate left, the policy of this Government and of the past sensible?
STATESIDE: The Bahamas makes front page news after FTX collapse
A FRIEND and Bahamaphile was unhappy on Monday morning. “Did you see the headline on the front page of the Washington Post?” she exclaimed. “The Bahamas was mentioned in a near-banner headline, front page, top of the fold, the first thing a reader saw that day. And guess why? The Post sent a reporter down to Nassau to investigate the collapse of this now-bankrupt cryptocurrency firm FTX that had set up its headquarters out west in Albany.
FRONT PORCH: Making good public policy is hard work
WE often cook up public policy in The Bahamas in a similar manner to which an unsatisfying and innutritious meal is slapped together. There is little forethought, no clear recipe, with all kinds of slam bam ingredients hurriedly mixed together.
Goodman’s Bay Park ‘an eyesore’
GOODMAN’S Bay Park has become an eyesore as some residents have complained about the distressed state the park’s playground is in.
EDITORIAL: FTX founder’s long list of unknowns
FOR someone in charge of a multi-billion operation, Sam Bankman-Fried seems to not know a lot of things.
‘Stop union-busting’
UNION leaders yesterday called on the Davis administration to stop its “union busting tactics” calling the government’s recent announcement about forthcoming salary increases for public servants that were reportedly made without consultation “a blatant disregard for unions”.
