RUGBY SEVENS – Qualifiers: Bahamas has 1-4 win loss record
RUGBY Americas North (RAN) hosted its Sevens Qualifiers over the weekend as the Thomas A Robinson National Stadium hosted the top programmes in the region looking to advance in further international competition.
Anfernee Seymour homers in debut with Dirty Birds
ANFERNEE Seymour’s 2022 season opened on a high note in his debut with Charleston Dirty Birds.
Softball community mourns death of two prominent players
IN the space of a few hours of each other, the softball community lost two prominent players in Eleuthera and in New Providence respectively on Friday.
Officials 'in dialogue' over return to normal numbers in classrooms
EDUCATION Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said officials are in dialogue with the Ministry of Health regarding when children can come in normal numbers to the classroom.
Three charged with obtaining credit by false pretenses
A professional Bahamian Chef, along with two others, was charged with obtaining credit by false pretenses in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court on Friday.
Man charged with failing to give address to officers, resisting arrest
A MAN was arraigned in a Magistrate's Court Friday after allegedly failing to give his address to officers and resisting arrest.
Woman accused of murder and attempted murder
A WOMAN, accused of the murder of another woman after a shooting in Pinewood Gardens, was arraigned in a Magistrate's Court on Friday.
UPDATED: Police investigating traffic fatality
A MAN is assisting police with investigations into a traffic fatality after turning himself in on Friday.
One year sentence for firearm related charges
A MAN was sentenced in a Magistrate's Court on Friday to one year in prison for firearm related charges after claiming to have found the loaded gun that was on him when he was arrested.
Man accused of threatening and assaulting the mother of his child
A MAN was granted bail in a Magistrate's Court on Friday on charges of threatening and assaulting the mother of his child.
Diane Phillips: Transforming an Eleuthera eyesore – a lesson for historic Nassau?
FOR 45 years, the single-storey stone building stood abandoned. Shards of glass were all that remained of what had been windows. Once the home of a local family, it slowly sank into a hideaway for rats and rodents, strewn with broken beer bottles and half-pints, blind to nefarious activity. The structure in total disrepair was not in some remote out of the way place, but in direct view of hundreds going and coming daily from Governor’s Harbour, Eleuthera to Cupid’s Cay and beyond.
A new vision
THE Bahamas always benefited from nefarious activities; giving shelter to crooks and shady characters is a historical fact. From 1698-1718, The Bahamas became the world’s capital of piracy. New Providence was sprinkled with whorehouses, motels and shops that catered to pirates. The records will bear witness to corrupt politicians, even governors, of that period, taking bribes and a share of ill-gotten loot.
EDITORIAL: Too soon to declare success in tackling murders
MURDER in our country is continuing at a pace – with two men shot dead yesterday, adding to a woman shot dead on Sunday, and following last month which was one of the deadliest months on record in our nation’s history.
Lack of lawyer means police inquests still at a halt
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe confirmed yesterday that police-related Coroner’s inquests have not yet resumed as the director of public prosecutions has yet to appoint a lawyer to marshal the cases.
‘We’ll scrap nationality bill and deal with the issues one by one’
ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder says the Davis administration plans to scrap the draft 111-page Nationality, Immigration and Asylum Bill 2018, saying while it addressed a number of different issues, the government is of the view that it was a better approach to tackle matters individually.
Five years on and roaring to success
BAHA MAR president Graeme Davis said the resort is marking its fifth year anniversary with record success as the COVID-19 pandemic appears to wane.
‘Govt is seeing success in fight to stem gang war’
THE Davis administration says it is seeing success in its fight to stem a gun war between gangs and this may be the result of the return of senior Royal Bahamas Police Force officers who were sent on leave and then on special assignments under the previous government.
Taylor Industries staff gain 33% of severance
Forty-one former staff of now-defunct Taylor Industries will receive just 33 percent of the total termination pay and benefits owed to them in what the company’s liquidator defended as “a relatively positive outcome”.
