Port’s Freeport revival ‘all take and no give’
The Grand Bahama Port Authority-commissioned report on Freeport’s revival is “all take and no give” and is “highly unlikely” to be supported by the government, an attorney blasted yesterday.
Housing Act reforms ‘invite legal challenge’
An ex-deputy prime minister yesterday warned that legal reforms to facilitate Dr Hubert Minnis’ “young professionals” real estate developments are “discriminatory” and “invite legal challenge”.
Family insist Adriana is here
DESPITE a belief from immigration officials that a missing Cuban woman drowned at sea after the boat she was on capsized, a relative of the migrant says the family has reason to believe she is still alive and being held at a local immigration facility.
‘Emergency only’ at overcrowded Humane Society shelter
BAHAMAS Humane Society is pleading with the public not to surrender animals this month unless it is an “emergency situation” as the shelter is overwhelmed with animals and has no more space available.
Cut public sector? Actually we hired 2,400
THE Minnis administration, which came to power promising to right-size the civil service after the Christie administration hired scores of people, has made at least 2,402 people permanent members of the civil service and has promoted more than 1,600 people throughout government since taking office.
‘HOUSING PLAN JUST ISN’T FAIR’: Turnquest’s challenge to PM’s pet project on affordable homes
FORMER Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest has criticised Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis’ housing programme for western New Providence, calling the legislation to facilitate it “inherently discriminatory” and open to a court challenge.
Bodybuilding: World Caribbean Championships at Baha Mar Grand Hyatt
LOCAL bodybuilders will get an opportunity to compete in a major event June 26-27 as Flex Appeal Miami Gym brings the World Caribbean Championships to the Bahamas.
Answer on flying of Pride flag
“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth and all creatures on this earth, including man and woman and God saw that everything that He had created was very good, “ so says the Bible, the book by which many Christians live and on which we all swear when we take a solemn oath to tell the truth.
End child labour
I am deeply traumatised that the Zimbabwean Government is in a struggle to end the persistent scourge of child Labour.
Golden Gala: Charlton beats Seymour in 100m hurdles
In another showdown this season, national record holder Devynne Charlton got the better of former national record holder Pedrya Seymour in the women’s 100 metre hurdles at the Golden Gala in Florence, Italy.
Mantas water polo in National Junior Olympic Qualifier
BAHAMIAN Mantas Water Polo will embark on another historic initiative in their collaboration with a leading club in Houston, Texas.
NBA Draft: Let's go Kai Jones
THE 2021 NBA Draft process will take another step toward pre COVID-19 normalisation as Kai Jones is set to become the third Bahamian within the last five years to make his transition to the league.
NCAA Championships: Rhema Otabor ends up 21st in women’s javelin finals
FLORIDA State’s freshman Rhema Otabor could only muster a 21st place finish in women’s javelin finals, while Houston’s sprinters Brianne Bethel and Camille Rutherford and University of Kentucky’s quarter-miler Megan Moss missed getting to the final of their respective events on day two of the National College Athletic Association (NCAA) Championships in Eugene, Oregon.
EDITORIAL: We shouldn’t hide from our economic problems
WHEN Dr Duane Sands gave his assessment of how many more people need to get vaccinated to benefit the nation – a number very different from that given by his successor as Health Minister – we saluted him for being a plain talker.
STATESIDE: Putin won’t find Biden as easy to handle - but don’t expect it to make any difference
US President Joe Biden, who has been in office for five months, is now busy preparing for his first summit meeting with Vladimir Putin next week. Putin has been President of Russia for 18 of the past 22 years and was only nominally out of the office for those missing four years.
FRONT PORCH: Remembering the legacy of those who really fought for our future
In the last election, the Free National Movement (FNM) presented a slate of many new candidates and got most of them elected, negating the specious argument that new political parties are needed to get new blood in Parliament.
We must work together to fight a political virus
WHEN China reported cases of pneumonia of unknown etiology to the China office of the World Health Organisation on December 31, 2019, little did the world anticipate that a deadly pandemic unseen in a century was in the making.
Smith: Bannister comments on court are ‘scandalous’
ATTORNEY and activist Fred Smith has come out hard against a Cabinet minister’s criticism of a Supreme Court’s ban on demolishing shanty towns in Abaco pending the outcome of a judicial review, saying the remarks were “scandalous”.
COVID rule fines bring in $1m
VIOLATORS of COVID-19 rules have paid the government $1,020,550 in fines, according to National Security Minister Marvin Dames.
