Advocate calls for charges after dog thrown to ground
AN ANIMAL welfare advocate called for a woman to be charged with cruelty after video appeared to show her grabbing a dog from a porch and throwing it to the ground following a confrontation with members of an animal welfare group.
Tavario helps team win their first championship in franchise history
BAHAMIAN basketball standout Tavario Miller was part of history in Mexico, helping the Mineros de Zacatecas capture the Copa Value 2026 for the first championship in the franchise’s history.
EMPIRE SPORTS MEDICINE SERIES: The Science of the Recurrent Injury
It is a sentence I hear far too often in sports medicine. Sometimes it is the hamstring that has now strained for the third time. Sometimes it is an ankle that seems to turn every basketball season, a shoulder that settles down during rest but begins hurting again as soon as throwing increases, or a knee that feels perfectly fine until jumping and running resume.
Rebels one win away from NPABL title
REBELS moved one win away from the New Providence Amateur Baseball League championship, edging Reapers 5-3 last night at the Andre Rodgers National Baseball Stadium to take a 2-1 lead in the championship rematch series.
Teen surfers show 'indomitable spirit'
ELIZA Denning’s run at the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships came to an end yesterday, but the young Bahamian leaves El Salvador with valuable experience from competing against some of the best junior surfers in the world.
MP: ‘Written guarantees ’critical for beach vendors
AN OPPOSITION MP yesterday demanded written guarantees that properly licensed Cabbage Beach vendors will be allowed to return following proposed erosion control works as the Ministry of Tourism affirmed planned fencing and pilings are temporary and will not restrict public access.
Bahamas Grid: 27 legacy cable faults require repair
BAHAMAS Grid Company (BGC) says it has cut the backlog of legacy underground electric cable faults by almost 50 percent since it took over management of New Providence’s transmission and distribution network in April.
Bahama Rock: ‘Permanent close’ if approvals rejected
BAHAMA Rock yesterday confirmed it will likely “close permanently” if the Government fails to approve access to a new aggregate source on the 515-acre former Bahamas Cement Company property that it acquired last year.
Gov’t urged to ‘pay attention’ to Bahama Rock’s closing threat for local construction
A BAHAMIAN developer yesterday warned this nation will become “increasingly uncompetitive in construction” versus its Caribbean rivals if Bahama Rock’s aggregate production halt leads to protracted supply shortages and worsens already-spiking materials costs.
Doctors Hospital eyes 33% emergency room fee slash
Doctors Hospital plans to slash the deposit requirement for patients to access its emergency room services by one-third after cutting losses on unpaid medical bills and other assets below its annual 3 percent of sales target ratio.
STATESIDE: The consequences (and memories) of Sept 11th
FOR Americans of a certain age, there was for decades one singular, defining question: “Where were you when JFK was shot?”
FRONT PORCH: What will we show King Charles?
THE impending visit of King Charles as king of The Bahamas and head of state is anachronistic. Celebrating the British monarch as our sovereign is archaic, a relic of the past for a sovereign country still glorying in colonial fawning and servility.
Abaco residents warned over possible python sighting
ABACO residents have been warned to stay away from large snakes and immediately report suspected Burmese python sightings as officials investigate whether the potentially invasive species is present on the island.
Georges backs call for English lessons
IMMIGRATION rights activist Louby Georges has backed calls for parents to ensure children who cannot speak English receive language instruction before entering public schools, arguing that placing them directly into English-only classrooms puts both students and teachers at a disadvantage.
Evans: Retirement rules fuel judicial brain drain
COURT of Appeal President Justice Milton Evans has warned that mandatory retirement ages are draining the Bahamian judiciary of experienced judges, saying some are forced from the bench just as they reach their professional stride and later take their expertise to other countries.
‘We still don’t have answers’
THREE months after primary school teacher Jillian Pinder was abducted from her Lake Cunningham home, stabbed in the throat and left for dead, no one has been charged with her killing and her family says it remains desperate for answers.
Technology critical to agility in economic shock survival
Economic uncertainty is the only certainty Bahamian businesses can rely on.
Union voices frustration on FIU industrial deal progress
A TRADE union yesterday alleged that frustration is growing among Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) staff after almost a year of negotiations have left their industrial agreement still unsigned despite most terms being settled.
