Pintard: Speaker owes NEMA director an apology
OFFICIAL Opposition Leader Michael Pintard says House Speaker Patricia Deveaux owes National Emergency Management Agency Director Captain Stephen Russell an apology.
Two injured in shooting at church
A SHOOTING incident took place at Grace Community Church in Marathon on Thursday evening resulting in two men being taken to hospital.
Four teens accused of Quinton McKenzie's murder
FOUR teens appeared in a Magistrate’s Court accused of murder.
23 Cuban migrants charged with illegal landing
Twenty-three Cuban migrants were charged this week in Freeport Magistrate’s Court with illegal landing in the Bahamas.
Woman jailed for making false rape report
A WOMAN was sentenced to two months in prison for making a false rape report and was told that she did a “very wicked thing.”
Man pleads not guilty to indecent assault of university students
A MAN pleaded not guilty to two counts of indecent assault of two female university students.
BPL Skyguard Severe Weather Alert 10th June: Freeport
STARTS: 06/10/2022 8:30 PM EDT EXPIRES: 06/11/2022 1:00 AM EDT
DIANE PHILLIPS: Green high-top Converse a symbol of pain too much to bear
For a moment last Tuesday, Mathew McConaughey could have run for and been elected President of the United States. For a moment, the Oscar-winning actor took us all where we needed to be – in the heart of Uvalde, Texas where on May 24, a deranged 18-year-old brandishing an AR15 walked into an elementary school and for 40 minutes before the SWAT team arrived went on a killing spree, leaving 19 children and two teachers dead.
EDITORIAL: Union unrest amid economic uncertainty
TEACHERS ready for industrial action, nurses voting for industrial action – it looks like there are rocks ahead amid talk of the economy flowing again.
Moxey hails $3.7m for new unit
GRAND Bahama Minister Ginger Moxey says $3.7m allocated for a new unit called Collab: Partnerships for Development would bring “impactful change” to her Ministry and Grand Bahama.
Temporary kitchen donated to NEMA
US NORTHERN Command has delivered a third temporary kitchen unit to The Bahamas’ National Emergency Management Agency before the start of the 2022 Hurricane Season.
Cancelled: BPL Skyguard Severe Weather Alert 10th June: Freeport
STARTS: 06/10/2022 2:30 PM EDT EXPIRES: 06/10/2022 4:17 PM EDT
A candle for Quinton
A CANDLELIGHT vigil was held last night in remembrance of Quinton McKenzie, 13, who died last Friday morning after he was hit in his head by two bullets.
Second tragedy for family
THE uncle of a 10-year-old boy who was murdered last year, was himself shot dead on Wednesday night.
Stem cell pioneer: Just 3% of claims accepted
Less than 3 percent of $16.5m in creditor claims against a Freeport business, once hailed for pioneering The Bahamas’ entry into the stem cell therapy industry, had been accepted as at end-May 2022.
‘Still among leaders’: But Bahamas’ FDI down 60%
The Bahamas is “still among the leaders” despite a United Nations (UN) agency yesterday revealing that foreign direct investment inflows to this nation declined by 60 percent year-over-year in 2021 to $360m.
Vehicle theft claims ‘out of the ordinary’
A Bahamian insurer says an “out of the ordinary” increase in motor vehicle theft claims was among the principal factors why it missed profit projections for 2021.
Gov’t hails 69% VAT rise: Rate cut works
The Government is hailing its VAT rate cut for producing a 62.8 percent year-over-year increase in revenues to $299m for the three month period that closed at end-March 2022.
