'We need to rethink 50% capacity limit'
AFTER months of being out of business due to the COVID-19 restrictions, taxicab drivers say they are happy to resume operations now that international travel has resumed in the country.Speaking to reporters outside Lynden Pindling International Airpo
Plans underway for 'virtual' Independence celebrations
FOR the first time in the nation’s history, Bahamians will not gather en masse to celebrate the country’s independence due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, the national independence celebrations committee is preparing a four-hour, made for televis
WELCOME BACK: First foreign flights arrive but numbers of passengers light
TOURISTS and returning residents descended on Lynden Pindling International Airport as commercial international travel resumed yesterday.
Brave warns - we’re taking risks
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leader Philip “Brave” Davis slammed the Minnis administration’s COVID-19 plans yesterday, saying the government is not doing enough to protect residents as the borders reopen.
Judges throw out murder conviction
THE Court of Appeal recently quashed the murder sentence of a man who was accused of shooting and killing another man in 2015, after the accused appealed his conviction on the grounds that during the trial the judge failed to give him a good character direction to which he was “entitled”.
Anguish of Baha Mar’s axed staff
AFTER a wave of layoffs at Baha Mar this week, one former employee said losing her job left her with “anguish in my heart”.
Teenager to pay compensation to pair after throwing rocks
A TEENAGER was ordered to compensate a man and woman after he admitted to damaging their property when he threw rocks at them during an altercation on Baillou Hill Road last week. Shervin Oliver, 19, appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney charge
Jamaican woman admits scissors assault
A JAMAICAN woman was placed on 12 months’ probation yesterday after she admitted assaulting a man with a dangerous instrument earlier this week. Shanice Thomas, 27, appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney after she was accused of assaulting Patri
Community service order for marijuana possession
A man was ordered to complete community service after he pleaded guilty to marijuana possession in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Gerreth Smith, 26, appeared before Magistrate Sandradee Gardiner after officers seized 12 grams of Indian Hemp from
Man, 26, accused of attempted murder
A 26-year-old man was charged with attempted murder yesterday. Derinardo Mott appeared before Magistrate Samuel McKinney after he was accused of trying to kill Antoine Williamson on June 17. According to initial police reports, shortly before 6pm t
Smith to step down from University of The Bahamas in 2022
THE UNIVERSITY of The Bahamas (UB) will seek to find “the most qualified candidate” to replace president Dr Rodney Smith, Education Minister Jeff Lloyd said yesterday after it was revealed the president will not renew his contract at the institution,
Some residents are happy to travel - others not so sure
WHILE some Bahamians are ready to take a trip abroad after several months of the country’s borders being closed, others are hesitant to travel overseas due to rising COVID-19 cases in some parts of the world. Paulette Culmer says she plans to travel
EU excludes Bahamas from list of countries allowed to visit
THE Bahamas has been left off the list of countries whose residents are allowed to travel to the European Union when the bloc opens its borders to international travel today. Due to a spike in COVID-19 cases in the United States, America has also be
No lapse in state of emergency, says Minnis
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis tabled Governor General CA Smith’s new proclamation of emergency orders in the House of Assembly yesterday and stressed there has been no discontinuity in the enforcement of his COVID-19 emergency regulations. “Many i
BPL Skyguard Severe Weather Alert 1st July: Freeport
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