In ‘The Lab’ with Marvin Henfield gets good reviews from participants, parents
MARVIN Henfield’s open house for his new shooting “lab” on Saturday at the former Caribbean Bottling Company’s warehouse got a lot of good reviews from both parents and participants of his Caribbean Sports Academy (CSA).
Ole Miss projected no.6 in preseason coaches poll
YOLETT McPhee-McCuin and her Ole Miss Rebels are expected to improve in one of the most keenly contested conferences in all of NCAA Division I.
CEC Sand Dollars, Mariposa Gold Drops are winners in first horse show of year
SEVEN teams competed in the Bahamas Interscholastic Equestrian League (BIEL) show hosted by the LCIS Dragons at Mariposa Stables on Saturday.
PETER YOUNG: With the world watching, will our leaders rise to the challenge?
ITALY and Scotland have been the focus of international diplomacy this past week. Rome hosted the two-day G20 meeting of the world’s wealthiest countries, and this was followed on Sunday by the official opening of the UN Climate Change Conference, COP26, in Glasgow, with most of the G20 leaders travelling there direct from their Rome meeting.
FACE TO FACE: A tragic price paid for those who won’t take the vaccine
WHEN Erin Bethell-Jones assisted her grandmother, Janey with receiving her vaccine for protection against COVID-19, it was a proud moment. She wanted her to be safe in a pandemic and live as many healthy happy years as she could. However, last month Janey passed away from a non-COVID-related issue. What tore Erin up is that she felt her grandmother would still be alive if an ambulance was able to come for her.
EDITORIAL: Out with the orders, in with the rules
THE move away from emergency orders has begun.
Company supports women in their fight against breast cancer
MANY Grand Bahamian women currently in the war against breast cancer were recently gifted with care packages from Freeport Insurance Agents and Brokers.
Atlantis rewards rising tennis stars
Sarae Rodgers and Maddison Bowleg, rising young players out of the Mark Knowles Tennis Bahamas programme, were rewarded by Atlantis Resorts yesterday for their victory and runner-up position at two separate (USTA) tournaments in Florida and Virginia respectively last month.
Glover-Rolle: Probe into why some workers overlooked
PUBLIC Service State Minister Pia Glover-Rolle said her ministry will be investigating cases where public service workers were overlooked for promotions “in favour of others” to ensure proper procedures were followed.
Cooper: Tourism on the up since November 2020
TOURISM, Investments and Aviation Minister Chester Cooper revealed yesterday that tourist arrivals have been on “an upward trajectory” since last November despite the economic fall-out from COVID-19.
Prospect Ridge housing project defended by Minnis
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis defended the Prospect Ridge housing project in the House of Assembly yesterday, saying much work had been done to realise his vision of an affordable, but upscale community for young people.
Gov’t ‘reaching ceiling’ on debt
The Government may be reaching its debt limits given that such liabilities are now bigger than the economy, the Debt Advisory Committee’s head warned yesterday.
Ex-Board defends BPL’s $535m bond
Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) outgoing Board yesterday pushed back against the Davis administration’s bid to kill-off the utility’s $535m refinancing by defending it as the “optimal solution”.
COVID loan defaults ‘not as bad as feared’
The Central Bank’s governor yesterday said the rise in COVID-related loan delinquencies is not as bad as feared with the increase set to fall “well below” the previous 15 percent peak.
‘Stressed’ oil explorer facing a $19m deficit
The oil explorer seeking to renew four drilling licences in Bahamian waters yesterday admitted it is in “a stressed financial position” with outstanding bills exceeding its cash resources by $19m.
Debt consolidation leads loan requests
Bahamians are struggling to finance “big ticket items”, the Central Bank’s governor said yesterday, given that debt consolidation accounts for 36 percent of all consumer loan applications.
PM tells COP26: Do what is needed, not what you can get away with
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis called on world leaders to take concrete action on climate change as he spoke at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland on Tuesday.
Speaker: Points of order must wait until after govt communication
HOUSE Speaker Patricia Deveaux has warned parliamentarians that points of order will not evolve as a “weapon to stifle debate or otherwise deprive a member of his right to be respectfully heard”.
Mitchell: Stick to issues and don’t bash former govt
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party chairman Fred Mitchell has advised his new colleagues to stick to important national issues and refrain from bashing the former government when making contributions in Parliament, thanking the Governor General for the Speech from the Throne.
