EDITORIAL: Take police brutality seriously
We’ve been here before.
Munnings signs with new team
AFTER his deal with his original club failed to come to fruition, Travis Munnings has another opportunity to begin his pro basketball career in France.
Meditation: Follow the right star
“After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east came to Jerusalem and asked, ‘Where is the one who has been born king of the Jews? We saw his star when it rose and have come to worship him.’
A return to old values for 2020
The clock has run out on 2019. Thank God, because 2019 has been by far the worst year in Bahamian history, and I believe almost every Bahamian would attest to that sentiment. With all that has happened with Hurricane Dorian – the loss of so many lives, businesses, homes, and the tedious work to get back to some normalcy – I do believe that we all need to seek God first, and to repent as a nation.
The $17m drones
Not that the $17m wroth of 55 drones might assist the police the public needs some re-assurances as to how these drones will operate and an assurance that our privacy will not unless they, the police have a Magistrate’s Order, be abused.
It's just the facts
I am often offended by what passes for commentary and criticism by the official opposition and their supporters but believe that no response is likely better for my health. As we begin a New Year, I am hazarding a change.
Don't Blink: Star-filled home run derby set for tomorrow
THE third annual Don’t Blink/Charles Johnson Foundation Home Run Derby, powered by REV, takes place at noon tomorrow, Saturday January 5, 2020 at the Montagu foreshore, featuring 30 participants in this one-of-a-kind baseball exhibition. The star-fi
Down memory lane: A decade to remember
Lest we forget, it was only a short time ago that we couldn’t wait to usher in the millennium of 2000.Today, we reflect on what has been a turbulent decade of so many ups and downs, thrills and spills, successes and failures, triumphs and defeats and
Sprinter Marissa White on the move
MARISSA White has made the adjustment to competing at the collegiate level and now she’s hoping that she can move on and represent the Bahamas on the international stage as a member of the next female sprinting core. Now in her sophomore year at Tem
Exuma’s Ebenezer church family rings in 2020 in faith
Rev Stephen Smith and the Ebenezer family of Exuma celebrated in prayer, praise, reflection and thanksgiving during their annual Watch Night Service.
Your light still shines
“Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen his star in the East and have come to worship Him!”
Wilson: 'It was a good year to grow'
COACH Ronald Cartwright feels that if Jamal Wilson can improve on his approach to the bar, he can become a legitimate global high jumper. Wilson, the 31-year-old national champion, has been one of the Bahamas’ premier jumpers and is coming off a dis
Ayton has double double, but West-leading Lakers top Suns
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Lakers built a huge early lead against Phoenix only to see it shrink to single digits.
Consumers 'disgruntled' on plastic bag transition
Super Value’s principal yesterday admitted “there are disgruntled customers” over the 25 cent per plastic bag charge, adding that the transition had “not been accepted as I had hoped”. Rupert Roberts, pictured, told Tribune Business: “I would say tha
Long Island vacation rentals hit by Dorian
Long Island has been hit by Hurricane Dorian fall-out, its Chamber of Commerce president revealed yesterday, with vacation rental bookings significantly down on prior years. Cheryl de Goicoechea told Tribune Business that her own Airbnb properties “
Farmers to receive $1.2m Dorian aid during January
A Cabinet minister yesterday said the government will this month release some $1.2m to deal with farmers’ “emergency needs” some four months after Hurricane Dorian’s passage. Michael Pintard, minister of agriculture and marine resources, told Tribun
EDITORIAL: What can true ambition achieve?
Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis is nothing if not ambitious.
STATESIDE: We’ve read this script before - now for Bush read Trump
As Americans awoke on New Year’s Day, their thoughts may have initially been of a reflective nature, contemplating the end of one astonishing decade in their recent history and legitimately wondering what the next ten years might bring to top the tumult and turmoil to which they have unfortunately become accustomed.
96 killed in 2019 as murder count increases by five percent
THE country’s murder count in 2019 was pushed to 96, according to The Tribune’s records, a 5.5 percent increase over 2018’s 91 killings.
