Ashley Sturrup honoured to represent Bahamas at CAC Bodybuilding Championships
ALTHOUGH she considers bodybuilding a hobby, attorney Ashley Sturrup said she’s honoured to be able to make the team to represent the Bahamas at the Central American and Caribbean Bodybuilding Championships.
EDITORIAL: The debate over mandatory vaccination
Should vaccination be mandatory?
WORLD VIEW: In praise of a black Caribbean woman
CARICOM should be proud of the success of a Caribbean woman who was at the centre of the effort to manage the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America and the Caribbean.
INSIGHT: Public mistrust of the Health Ministry’s leadership continues to prove a fatal mistake
IT CAN be easy for people to believe the times are not perilous. Perhaps it’s the freedom to travel to places that are either faring better in terms of vaccinations, or whose people are apt to take more risk. It may also be the fatigue of living under such strict confinement for 16 months wears you down to the point of carelessness.
INSIGHT: ‘Look at me! Can’t you see the Grim Reaper beside me?’
A gang “general” has given The Tribune an insight into the background behind the recent spate of killings which have left the blood of young men running in our streets.
BPL Abaco restoration ‘advanced’
BAHAMAS Power and Light Company is at the advanced stage of their restoration efforts in Abaco post Hurricane Dorian, according to chief operating officer Ian Pratt.
Hospital in expansion talks amid criticism for conditions
THE Public Hospitals Authority yesterday announced it is “in talks” with international partners to expand the Princess Margaret Hospital’s Special Pathogen Unit amid criticism over the alleged housing conditions of COVID-19 patients at the medical facility.
Davis says govt lacks plan to protect country
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leader Philip “Brave” Davis has accused the Minnis administration of failing to provide leadership or a plan to protect the country as newer strains of COVID-19 affect public health.
Church: We don’t endorse FNM use of property for politics
THE Archdiocese of Nassau has distanced itself from a photograph of Free National Movement supporters at its Cat Island property, saying it does not authorise the use of its property for partisan purposes.
Super Value chief calls for ‘brutal’ COVID enforcement
Super Value’s president yesterday urged the authorities to “brutally enforce” COVID-19 health protocols as he revealed the supermarket chain has “had more cases in the last month than ever before”.
Ex-MP wins 2% of claim over his ‘most humiliating episode’
An ex-PLP MP has won just two percent of his $84,420 legal claim against the government for what he described as “the most humiliating episode of my professional career”.
Aviation faces ‘curve ball’ from COVID restrictions
The Bahamian aviation industry was yesterday said to have been thrown “a curve ball” by the government’s tightening of COVID restrictions having regained just 40-50 percent of pre-pandemic business.
Taylor Industries owners give ex-staff $150k boost
The Supreme Court has approved a transaction that will see Taylor Industries’ former owners make a $150,000 payment that could significantly boost recoveries for former staff of the insolvent retailer.
The importance of the Olympic Games
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THE Summer Olympics finally got on the way last Friday, in Tokyo after a year’s delay caused by the pandemic.
Was Sammy shot by mistake?
THE former girlfriend of a man who was shot and killed in the Carmichael area on Friday night believes he was a victim of mistaken identity.
More BPL blackout misery
BAHAMAS Power and Light Company has blamed an issue at its Blue Hills station for an electricity outage that hit numerous communities yesterday.
National address to detail new measures
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis is expected to address the country at 8pm Wednesday regarding his administration’s continued fight against COVID-19.
NURSES - DON’T TRY TO FORCE JAB ON US: As hospitals buckle under surge of cases, mandatory vaccines meet opposition
CHIEF Medical Officer Dr Pearl McMillan’s assertion that mandatory vaccines for healthcare workers is under consideration was yesterday criticised even though vaccine hesitancy particularly among medical workers continues to be a challenge.
Minnis has failed - but he’s not alone
Let me state from the outset that I don’t tote water for the Free National Movement (FNM) or Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis. Minnis is obviously the whipping boy of the media and opposition forces, over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic since March 2020.
