FOCOL to launch 5MW GB Power solar within 30 days
BISX-listed FOCOL Holdings will begin supplying Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC) with five mega watts (MW) of soalr power within the next 30 days, it was revealed last night.
IT staff protest outside OPM over outstanding unresolved promotions and regularisations
STAFF of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) yesterday staged a protest outside the Office of the Prime Minister over outstanding promotions and regularisations.
Smith backtracks on Grand Lucayan ‘non-sale’ remarks
WEST Grand Bahama and Bimini MP Kingsley Smith backtracked yesterday on remarks he made about the sale of the Grand Lucayan resort after telling reporters the transaction had not happened despite government officials saying otherwise.
Rhema Collins named CUSA Player of the Week for third time this year
BAHAMAS forward Rhema Collins continues to excel in her transfer year as a junior with the Florida international University Panthers women’s basketball team.
Ex-minister: Corporate income tax 'inevitable' if PLP win the election
A former Cabinet minister yesterday asserted that the imposition of corporate income tax on all Bahamian businesses is “inevitable” if the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) wins the upcoming general election.
Repeat offender accused of theft at Dr Duane Sands' home
A REPEAT offender accused of stealing from and trespassing on the property of FNM chairman Dr Duane Sands was remanded to prison yesterday.
FOAM president says celebrate your birthday by donating blood
NEARLY every day, another flyer circulates appealing for blood donations for someone in need — young or old — a reality that has prompted Khandi Gibson, president of Families of All Murder Victims (FOAM), to challenge the public to mark their birthdays by giving a pint of blood.
The quiet victims - kids left behind by murder
AS a new month begins, some children in The Bahamas are still learning how to live without a mother or father taken by murder — and the relatives now raising them are doing so while grieving themselves.
FNM demands answers after BGC 'denied access' during blackout
FREE National Movement Senator Michela Barnett-Ellis is demanding answers from the Davis administration following claims by Bahamas Grid Company (BGC) that it was denied access to the New Providence Control Center during the weekend’s island-wide power outage.
Unlawfully detained Guyanese man awarded $75K settlement
A SUPREME Court judge has ruled that a Guyanese man was unlawfully detained for more than three months in 2006 under an invalid deportation order and in conditions that breached his constitutional rights, awarding him $75,000 in damages but rejecting his claims that his later arrest, prosecution and year-long imprisonment on bribery charges were unlawful.
'It looked like he was begging for his life'
DEANGELO “Ducky” Burrows was shot seven times on a Grand Bahama street Saturday night, wounds his family says suggest he was begging for his life.
'Uber coming' despite taxi union resistance
A BUSINESSMAN says he is bringing Uber to the country despite resounding opposition from the Bahamas Taxi Cab Union.
Bahamas ‘in far darker place’ in unregulated medicine sale
The Bahamas is in “a far darker place than a decade ago” over the sale of unapproved and ‘grey market’ medicines, an ex-health minister asserted yesterday, adding: “The pirates are still here.”
Two women charged in $65K Abaco 'Crown land' scam
TWO Grand Bahama women have been charged with defrauding 15 Abaco residents of more than $65,000 in cash in connection with the alleged sale of Crown land.
Weekend fire guts family-owned hotel
HEARTBREAK struck a Bimini family on Sunday after a fast-moving fire tore through their decades-old family hotel at a time it was in the process of being sold.
Two stepfathers remanded for alleged sexual assault of minors
TWO men accused in separate cases of having sex with their underaged stepdaughters were remanded to prison yesterday.
FNM to ratify eight candidates as election race heats up
THE Free National Movement (FNM) plans to ratify at least eight candidates tonight, including Shanendon Cartwright and Carlton Bowleg, who are set for the newly created constituencies.
Man and woman's bail set $100K in $2.6m Bimini drug bust
A MAN and a woman accused in a $2.6 million cocaine bust in Bimini last week were granted bail yesterday.
Man gets five years for rifle and ammo stash
A MAN was sentenced to five years in prison yesterday after admitting he had a prohibited rifle and more than 100 rounds of ammunition near his home on Zirconia Court last week.
FACING REALITY: Simple fact - you can't reach the First World with a Third World mentality
THERE'S a phrase that gets tossed around casually in Caribbean conversations: “third world.”
