Team Bahamas honoured for Pan Am Games performance
The Bahamas Olympic Committee honoured the athletes and staff of Team Bahamas for their recent performance at the XVIII Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. For the first time, the BOC doled out monetary gifts for medallists and finalists while coaches
It's official: Sammy Hunter joins Ole Miss Rebels
A LATE arrival in Oxford, Mississippi, Sammy Hunter officially joined the Ole Miss Rebels and is quickly becoming acclimated to the Rebels’ basketball programme.Hunter, the incoming freshman forward, fulfilled his academic requirements over the summe
Deveaux plays with Knowles and Owlz
TRENT Deveaux advanced within the Los Angeles Angels organisation and joined D’Shawn Knowles with the Orem Owlz in the Pioneer League. The duo appeared as teammates last night in the Owlz 10-8 loss to Tod Isaacs Jr and the Grand Junction Rockies. K
Customs gamechanger in switch to Click2Clear
CUSTOMS officials said yesterday they had reached a “major milestone” having integrated New Providence seaport to the Click2Clear Portal which will become its primary processing system on September 1.Superintendent Tyrone Sands, underscoring the impo
ART OF GRAPHIX: How advertising can help your business
Businesses use advertising to accomplish varied goals. Besides advertising products in traditional venues such as newspapers and general interest magazines, businesses advertise in media that reach specific markets. It can be anything from your shop
Tapping into youth innovation
Bahamas First General Insurance Company joined with STEMboard to present Hack IT 2019 – a five-day summer camp providing hands-on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics instruction to private and public school students in grades 9-12 at no
EDITORIAL: In the worst moment, you are not alone
ONE of the worst parts of depression is the feeling of isolation – that no one is there to help you, that no one feels the way you are feeling.
ALICIA WALLACE: Black and white lives - the conversation is long overdue
Race is a difficult subject to broach in almost any space or circumstance, and particularly challenging when participants are in denial about the ways it impacts our lives.
'We're eating ourselves into an early grave'
BAHAMIANS are eating themselves into an early grave, Health Minister Dr Duane Sands said yesterday, noting that more than 70 percent of the population is overweight. He gave the sober news as he presented the results of the 2019 STEPS Survey. The re
More than one in ten has had sex act against will
MORE than one in ten Bahamians have been the victim of a non-consensual sex act, according to the Ministry of Health’s recent STEPS survey. Health Minister Duane Sands yesterday described this as a “disturbing number”. The survey found 13.1 percent
Unified bus system pilot plan to cost $600,000
THE government’s unified bus system study will cost about $600,000, Transport Minister Renward Wells said yesterday.He said the government expects to reap about $300,000 from the programme while Cabinet has already approved that amount for it.The stu
People have to accept public services means paying taxes
BAHAMIANS must be educated on the fact they cannot demand modern infrastructure and services without paying taxes, according to a local businessman, stating: “We cannot have our cake and eat it too.”Dr Keenan Larry Carroll, owner of the Sandpiper Inn
Suicidal thoughts - 17,000 have them
MORE than 17,000 Bahamians “seriously considered” attempting suicide in the last year, according to the Ministry of Health’s recently conducted STEP survey.
Get back to work: Govt wins court order forcing halt to strike action
BAHAMAS Doctors Union has been blocked from taking further industrial action against the government and ordered to return to work after an injunction was granted yesterday by Supreme Court Justice Ian Winder.
UK’s envoy: So much to work on together
ACCESS to British visa and consular services will remain unchanged despite the return of a resident High Commissioner to the capital.
BPL could miss target for engines back on line
BAHAMAS Power & Light has encountered difficulties bringing its engines online and has been forced to reassess the time it will take to repair the units, the company said yesterday.
Dorian’s path may miss us
IT IS still too early to tell whether Tropical Storm Dorian will strengthen into a hurricane in time to affect the country.
Man with gun 'planned to hand it in to police'
A MAN has been given a conditional discharge for being caught with a loaded firearm because he planned to “do the right thing” and turn it in to police, but was afraid to do so. On Monday, Senior Magistrate Derence Rolle-Davis ordered Vaughn Johnson
94 Haitians told not to come back illegally
NEARLY 100 Haitians were granted a conditional discharge yesterday after admitting to entering the country illegally earlier this week. The 94 Haitian migrants — 79 men and 15 women — have been ordered not to return to The Bahamas in the manner they
