Police in Andros destroy 90,000 marijuana plants
POLICE destroyed more than 90,000 marijuana plants found in eight fields in Andros in two separate incidents last week.
Nassau told: ‘Don’t fear’ Freeport’s cruise ports
Nassau has “nothing to be afraid of” from Freeport’s two mega cruise ports, the Minister of Tourism is arguing, while admitting both projects have added “fresh” urgency to the capital’s revival.
UPDATED: Four people murdered in 48 hours
Four men were killed in separate incidents over the weekend with two of the killings taking place roughly an hour apart and just streets apart.
WSC executive chairman: Woods ‘hasn’t done a day’s work for us in years’
BAHAMAS Utilities Services and Allied Workers Union president Dwayne Woods “has not performed a day’s work” for the Water and Sewerage Corporation in years, according to its executive chairman, who said the man stills gets paid approximately $60,000 a year despite being on “administrative leave”.
TOGETHER IN GRIEF: Mass turnout for funeral of Abaco tragedy victims
THEIR coffins draped in the Haitian flag and a bouquet of flowers, 22 Haitian migrants who were killed when their sloop shipwrecked in Abaco more than a week ago were mourned yesterday by hundreds who did not know them but who came to show empathy for the plight that brought them to their demise.
This time we should boycott Buju Banton
Buju Banton was three years old when the late Bob Marley lived in Nassau and spent hours on end, enthralled with chasing a soccer ball around Fort Charlotte in blissful solitude. He was recuperating from being shot at his home in Jamaica.
WORLD VIEW: A ‘Venezuelan owned’ solution: too much to hope?
COMMENTATORS in Western media - who dominate international news distribution - characterise any government, entity or person who speaks out against meddling in the internal affairs of Venezuela as “supporters of the Maduro regime”.
EDITORIAL: We need a Marshall Plan for Haiti
They came in their hundreds to mourn the dead.
‘Myth debunked’: Web shops no illicit finance risk
The Gaming Board says its one-month study has “debunked the myth” that web shops are vulnerable to financial crime and pose a significant risk to The Bahamas’ integrity.
Competing for a good cause at the Potcakeman Triathlon
Dozens of participants swam, biked and ran in the name of a good cause at the 2019 Powerade Potcakeman Triathlon yesterday at Clifton Heritage Park.
How we maintain our public spaces tells a lot about how we think
Arising from the National address - Cleanliness and totally unattractiveness of Bay Street…have to suggest the full House of Assembly, have to be blind as to the state of disrepair and ugliness. They pass through that area at least once a week. Certain Ministers daily, going to work and they do not see?
If we don’t act soon, none of us will be able to go out and eat conch
Not that Richard Lightbourn, nor the topic of conch depletion in The Bahamas, needs any endorsement at all, but I would simply like to add my own voice to the discussion.
‘Job done’ on Williams pro debut
RASHIELD Williams wasted no time in pulling off his professional debut on Saturday night in Mexico City.
Tip off today in playoffs
The Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools Sports Association will tip off sudden death basketball playoffs today featuring play in all four contested divisions at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.
Career high for Cornish as Seawolves snap up win
A career night from Jaron Cornish powered the Stony Brook Seawolves to its eighth win in conference play, highlighting the weekend for Bahamian student-athletes in NCAA Division I basketball.
Hield triumphs as Ayton’s Suns falter
The third regular-season match-up between Buddy Hield’s Sacramento Kings and Deandre Ayton’s Phoenix Suns went to the Kings’ advantage as the teams continue to trend in opposite directions.
NHI in ‘severe’ solvency threat to local insurers
Private health insurers yesterday warned that National Health Insurance’s (NHI) current structure threatens to “severely” undermine their solvency, with the mid-July 2020 launch date likely “unachievable”.
Bahamas hopes Kravitz ad rocks tourism growth
The Minister of Tourism is hoping The Bahamas’ new Lenny Kravitz-inspired advertising campaign will help drive stopover visitor growth “in the teens or low double digit” percentages for 2019.
Bahamian architects in first overseas work
A firm of Bahamian architects has just finished work on its first overseas project - the headquarters building of Bahamas First’s Cayman affiliate.
Aliv teams with DHL for courier expansion
Aliv has partnered with DHL Express to enable customers to use its stores to ship items via the courier company.
