Man in hospital after suspected suicide bid
A 29-year-old Grand Bahama man is in hospital following an suspected attempted suicide incident at Eight Mile Rock on Thursday.
‘Morgue crisis can’t continue’
THE Public Hospitals Authority has renewed its appeal for people to collect stored bodies at Princess Margaret Hospital’s morgue, saying the facility has more than 150 bodies in storage - over its maximum capacity of 66.
Food aid programme to end next month
THE government’s national food distribution programme will end next month, Minister of Social Services Frankie Campbell said yesterday.
Insurance firm suffers cyber attack
A LOCAL insurance company has had to beef up its cyber security system after falling victim to hackers.
Suspect accused of sex with girl, 14
A 20-year-old man was remanded to prison accused of having sex with a minor last week.
Probation for man guilty of vagrancy
A MAN was placed on probation for one month after he pleaded guilty to vagrancy.
Marcus Garvey’s influences
In her book titled Garvey and Garveyism, the late Amy Jacques Garvey claimed that the late Pan-Africanist and Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) founder, Marcus Mosiah Garvey, was deeply influenced by a Bahamian physician, activist and politician named Dr Joseph Robert Love.
Remember our animals
Aside from the damage inflicted by COVID-19 on Bahamians health, both physical, mental and that of our economy, there has been considerable collateral damage to health of other members of our community who have seemingly fallen through the cracks. I am referring to the animals that live with and among us.
Enhance patient safety
Patient safety should be enhanced to protect and promote health.
UPDATED: Police investigate three shootings in New Providence
THREE people are in hospital after separate shooting incidents on Wednesday.
90 new cases of COVID-19, five additional deaths under investigation
The Ministry of Health reported on Thursday that there were 90 new cases of COVID-19 and five additional deaths under investigation.
STATESIDE: Is this the answer to what put Trump in the Oval Office and may keep him there?
We all know someone who’s really smart. Maybe we know these smart people from school or work, or maybe they’re someone from our own family. Sometimes, they are celebrities. We see them on TV or read what they write in the newspaper, online or in a book.
Divide and rule
The strategy of divide and conquer was first develop by Sun Tzu’s, a Chinese General 2500 years ago. In the west, the divide your enemy so you can rule approach is attributed to Julius Cesar — he successfully applied it to conquer Gaul twenty-two centuries ago.
To bury or not to bury
In spite of the many challengers, financially and otherwise facing our government, it should not become unaware or calloused to the need of dignity for the dead, be they having departed this life from COVID or any other catastrophic natural disaster. Thus, I venture to propose the following for the proper care of those dearly departed souls, now accumulating in inordinate numbers at our health care facilities.
The great unwashed
Re: Welcome return for Mr Davis – The Tribune, Letters, September 14, 2020.
EDITORIAL: Was this consultation just for show?
When is a consultation not a consultation?
PAHO: Vaccine not around the corner
THE Pan American Health Organisation has raised alarm about countries in the region returning to “near normal” social and public life, despite the fact a COVID-19 vaccine “is not around the corner”.
No Back to School bonanza for retailers amid pandemic
ONE retailer has estimated back-to-school sales have fallen by 75 percent compared with last year, however several people in the sector are hopeful business will pick up in the coming weeks.
Search ends for missing boaters
THE Royal Bahamas Defence Force has called off the search for boaters who went missing during an incident last weekend.
