Local charities share $150,000 raised by ‘Comedy for a Cause
SEVERAL local charities received a combined $150,443 yesterday from Heather and David Kosoy at a ceremony at Hurricane Hole, with recipient organisations outlining plans to expand food security, youth development, and residential care programmes.
Nurses Union chief says new facility won’t solve overcrowding at PMH
BAHAMAS Nurses Union president Muriel Lightbourne said the $201m loan secured for constructing a new specialty hospital should instead be directed to urgent gaps across the existing healthcare network, insisting the country cannot adequately staff or manage its current facilities and that the planned hospital will not relieve system-wide overcrowding.
Pinder: Looting of barge will not reduce environmental fines
ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder has rejected the notion that losses suffered by the Brooklyn Bridge barge through theft should reduce the owners’ obligation to pay environmental fines, saying looting is “private action by private individuals” and entirely “unrelated” to regulatory enforcement over reef damage.
Pinder: Smuggling Bill does not give migrants new rights
ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder yesterday defended the Smuggling of Migrants Bill 2025 as a measure designed to target criminal networks, rejecting claims that the Bill grants migrants new rights to remain or receive legal status in The Bahamas.
Officer testifies dad failed to restrain son in fatal incident
THE prosecution yesterday closed its case in the manslaughter by negligence trial of Denargio Thurston, who is accused of causing the death of his two-year-old son after the child became trapped in his car’s power window while being driven along Old Trail Road in August 2023.
‘Why did he do this?’ - family shock after man found dead
RELATIVES have spoken of their shock after finding a 61-year-old man dead with a cord around his neck in what police believe is a suicide.
It’s ‘like watchin him die again’
A GRIEVING mother says she was blindsided by the collapse of her eight-year-old son’s murder trial, describing the shock of learning through social media that the accused had been acquitted as a blow so painful it “feel like the day I watched my child bleed out.”
The New Legend, Lonesome Dove, Sassie Sue and Miss Agnes take early leads in Best-of-the-Best Regatta
THE New Legend, Lonesome Dove, Sassie Sue and Miss Agnes took the early leads in their respective classes of the Ministry of Agriculture & Marine Resources/Regatta Desk’s 2025 Best-of-the-Best Regatta.
Family Island hotel chief urges sweeping cost cuts
The Bahama Out Island Promotion Board’s president yesterday called for a co-ordinated national strategy to lower costs and improve efficiency so that the tourism industry remains competitive as he warned the sector cannot remain viable without sweeping expense reductions.
Realtor teams with developer on Lyford Hills second phase
A Bahamian realtor has teamed with Lyford Hills to officially launch the second phase of the western New Providence community’s development with a mixture of single family and multi-family lots.
New construction permits exceed $1bn value mark
The Bahamas last year breached the $1bn mark in the value of new construction permits issued, it was revealed yesterday, as their collective value increased by $305m compared to 2023.
Bahamas’ perfect anti-financial crime score can ‘all be undone very quickly'
A Cabinet minister yesterday warned that The Bahamas’ perfect compliance with the 40 recommendations set by the world’s anti-money laundering standard setter can “all be undone very quickly” as this nation prepares for its fifth round of assessments.
IAN FERGUSON: How Bahamian companies overcome labour shortages
As The Bahamas continues to experience a persistent shortage of skilled labour, local businesses are being pushed to rethink how they recruit, retain and manage talent.
‘Raw’ wins by second-round second-round decision in decision in Dubai fight
RASHIELD “Raw” Williams, the lone Bahamian competing at the IBA Men's World Boxing Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, won his first bout with a convincing second round decision yesterday.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Finding "the giver" inside of us this holiday season
EVERY circle of friends, every office, every school, civic club or church has them – the folks who show up and do what is expected of them,
American woman fined $8,000 for loaded gun on cruise ship
AN American woman was fined $8,000 yesterday after admitting she had a loaded gun in her purse on a cruise ship docked in New Providence on Tuesday.
‘Passports are hard to get, not easy,’ says Foreign Affairs Minister
FOREIGN Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell said the government is bolstering passport security as it advances plans for a new passport office, rejecting opposition assertions that safeguards around passport issuance are lax.
Public promised smoother process with 3,000 extra Junkanoo tickets
MORE than 3,000 additional Junkanoo tickets will be available to the public this year as the National Junkanoo Committee (NJC) and ALIV announced an expansion of seating and significant upgrades to the ALIV Events app following intermittent public frustration with the ticket-buying process in recent years.
AI adoption is only way for Bahamas to compete
Adoption and use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools is the only way The Bahamas will be able to compete globally, a technology specialist argued yesterday.
