Six seniors and four staff test positive at one care home
THE Ministry of Social Services has reinstated several safety measures at all senior citizens homes across the country after six seniors and four staff members at one eldercare home recently tested positive for COVID-19.
A real champion
DEPUTY director of the Bahamas Crisis Centre Donna Nicolls died at 67-years-old in Jamaica on Monday.
Body discovered on Blue Hill soccer field
A MAN’S body was found at the Blue Hill soccer field yesterday.
Vaccine’s here - more need to take it
THIRTY-THREE thousand six hundred doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine arrived in New Providence yesterday, boosting the country’s fight against the potentially deadly virus even though many residents remain hesitant to get the jab.
Dames warns smugglers - we’ll get you in the end
NATIONAL Security Minister Marvin Dames yesterday issued a stern warning to those who continue to engage in illegal drug trafficking, insisting they will be caught.
‘DO WE WANT TO LIVE LIKE HAITI?’: Bannister fires back at UN, warning of danger ignoring shanty towns
WORKS Minister Desmond Bannister said Bahamians must decide if they want to live in a country like The Bahamas or a country like Haiti where there is “dirt, garbage, shanty towns all over the place”.
Man accused of unlawful sex
A 20-year-old man was charged in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with unlawful sexual intercourse.
14 months in jail for possession of firearm
A 31-year-old man who was caught driving around with an illegal firearm was yesterday sentenced to 14 months in prison.
$1,000 fine for threat to kill and assault
A 30-year-old man who threatened to kill a man before assaulting another was yesterday fined $1,000 and ordered to compensate both of his victims.
Commodore: RBDF managing infections, declines to disclose his test result
THE ROYAL Bahamas Defence Force only had about eight active cases and 31 people in quarantine as of a week ago, RBDF Commodore Raymond King said yesterday.
Nurses: End state of emergency
THE Bahamas Nurses Union has suggested the government put an end to the state of emergency, which is set to expire on May 23, saying The Bahamas must learn to coexist with the COVID virus.
Nation ‘not in a good place’
FORMER Health Minister Dr Duane Sands feels the country is “not in a good place” where COVID-19 cases are concerned and thinks the only way forward is to tighten restrictions.
Tributes paid to fallen of the Flamingo
MARINE Seaman David Tucker joined the Royal Bahamas Defence Force two months before his untimely death 41 years ago.
Pilot held in $1.6m cocaine bust
A BAHAMIAN pilot is in custody after landing a plane in Cat Island with cocaine that is estimated to value about $1.6m. Assistant Superintendent of Police Audley Peters said yesterday another man fled the plane and escaped.
Public demand for vaccine ‘flattened’
DEMAND for the COVID-19 vaccine has flattened in The Bahamas even as more doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca jab could arrive in the country as early as today, according to Ed Fields, deputy chair of the National COVID-19 Vaccine Consultative Committee.
