Police investigate fatal daylight shooting on Dunmore Avenue
A 34-year-old man was shot dead shortly after arriving in the Dunmore Avenue and Symonnette Street area on Friday.
New five-year contract gives 460 Bahamasair workers higher pay
A NEW five-year industrial agreement valued at about $3.2m has been signed between Bahamasair and the Airport Airline and Allied Workers Union, giving more than 460 workers improved salaries, benefits and working conditions at the national airline.
Key prosecution witness denies double-crossing Gibson in trial
A KEY prosecution witness denied that she double-crossed and tricked Adrian Gibson and the Water and Sewerage Corporation into believing she was acting on behalf of clients.
Cabinet line-up changes and appointments announced
PRIME Minister Philip Davis appointed 21 Cabinet ministers and seven state ministers over the weekend after the Progressive Liberal Party’s landslide election victory.
Davis appoints one of largest Cabinets in history
PRIME Minister Philip Davis has given The Bahamas a ministerial team that rivals or exceeds those of larger Caribbean neighbours, placing nearly 30 ministers over a country of about 400,000 people and renewing questions about the size and cost of government.
FNM: Bastian and Miller-Brice posts may be tested in court
THE Free National Movement says the new Cabinet appointments of Sebas Bastian and Leslia Miller-Brice should be tested before the courts if necessary, arguing that the government has not fully explained how two people with known links to the gaming industry were cleared to serve as ministers under the Gaming Act.
Prime Minister names Jerome Fitzgerald to Cabinet post
JEROME Fitzgerald, whose political career was scarred by controversy over efforts to secure Baha Mar contracts for a company formed by his father, has been returned to Cabinet and placed in charge of economic affairs nearly a decade after the scandal made him one of the faces of the PLP’s vulnerability before its crushing 2017 defeat.
The Cocaine Files
A HIGH-RANKING Bahamian politician brazenly met with members of what they believed to be an international drug smuggling cartel to discuss a huge upcoming shipment of US-bound cocaine - inside the Bahamian Parliament Building, The Tribune can reveal today.
PM Davis to deliver keynote address at historic IPCC meeting in Nassau
MORE than 200 of the world’s leading climate change scientists will descend on Nassau this week
New Attorney general Munroe dismisses conflict concerns
NEWLY appointed Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Wayne Munroe dismissed concerns that his history of suing the government and representing clients charged by the state would create a conflict of interest in his new role.
Davis names one of largest Cabinets in Bahamian history
PRIME Minister Philip Davis has unveiled one of the largest executive administrations in Bahamian history, swearing in a 28-member team of Cabinet and state ministers following the Progressive Liberal Party’s landslide general election victory.
Man remanded to prison over Baillou Hill Road bus shooting
A MAN accused in the near-fatal shooting of a bus driver and another man on Baillou Hill Road last month was remanded to prison yesterday.
Bahamas to host 200 global climate scientists next week
More than 200 of the world's leading climate change scientists will descend on Nassau next week as The Bahamas hosts a crucial international conference - the largest gathering of its kind ever held in the Caribbean.
Davis pledges to unite country as he is sworn in for second term as PM
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis was sworn in for a second consecutive term yesterday after leading the Progressive Liberal Party to a landslide victory on Tuesday, ending a three-decade pattern of Bahamians throwing administrations out after one term.
ERIC WIBERG: Lighthouses - Great Isaac Light, off Bimini
GREAT Isaac Lighthouse, on remote Great Isaac Cay, sits perched on a narrow rock 18 miles north of Bimini.
Munroe hints at govt return after losing Freetown seat
WAYNE Munroe hinted he could return to government in an appointed role after becoming the only sitting Cabinet minister to lose his seat in the 2026 general election, saying yesterday he was disappointed but not demoralised by his defeat in Freetown.
Ex-fiancée testifies Gibson holds Elite Maintenance company register
THE former fiancée of Long Island MP Adrian Gibson told the Supreme Court yesterday that he has the company register for Elite Maintenance, a business she previously claimed he owned from the shadows despite not appearing on corporate documents.
'We thought we was going to die’
PLANE crash survivor Olympia Outten wept yesterday as she recalled how she feared all 11 people aboard would die after their light aircraft nose-dived into the ocean after both engines failed in stormy conditions on an election day flight from Abaco to Grand Bahama.
PRD plans postmortem into election day voting problems
PARLIAMENTARY Commissioner Harrison Thompson said officials will conduct a postmortem into the 2026 general election after complaints that some voters were missing from the register, assigned to the wrong constituencies or forced to cast protest ballots.
Golding criticises lack of campaign finance laws
BAHAMIAN elections remain wide open to the influence of money because successive governments have failed to pass campaign finance laws despite years of warnings, former Jamaican Prime Minister Bruce Golding said yesterday.
