11% booking gap 'rapidly closing'
The Bahamas is “rapidly closing” the 11 percent winter booking gap, a senior tourism executive says, with the country’s main promotion board enjoying a 24 percent rise in website “conversions”. Fred Lounsberry, president of the Nassau/Paradise Islan
I-Elite Sports Academy looks to level playing field
DATA analytics continues to revolutionise the game of baseball and one local organisation seeks to use technology to equalise the playing field for its players in their recruitment process.
Donte’s junior career ends with a bang in semi-final
IT wasn’t the final that Donte Armbrister anticipated, but he will put a cap on his junior career with a semi-final appearance in the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s hosting of the International Tennis Federation’s Goombay Splash International Tournament.
Nesbitt has eight steals in Rebels’ blowout win
VALARIE Nesbitt had the breakout game head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin envisioned when she recruited the junior point guard to the Ole Miss Rebels.
NYGARD ACCUSED OF SEX ATTACKS: Police probing SIX formal complaints by alleged victims
BAHAMAS police are investigating six allegations of rape made against Canadian fashion tycoon Peter Nygard.
Archer back with a new vile rant
A MAN says his family is distraught after Omar Archer, the registrar of contractors in The Bahamas, “falsely claimed” in a viral video that a relative of his committed indecent and illegal acts involving a minor.
Brave - we’re heading over a fiscal cliff
OPPOSITION Leader Philip “Brave” Davis said the country is headed toward a financial crisis and that he is certain it will face a credit downgrade.
PM: Time to wipe the slate clean
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis supports expunging criminal records of people convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana, he said yesterday.
Marine charged with murder given bail
THE Royal Bahamas Defence Force marine charged with murdering his superior at Government House was granted bail on Thursday.
Man stabbed in nightclub
POLICE are investigating the circumstances surrounding a stabbing incident that left one New Providence man in hospital early yesterday morning.
WORLD VIEW: Blatant, patent and flagrant - the double standards in the OAS
DOUBLE standards have become the new system in the Organization of American States (OAS). This unwholesome development does not portend well for the future of the Organization which is increasingly becoming a rubber stamp for the will of a few governments. It also creates a huge cloud over the bilateral relations of nations within the hemisphere.
PM congratulates son as he opens clinic
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis officially opened the Oxford Women’s Health Centre during a ceremony on Friday.
A tax system we can't afford
Your Editorial comment of Thursday, the 21st November, was informative in that it laid out the serious fiscal situation facing Bahamian governments as we continue to grapple with increasingly devastating Atlantic hurricanes.
Do something new
I was born in a time when elitist education was the order of the day (1970s). Currently, both globally and locally there is a move to increase access to education. There will definitely be a compromise on quality happening in most western educational institutions.
Food for thought
Roadside vendors do they have Health certificates? An ever increasing group of people just trying to make a dollar, but they are selling food - coconut juice, etc…are they not required to get a Food handlers certificate and display it?
Gardiner, Miller-Uibo athletes of the year
HE didn’t make the top five for the International Amateur Athletic Federation’s Male Athlete of the Year, but Steven Gardiner’s victory in the men’s 400 metres at the IAAF World Championships earned him the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture’s Athlete of the Year honours.
‘Sandman’ 10-0 after first-round stoppage
New opponent, same result as Bahamian heavyweight Amron “Sandman” Sands continues his undefeated streak.
Don't use Mortgage Corp to fund Dorian rebuilding
A former Bahamas Mortgage Corporation chairman has warned against it attempting to finance Hurricane Dorian housing and infrastructure renovations by issuing new bonds.Alex Storr told Tribune Business that the state-owned homes financier already has
Airport moves to counter Thanksgiving congestion
Private pilots and charters are being asked not to fly between 11am to 3pm over the Thanksgiving holiday in a bid to reduce traffic congestion at one-runway Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA). The Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD),
Bahamian law firm in Caribbean's 'top tier'
A Bahamian law firm has entered The Legal 500 Caribbean (2020) rankings as a “Top Tier” operation. Lennox Paton said its number of “recommended lawyers” in the guide has doubled this year from six to 12. It added that it was the only firm in The Bah
