Jones returns home after stint in the WCBA
FREEPORT, Grand Bahama – For basketball superstar Jonquel Jones, the importance of representation of Bahamian women at the elite levels of the sport will continue to pay dividends as a younger generation has more examples of success to look to for inspiration.
Strachan: ‘I wanted to prove to everybody that I was fast enough’
IN the same year that she duplicated her feat as the Austin Sealy winner for the most outstanding performance at the CARIFTA Games, sprinter Anthonique Strachan went on to pull off the 100/200 metre double at the IAAF World Junior Championships to earn the year-ending IAAF Female Rising Star of the Year.
Gateway Academy to face Agape Christian in title game tonight
THE finale in the Family Island Division of the Bahamas National High School Basketball Championships will feature another matchup between league champions out of Bimini and Abaco.
High Flyers rout Stampers 82-57, Rockets top the Mingoes 77-72
THE Breezes High Flyers and the Rockets both took a 2-0 lead in their New Providence Basketball Association best-of-five semi-final playoff series at the AF Adderley Gymnasium Saturday night.
IBCs face ‘much damage’ through blacklisting Bill
THE Bahamas’ ‘blacklisting’ response threatens to “cause a lot of damage” to its IBC business and create “much less certainty” for the financial services industry, a top attorney is warning.
Tax reform key to get Bahamas to ‘mid-shore’
THE Bahamas will only gain “respite” from international regulatory initiatives if it implements a tax regime that moves it to “mid-shore”, a well-known attorney has warned.
Fears Oban controversy will deter other investors
OBAN Energies has moved to reassure its $5.5 billion project is ‘for real’ amid concern that the ongoing controversy could deter other investors from coming to Grand Bahama.
Unions unite to fight ‘catastrophic’ ruling
THE Trades Union Congress (TUC) is seeking permission to appeal a “catastrophic” ruling that takes Bahamian workers “back to pre-1942” to the London-based Privy Council.
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Cashiers charged with stealing more than $400,000
FOUR cashiers at a local automotive services company in New Providence were arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court on Friday charged with collectively stealing more than $400,000 from their employer over a two-year period.
DNA Interim Leader calls for pause, review of Oban deal
DEMOCRATIC National Alliance Interim Leader Chris Mortimer called for a pause, immediate review, and potential cancellation of the Oban Energies Refinery deal in a statement released Friday.
ACP Samuel Butler tells Genesis Academy 'life is a journey'
ASSISTANT Commissioner of Police Samuel Butler told students of the Genesis Academy that life is a journey and they must get back on the right bus that will take them in the right direction to becoming good citizens.
Save The Bays Chairman calls Govt's actions over Oban 'demonic'
THE government’s continued push of Oban Energies’ $5.5 billion refinery project amidst intense opposition is tantamount to treason, according to Save The Bays Chairman Joseph Darville, who on Friday slammed the move as “sacrilegious” and “demonic.”
UB North to host first economic conference on GB
THE University of the Bahamas-North will hold its first economic conference – The Sustainable Grand Bahama Conference – focusing on the economic prospects of the island.
PLP Chairman: Foulkes may have to fight his own party over shanty towns
THE government’s proposed census of shanty town communities could be slowed by persons within the Minnis administration, according to Progressive Liberal Party Chairman Senator Fred Mitchell, who on Friday suggested the promises made by the government before the 2017 election could limit its “political will.”
Chipman asked to resign as Antiquities Monuments and Museums Corporation chairman
Reports have reached The Tribune that Centreville MP Reece Chipman was today asked to resign by Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis as chairman of the Antiquities Monuments and Museums Corporation.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Doubts and questions over Oban Energies deal
THIS week, Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis finally (sort of) addressed his government’s “missteps” with respect to the Oban deal, and our Deputy PM, K Peter Turnquest assured Bahamians the country would be off the European Union’s blacklist by May “at the latest.”
Students stage protest over mortarboards decoration ban
MORE than sixty students, faculty, and alumni gathered on the University of the Bahamas’ campus yesterday to protest the institution’s decision to ban the decoration of mortarboard hats and wearing of student organization stoles at graduation ceremonies.
Questions over shanty town census
THE government’s decision to conduct a census starting with shanty towns in New Providence tomorrow has come as a surprise to Haitian community leaders who stressed the success of these efforts is predicated heavily on their involvement.
