Mystic Marlins’ senior boys earn 54-50 win over Timberwolves, tie series
A FOUL-plagued Malachi McCoy played sparingly in game one, but the Mystic Marlins’ team captain had a dominant performance in the paint Wednesday night and powered his team to a game two win.
‘No one knows when their hour will come’
New play focuses on getting right with Jesus
To make audiences reevaluate their relationship with God once they leave the four walls of the church is the aim of Samita Ferguson’s first theatre production of the year.
Living a life of love
As we approach Valentine’s Day, we are called to reassess our position on the topic of love. What does it mean to live a life of love?
The Bible and capital punishment
One of the most conspicuous commands within the sphere of God’s word is the direct instruction for capital punishment for murderers.
Alike but not the same
Crystal ball vs wrecking ball
Lamentations 3:40: “Let us examine our ways...”
No ‘great panic’ on deficit run-up
The government’s first-half fiscal deficit is no cause for “great panic” despite being equal to 73.4 percent of the full-year target, a top accountant argued yesterday.
BISX closes on govt debt ‘watershed’
The Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX) is “in the final stages” of preparing to list and trade billions in government debt - a move its top executive yesterday hailed as “a watershed”.
Insurers: ‘Very difficult’ to hit NHI start date
Bahamian insurers yesterday warned it will be “very difficult” to hit the revised National Health Insurance (NHI) start date of July 2020 with the scheme’s organisers “standing their ground”.
NHI chief pledges lower business, individual cost
THE National Health Insurance Authority’s (NHIA) top executive yesterday pledged that its revised proposal will reduce the cost burden for Bahamian businesses and individuals.
NHI ‘can expand without cost rise’
THE National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) yesterday said it believes it can “still manage” to expand the scheme’s medical services without any increase in premium costs.
Missing Yolande found safe
YOLANDE Mercidieu, the 12-year-old girl who was missing for seven weeks, was found Thursday in good health and is currently in the care of the Department of Social Services, The Tribune was told.
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BOWLING RESULTS
THE top scorer in the Financial Bowling League competition Wednesday night was Sonith Lockhart of the Rubis Oil Stars with a 226 second high game and a 586 high three set. The runner-up was Chavez Thompson
Fox invited to spring training with Rays
LUCIUS Fox is set to begin his 2019 season at an elevated status and continues his progression through the Tampa Bay Rays organisation.
Nygard appealing against order for ‘immediate arrest’
LYFORD Cay resident Peter Nygard is appealing a judge’s decision to order his “immediate arrest” for failing to appear on three occasions to be sentenced for breaching a court order prohibiting him from engaging in any illegal dredging near his home.
Eight women face jail after strip club swoop
EIGHT women, five of whom are Colombian, were committed to prison yesterday after failing to pay their collective $24,000 in fines for admitting to working as strippers in local nightclubs without a permit to do so.
House agrees to borrow $100m for emergencies
THE House of Assembly approved a resolution yesterday to borrow $100m from the Inter-American Development Bank as a contingency against natural disaster emergencies.
Junkanoo challenge gives win to Knights
AFTER appeals were lodged against Grand Bahama’s New Year’s Day Junkanoo results, the Platinum Knights group has now been declared the official winner.
‘Contractor over-billed by $1.8m’
A COMPANY contracted to do work in a Carmichael Road subdivision had its bill heavily reduced after Ministry of Public Works officials were unable to prove it had completed work it claimed to have done.
Govt uses up 73% of full-year deficit
The government was last night said to be confident there will be “no deviation” from its $237m full-year deficit target despite incurring almost three-quarters of this sum in the first six months.
