Ex-PM: ‘March election’ if PLP wins
FORMER Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham has predicted that the Progressive Liberal Party will call an early general election if it wins today’s Golden Isles by-election, using Friday’s Free National Movement rally to raise the stakes around a vote both major parties are treating as a key political test.
WORLD VIEW: Hunger and war - the oldest crimes the world still permits
THE GOVERNMENTS of the world’s powerful nations have learned to live with disregard for human suffering.
Three Abaco suspects charged over looting of stranded container barge
THREE Abaco men were granted bail on Friday after denying any involvement in the looting of a container barge that ran aground off the island earlier this month.
GAIN AN EDGE: BTVI president praises Atlantis' customised leadership training
AT A TIME when the world is faster paced, hyper-connected and constantly changing, Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute (BTVI) President, Dr. Linda A. Davis, lauded Atlantis Paradise Island Resort for its “Bold investment” in its people through the customised training of potential leaders.
INSIGHT: Was COP30 just more talk, no real action?
FOR all the talk of climate change as a global threat, the UN Climate Conference that wrapped up over the weekend in Brazil showed little sign that the world is ready to respond.
Arnold’s Department Store demolished as Cooper looks to remedy ‘dead after five-O-clock’ downtown
THE Davis administration demolished the old Arnold's Department Store off Elizabeth Avenue on Friday as part of its ongoing campaign to revitalise the downtown area.
Police probe deadly Abaco crash that killed woman and child
Police are investigating a fatal traffic accident in Treasure Cay, Abaco, that claimed the lives of a woman and a young boy yesterday.
Man killed in hit-and-run on Robinson Road
Police are investigating a fatal hit-and-run after a pedestrian was struck and killed early yesterday morning on Robinson Road.
Police probe separate weekend incidents: robbery, serious injury and suspicious death
Police are investigating three separate incidents reported over the weekend — an armed robbery in Nassau Village, a serious injury from an altercation on Cowpen Road, and a suspicious death on Cat Island.
OPM pushes back after Tribune reports on fired Bahamasair worker
The Office of the Prime Minister yesterday said the Bahamasair incident reported by The Tribune — involving a cash seizure connected to a March 1 flight to Cap-Haïtien — offers no support for Opposition Leader Michael Pintard’s “bag of passports” allegation.
FNM doubles down on call for Golden Isles Returning Officer’s removal
The Free National Movement issued a second letter to Parliamentary Commissioner Harrison Thompson yesterday outlining what it says are multiple conflicts that make Golden Isles Returning Officer Neil Campbell “wholly unsuitable” to oversee the by-election.
Sandals to convert Emerald Bay into Beaches resort in $100m redevelopment deal
The government has signed a heads of agreement for the more than $100m first-phase redevelopment of the former Sandals Emerald Bay into Sandals Beaches Exuma.
Prison officer accused of stealing $1,130 from bank account
A WOMAN prison officer was accused on Friday of stealing more than $1,000 from a man’s Commonwealth Bank account in 2020.
Bail breach sends murder suspect back to prison
A MAN awaiting trial for the 2021 murder of Deandre Thompson was remanded to prison on Friday after he admitted to breaching his Supreme Court bail.
Teen charged with attempted murder, $21k armed robbery
A 17-year-old boy was remanded to prison on Friday after he was accused of attempting to kill a man in Nassau Village in September and stealing $21,000 during an armed robbery at a Mount Pleasant Avenue business last month.
Jury finds mother and daughter guilty of trying to kill tenants
A JURY on Friday found a mother and daughter guilty of the attempted murders of two of their tenants on unnamed road Fox Hill in 2021.
Man and woman accused of stealing over $50k from a land committee were both granted bail
A MAN and woman were granted bail yesterday after being accused of stealing more than $50,000 from the Tarpum Bay Commonage Land Committee over a four-year period.
Teen takes his love of music and Junkanoo to US college
JUNKANOO made its way to Langston University, a historically Black university (HBCU) in Oklahoma, after 19-year-old Bahamian Sharano Hanna composed a melody for the school’s marching band.
‘Many persons have called me daddy’
PRIME Minister Philip Davis brushed aside calls to push for the removal of Golden Isles Returning Officer Neil Campbell yesterday, declaring: “Many persons have called me daddy.”
