Candidates make their cases in Grand Bahama
GRAND Bahama candidates are continuing to canvas in their respective constituencies sharing their plans with constituents who will be heading to the polls next month to vote.
Canon calls for funerals to be held inside churches
CANON Crosley Walkine has urged the government to allow families to have funerals inside churches.
Stolen wedding gifts found in ceiling of neighbour
A WOMAN’S stolen wedding gifts were found stashed in the ceiling of one of her neighbour’s homes, a court was told.
‘I hit car that ran a red light’
A MAN said he “totalled” his car when he “t-boned” another vehicle that had run through a red light.
Teenager accused of being a ‘Peeping Tom’
A TEENAGER accused of being a “Peeping Tom” was yesterday remanded to prison pending a bail hearing.
PLP using Trump’s playbook
It is quite depressing to reflect on the journey that the Republican Party has taken since the days of the American Civil War. It was once the party of Abraham Lincoln that ended slavery in the United States. Today it is the party of Donald Trump and uses anger, fear, conspiracy theories and fake news to whip up the emotions of a section of society that is shrinking and getting more desperate by the day.
RBC’s awful customer service
I nominate RBC for the “Worst Customer Service of the Year Award.”
Olympic champion Gardiner settles for 3rd in the 200m
Steven Gardiner, still celebrating his triumph in the men’s 400 metres at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, dropped down to his first love in the 200m yesterday at the Wanda Diamond League. But the double Bahamian national record holder had to settle for third place.
Knowles-Tener and Cavaliers return to full regular season
RONDRE Knowles-Tener and his Virginia-Wise Cavaliers football programme return to a full regular season for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
MLB.com ranks Reckley No.9 on international prospects list
ANOTHER major publication has projected Ryan Reckley as one of the elite sought after targets for Major League Baseball franchises for the upcoming international signing period.
Chris ‘Fireman’ Brown named Coach of the Year
CHRIS ‘Fireman’ Brown may still be negotiating the final chapter of his storybook career as a quarter-miler, but he’s off to a great start in his introduction as a head coach at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia.
Deyton Albury settling in with Chipola Indians in Florida
AFTER taking a year off to compete for Believe Prep Academy in Rock Hill, South Carolina, guard Deyton Albury is now settling into his new environment in Marianna, Florida.
Versatile pitcher/infielder Burton ‘Juice’ Saunders dies
VERSATILE pitcher/infielder Burton ‘Juice’ Saunders, who was an avid member of the Saxons Superstars junkanoo group, has left a void among his close knitted friends after he passed away on Wednesday morning in Hollywood, Florida.
EDITORIAL: The unknown cost from excess deaths
WHAT is the real price of COVID-19?
STATESIDE: The changing faces of today’s America
THE government has announced that preparations are well underway for the next Bahamian national census. An estimated 119,000 households are due to be surveyed over the first three months of 2022. Ho-hum?
FRONT PORCH: Moultrie’s grand farce and the carnival of egotism
Parliament Square has been the site of extraordinary events in the nation’s political history. On April 27, 1965, in protest against the gerrymandered results of the Boundaries Report and the UBP’s intransigence on the Report, Leader of the Opposition Lynden Pindling famously threw out the Speaker’s Mace from an eastern window of the House of Assembly to an expectant crowd in the Square.
From Connery with love
A RECENT $100,000 donation by the family of the late Sir Sean Connery is following his wishes and keeping the James Bond star and longtime Bahamas resident’s passion for the performing arts alive.
Bannister hails housing community as a sign of growing confidence
WORKS Minister Desmond Bannister yesterday hailed the development of an upscale housing community in western New Providence as a sign of the growing investor-confidence in the Bahamian economy.
Curfew changes to help Abaco vaccine demand
DUE to the high demand for the COVID-19 vaccine on Abaco, special provisions have been made to the daily 8pm to 5am curfew to help ensure that all residents who wish to receive the vaccine will have the opportunity, the Office of the Prime Minister said.
