Mitchell: Cut the attacks - and not the economy
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Fred Mitchell criticised Finance Minister Peter Turnquest yesterday for what he called “ad hominem attacks” against PLP Deputy Leader Chester Cooper.
PHA: We regret decision to take industrial action
THE Public Hospitals Authority said it “regretted” the Consultant Physicians Staff Association’s decision to take industrial action yesterday. It added that a meeting has been proposed for some time between November 30 and December 7 on issues of contention.
Now nurses consider own strike poll
AS doctors engage in industrial action, nurses are preparing to take a new strike poll of their own signaling more bad news for the public health sector.
Six years on - where’s my money?
Bahamian justice has been denied a fully-modernised Supreme Court registry because of a six-year legal dispute over an alleged multi-million dollar breach of contract.
SHOWDOWN: Consultants say – emergencies only; Nurses to vote on strike Dec 4
NEARLY 600 senior and junior doctors, fuelled by frustration, withdrew services yesterday warning that only “life and death” cases will be accommodated until there is resolution over outstanding physician reimbursements and improvements to base salaries.
Post office operating ‘by year end’
PRESS Secretary Anthony Newbold said yesterday the General Post Office’s department and staff relocation to the Town Centre Mall will be complete, if not by Christmas, by the end of the year.
Vulnerable sectors: WTO’s ‘initial shock’ may cause wipe-out
An ex-Cabinet minister yesterday called for more focus, and specific policy actions, for vulnerable industries that may not be able to withstand the “initial shock” of World Trade Organisation (WTO) membership.
Column: Tiger’s Tour Championship victory changes the conversation
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — The first stop is Sam Snead and his 82 career PGA Tour victories.
Well comin’ home, winless
THE Bahamas Baseball Association, in its return to international play without any of its top players, will come home on Thursday from the Pan American Baseball Confederation championships in Panama winless.
We are living in the world of designer babies
Yesterday it was announced that twin girls were born in China. They are the first babies in the world to be genetically altered, in order to make them immune to HIV.
PLP is at a crossroads
While Sir Lynden was the foremost leader in Bahamian history, the Progressive Liberal Party is not the party of Sir Lynden, nor is it the party of any one man. Instead, it is a party emboldened by an idea of a grand experiment promoting the social and economic well-being of all Bahamians. Beneath the rubbles of our defeat is an ascending philosophy inscribed of ordinary duties inherited by the common interest we share with our founders.
Higgs diagnosed with torn ACL in left knee
It was one of those scary moments that no player would like to go through. But when Texas Longhorns’ senior guard Lashann Higgs went down with her injury, she knew it was bad.
11 months and counting in wait for survey paperwork
AN American woman seeking to build a winter home in Eleuthera has been waiting 11 months for the surveyor general to certify and record her survey plan, a delay even people in the Department of Lands and Surveys privately say is outrageous.
Anfernee Seymour going back to his roots at Freedom Farm
USING the opportunity to never give up on your dreams, Anfernee Seymour is going back to his roots this weekend to share his experience as a professional baseball player at Freedom Farm.
Two jailed for series of housebreaking offences
TWO men accused of multiple charges of stealing, housebreaking, attempted housebreaking and receiving, were yesterday sentenced to more than two years each on two-thirds of the counts.
Shot man ‘stable’ in hospital
A MAN is in hospital after he was shot on Monday night, police said.
Over-the-Hill scheme to be explained at meeting
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis will host a town meeting this evening when elements of his administration’s Economic Empowerment Zone Act will be explained, press secretary Anthony Newbold said yesterday.
Couple deny trying to take $13,907 out of the country
A BAHAMIAN couple yesterday pleaded not guilty after they were charged in connection with a large sum of money allegedly discovered in their possession at the Lynden Pindling International Airport earlier this week.
I heard gun shots outside, witness tells murder trial
A WITNESS in a Grand Bahama murder trial told the Supreme Court yesterday that he saw a man running past his house shortly after hearing gunshots in the area of Hearn Lane in March 2016 when three persons had been shot inside a wooden shack.
EDITORIAL: Time for Mr Culmer to start listening
IT is a rare thing in politics to be able to please all of the country – but if ever there was a statement seemingly designed to annoy everyone it was the one made by FNM chairman Carl Culmer.
