Businessman one of three victims killed over weekend
A WEST Bay Street business owner was shot dead just outside his establishment early yesterday morning, marking the 51st murder for the year and the third over the weekend, according to The Tribune’s records.
Top Tips for Landing the First Job After Graduation
COLLEGE graduation is an exciting milestone that marks years of preparation, hard-work and sacrifice for both students and their families. However, the celebration of success is often short-lived for graduates as they anxiously turn their thoughts to what the next steps should be.
INSIGHT: Crumbling before our eyes
WHEN I wrote a column last week that started with the words - shame on me - I was fighting back tears. I am a Bahamian citizen and as guilty as every one of us who stands by and lets history crumble before our eyes. Earlier that day, I had stood in front of a building that once housed Pan American Airlines headquarters and realised, just as I had the Sunday before when a young friend and I pushed away the bush to get inside Blackbeard’s Tower, that we are letting our incredible history vanish piece by piece, decaying block by block, day by day.
INSIGHT: Stop taxing the poorest
ALREADY drowning in a sea of hefty utility bills, high living costs, and archaic business-stifling restrictions, low to middle income Bahamians have just been smacked in the face with a sledgehammer in the form of a regressive, unexpected and misguided tax hike. It is far worse for Grand Bahamians where the economy remains mired in a quagmire of depression.
Cuba Cup blow for Bahamas
COACH Wayde Watson said his team dug themselves a hole at the start of their first game against Cuba yesterday in the Caribbean Basketball Confederation’s FIBA Women’s Caribbean Cup - and the team wasn’t able to get back into the contest on the first day of competition in Paramaribo, Suriname.
126ft freighter goes up in flames in port
BIMINI police are investigating a fire that occurred onboard the vessel Sherice M while it was docked in Alice Town.According to police, shortly after noon on Saturday officers received a report of a 126ft freight vessel that was ablaze while moored
Dominican poachers held by RBDF
HER Majesty’s Bahamian Ship Durward Knowles arrested a Dominican fishing vessel for poaching in Bahamian waters on Saturday morning.While on routine patrol in the southern Bahamas, HMBS Durward Knowles, under the command of Lieutenant Commander Omarv
Two jailed for firearm offences
TWO men who pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court in Grand Bahama to possession of an illegal firearm and ammunition in separate matters will serve three and five years in prison.Eric Culmer, 19, of Bass Lane, Freeport, appeared in Freeport Magist
Women robbed in carjackings
TWO women were robbed during separate carjacking incidents in New Providence.The latest incident occurred yesterday morning. Police said shortly after 2am on Sunday, a woman was driving her Nissan X-Trail on Geranium Avenue in Garden Hills #1 when a
EDITORIAL: Unity is needed to build a country
IT IS said that a revolution can be built in a day, but it takes a generation to build a government.
Inhumanity of separating children
I am a Bahamian who swore that because I am not American I would have nothing to say – pro or con – about US president Donald Trump.
Barbados govt theft?
An article, Banks Facing Billion Dollar Hit, in Barbados was making the rounds on Social Media this past weekend and it is an example of theft by government. No more, no less.
Unbelievable
I had decided to stop writing letters but after watching the local news tonight I am so disgusted that something has to be said.
Burrows with history makers
Jaraun “Kino” Burrows and his Fos-Sue-Mur Provence Basketball Byers closed their season with a history-making milestone.
Knowles goes pro
Just weeks after his collegiate career concluded, Perez Knowles officially makes the transition to the professional ranks.
Hitting the mark
WITH the focus on the IAAF World Junior Championships in Pampere, Finland, next month, sprinters Adrian Curry, Jaida Knowles and Joel Johnson led the performances as they attained the qualifying standards over the weekend at the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations’ Junior National Championships at the original Thomas A Robinson National Stadium.
Ready for a CARIFTA throw down
The Bahamas will be the host of the second edition of CARIFTA Judo on Friday, June 22, from 7-9pm at the Courtyard Marriott Ballroom.
A new sponsor - but the same tradition of top performances
This year brought a new title sponsor and the country elite junior swimmers continued their tradition of standout performances on the opening day of the Bahamas Aquatics Federation (BAF) National Swimming Championships.
'National interest' demands web shop expansion slows
The Bahamas’ “national interest” demanded that the government “slow down the rate of growth” in web shop gaming through increased taxation, a Cabinet Minister is arguing.Dionisio D’Aguilar, minister of tourism and aviation, told Tribune Business that
Government IT lead in control woes, 25% understaffed
The government unit charged with implementing its $30m digital transformation is 25 percent under-staffed and plagued by “numerous internal control deficiencies”.The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in a withering April 20, 2018, report on the
