BPL staff must know ‘the customer is king’
All Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) staff “must know the customer is king”, a union leader has charged, arguing: “We’ve got to make this utility a lean, mean, fighting machine.”
Scalding oil thrown at woman in family row
A MAN threw hot liquid on a woman and caused burns to her body, police say.
Vasyli begs to avoid murder retrial
THE country’s highest court is currently mulling over whether to overturn a lower court’s decision to order that Donna Vasyli be retried of the stabbing death of her millionaire podiatrist husband five years ago.
Wrap up warm - it’s going to get cold
Wrap up warm folks because we’re going to get a wintry blast across The Bahamas later this week. With a cold front coming in from the north west overnight temperatures are going to go down quicker than an ice cold Kalik.
Secret trade in abortion tablets: Chemists selling drug without demanding doctors’ presciptions
THE illegal sale of a drug obtained without a prescription but used to cause abortions has been uncovered by The Tribune.
WORLD VIEW: Why CARICOM had no national for OAS top job
READERS of Barbados newspapers were exposed recently to the views of John Beale, one of the country’s former Ambassadors to the Organisation of American States (OAS), on the forthcoming election for the post of Secretary-General. Because Mr Beale served at the OAS and did sterling work, his views on the Secretary-Generalship of the OAS deserve attention.
Another 114 Haitians are expelled from country
THE Department of Immigration expelled more than 100 Haitians on Saturday. According to a press release, the group of 114 Haitians left New Providence on a Bahamasair flight at 7.30am to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, escorted by a team of law enforcement o
Home repairs poised to start
THE Disaster Reconstruction Authority is scheduled to begin its home repair programme for Hurricane Dorian victims in Grand Bahama and Abaco early next month. The programme, set to begin the first week of February, will involve vouchers being disper
Time to ground the dinosaurs of Bahamasair
Seldom have we seen politicians over-react to a tempest in a tea-cup like we have seen over Bahamasair and whether or not three of their aircraft can enter US airspace.
An idealistic pipe dream
Re: Former MP: Bahamas Needs To Heal Racial Divide. The Tribune, January 10, 2020.
SBC's work on mending racial fences commendable
With a membership of approximately 15 million -- 85 percent being Caucasian -- the largest Protestant denomination in the US, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), has a checkered past in race relations, which had spanned well over a century since its formation in the mid-nineteenth century.
Boothe makes history with Marathon Bahamas victory
A testament to his consistency and longevity in the sport, Delroy Boothe returned as the overall winner of Marathon Bahamas in 2020, a decade after his first win at the event.
Radshad has record setting night, reaches 1,000 career points
IT was a record-setting night of career milestones for Radshad Davis in his final season with the Texas-Arlington Mavericks men’s basketball programme.Davis posted his second double double of the year with a season-high 19 points, a career high 14 re
Athletes burn up the track and field overseas
SPRINTER Samson Colebrook, jumper Laquan Nairn and quarter-milers Doneisha Anderson and Cameron Parker were among the list of Bahamians who performed exceptionally well in their various collegiate track and field meets around the United States over t
Rattlers stop Mystic Marlins, stay undefeated
IN a matchup of unbeaten teams, the CI Gibson Rattlers staked an early claim as the GSSSA senior boys team to beat in a possible championship preview.The Rattlers used a three-point barrage in the fourth quarter to pull away and hand the Mystic Marli
NPBA: High Flyers and rockets in win column
THE New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season action over the weekend with a series of games played at the AF Adderley Gymnasium. Here’s a summary of the games played: Flyers 84, Shockers 69 Dale Davis pumped in a double-do
Union's election action given court go-ahead
The Water and Sewerage Corporation’s management union (WSMU) has been given permission to proceed with its Judicial Review action over alleged government interference in its elections. Supreme Court Justice, Indra Charles, last week allowed the unio
Bahamas in 'good shape' on petroleum price fears
A top petroleum executive says The Bahamas in “pretty good shape” on short-term fuel costs as the global oil market has not “reacted as strongly” to the US and Iranian stand-off as initially feared. Keith Glinton, regional manager for Sol Petroleum B
Government bidding reform 'revolutionary'
More than 400 businesses were represented at the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) first-ever Bahamian procurement fair in a bid to increase their share of its $292m in locally-funded projects. Marlon Johnson, the Ministry of Finance’s acting
Realtor's top agents list $56m in property
Damianos Sotheby’s International Realty has unveiled its top listing agents for 2019, with the best performing duo handling $56m worth of property. That was Mark Hussey and Bianca Aranha, who were the realtor’s overall top listing agents. Mitzi Pear
