Pineridge emerging as key election battleground
PINERIDGE is shaping up to be one of the most closely watched battlegrounds of the coming election, with at least four candidates expected to contest a seat many voters describe as a true swing constituency.
Driver of crashed gov’t truck still under probe one month later
MORE than a month after a government-issued truck was captured on video speeding, swerving through traffic and crashing into other vehicles before driving off, police are still investigating the matter.
Weaker cold front to bring cool weekend weather
WEATHER officials say a weaker cold front is expected to affect The Bahamas from Thursday through Sunday, bringing cool but far less severe conditions than the unusually cold and windy system that impacted the country last weekend.
Juvenile gets 18 months prison for attempted shop-breaking
A 16-year-old boy was sentenced to 18 months in prison after admitting to attempting to break into a shop on Robinson Road.
Father sentenced to 15 years for incest with young daughter
A 32-year-old man who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting his six-year-old daughter in 2022 was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Man denies illegal dumping at Marshall Road wetlands
A MAN denied illegally dumping waste in wetlands near Marshall Road West last month.
48 migrants convicted on immigration offences
THIRTY-six Panamanian nationals and twelve Haitian nationals were convicted in separate Magistrate’s Court proceedings yesterday after pleading guilty to immigration offences stemming from a recent enforcement operation in New Providence.
Agriculture director admits ‘weak enforcement’ as stray dog crisis grows
ENFORCEMENT of animal welfare laws needs strengthening, Director of Agriculture Dr Jason Sands admitted yesterday, while acknowledging that addressing the country’s stray dog problem is not an easy task.
IT staff protest outside OPM over outstanding unresolved promotions and regularisations
STAFF of the Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) yesterday staged a protest outside the Office of the Prime Minister over outstanding promotions and regularisations.
Smith backtracks on Grand Lucayan ‘non-sale’ remarks
WEST Grand Bahama and Bimini MP Kingsley Smith backtracked yesterday on remarks he made about the sale of the Grand Lucayan resort after telling reporters the transaction had not happened despite government officials saying otherwise.
Repeat offender accused of theft at Dr Duane Sands' home
A REPEAT offender accused of stealing from and trespassing on the property of FNM chairman Dr Duane Sands was remanded to prison yesterday.
FOAM president says celebrate your birthday by donating blood
NEARLY every day, another flyer circulates appealing for blood donations for someone in need — young or old — a reality that has prompted Khandi Gibson, president of Families of All Murder Victims (FOAM), to challenge the public to mark their birthdays by giving a pint of blood.
The quiet victims - kids left behind by murder
AS a new month begins, some children in The Bahamas are still learning how to live without a mother or father taken by murder — and the relatives now raising them are doing so while grieving themselves.
FNM demands answers after BGC 'denied access' during blackout
FREE National Movement Senator Michela Barnett-Ellis is demanding answers from the Davis administration following claims by Bahamas Grid Company (BGC) that it was denied access to the New Providence Control Center during the weekend’s island-wide power outage.
Unlawfully detained Guyanese man awarded $75K settlement
A SUPREME Court judge has ruled that a Guyanese man was unlawfully detained for more than three months in 2006 under an invalid deportation order and in conditions that breached his constitutional rights, awarding him $75,000 in damages but rejecting his claims that his later arrest, prosecution and year-long imprisonment on bribery charges were unlawful.
