Tennis: Sydney Clarke and Blazers earn 10 match wins to end season
HAVING played in her fourth tournament for the year, Sydney Clarke said she’s glad to have made the adjustment to her game from the start of her sophomore season at the University of Arlington at Birmingham.
Food process hub targets $1.8m crowd fund raising
An all-woman partnership is seeking to raise $1.8m via the ArawakX crowd funding platform and become “the regional hub” for food processing and export distribution.
Governor adjusts 2022 GDP growth to 6-8%
The Central Bank’s governor yesterday adjusted 2022 economic growth projections to 6-8 percent, with The Bahamas not expected to “fully erase” COVID’s impact before 2023 “at the earliest”.
Gov’t in Hansard review over heritage sites deal
The deputy prime minister yesterday said the Davis administration is seeking to determine whether Parliament was misled over a contract seemingly related to heritage and cultural tourism.
Tourism Minister applauds White Sands Bahamas NCAA Golf Invitational teams at the Ocean Club
ACTING Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism, Investments and Aviation (MOTIA) Chester Cooper delivers remarks at White Sands Bahamas NCAA Golf Invitationals at the Ocean Club Golf Course at Atlantis on October 31.
Pintard for FNM leader a no-brainer
THE September 16 general election was the most ho-hum since the formation of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) in 1953. The low voter turnout attest to this fact.
Do we take an apology?
Should we take a so-called apology from a politician seriously when his actions have put us all in financial jeopardy and even our country?
Bad move
The proposal to decrease Vat but add it to bread basket items, and everything else, is wrong. I saw a new government minister on the news saying, that it is an insult to poor people to assume that they only buy bread basket items, but that is what the majority of poor people can afford to buy. Many people are paid 200 or 300 dollars per week. Some people only make 150 per week and they have to pay bills and buy groceries with that.
Three-year sentence quashed over firearms
THE Court of Appeal yesterday quashed the three-year prison sentence imposed on a senior citizen who was resentenced after prosecutors appealed the $15,500 fine he was initially made to pay when he was convicted of a number of firearm and drug related offences last year.
Woman faces court accused of libel of Cabinet minister
THE woman accused of defaming former Social Services Minister Frankie Campbell was arrested when she went to a local station to speak with an officer, a court was told.
$500 marijuana fine - or go to jail
A 27-year-old man caught with $120 worth of marijuana must pay $500 to avoid two months in prison.
INSIGHT: A bloody reminder that we need more than promises in a manifesto
WHILE the pandemic along with the election and its aftermath have been front and centre in public discussion for a long time now, make no mistake – the spectre of crime has not gone away.
EDITORIAL: Time to get loud over climate change
CLIMATE change is a threat to our nation’s existence.
Free testing expands to Eleuthera
AFTER a successful launch of its free COVID- 19 testing pilot programme in Inagua, the government, in partnership with Dr Tyneil Cargill and his team at Bay Street Medical, travelled to North Eleuthera on Wednesday to help mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on that island.
Family despair at ‘senseless’ killing
A FAMILY is devastated by the “senseless” killing of 43-year-old Charles Taylor, who, they say, was an innocent bystander shot at the Platinum Sporting and Hookah Lounge at Eight Mile Rock last Tuesday.
VAT cut’s ‘modest’ jobs, growth effect
Cutting the VAT rate to 10 percent will cause “only slight improvement” in job creation and economic growth, a University of the Bahamas (UoB) study asserts, while advocating it still “be pursued’.
Insurers warn that VAT reversal ‘totally asinine’
Insurers have warned the Government it would be “totally asinine” to reintroduce VAT on residential homeowner premiums given that this will create a multi-million dollar hurricane liability for itself.
