Woman robbed after taking cash from ATM
NEW Providence police are searching for the man who robbed a woman of cash shortly after she withdrew money from an ATM on Saturday. Police said the woman had just taken money out of the ATM on Wulff Road when she was approached by an armed man who
That's a lame excuse, says union chief
BAHAMAS Union of Teachers president Belinda Wilson released a statement yesterday dismissing Education Director Marcellus Taylor’s “lame excuse” as to why 100 newly recruited teachers are still at home waiting to be employed and assigned to public sc
Greek archbishop visits scene of hurricane
GREEK Archbishop Elpidophoros travelled from New York to The Bahamas last week to meet with government officials, visit with the local Greek Orthodox congregation and view first-hand the devastation wrought in Abaco and Grand Bahama by Hurricane Dori
Harbour Island developers looking forward to 'untangling the red tape'
A HARBOUR Island development company yesterday said a judge’s order for it to stay construction until it gets the requisite approvals from the relevant authority was just an issue of “red tape.”
New acting port controller
THE government has announced that Lieutenant Commander Berne Wright has been appointed as the new acting port controller. He is responsible for all government operated port facilities within the country. As port controller, he oversees the inspectio
Two die in Abaco crash horror
TWO men are dead and two others are in the hospital following a horrific two-car collision that occurred in Abaco early Monday morning.
Abaco airport security staff in walkout
A SMALL group of Leonard M Thompson International Airport security officers walked off the job last week, but the situation never compromised the already strained operations of the facility, Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar said yesterday.Accordin
Like so many missing - silence
IT has been seven painstaking and worrisome weeks for relatives of Tanario Lowe, an Abaco native not heard from since the day before Hurricane Dorian destroyed the island. “We don’t know what to think or what to do, or where to go from here,” his si
Man shot dead in Pinewood Gardens
Police are investigating after a man was shot dead in Pinewood Gardens on Sunday night.
NO BACKING DOWN ON DEPORTATIONS: Govt rejects UN’s concern over new migrant expulsions
THE government’s decision to resume deportation of undocumented migrants was “painstaking”, but came only after careful analysis at a time deemed appropriately humane and necessary, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
‘Why change RBDF top command now?’
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leader Philip “Brave” Davis has questioned whether the Royal Bahamas Defence Force’s change in leadership will impact ongoing recovery efforts on storm-ravaged islands.
‘Time to bin Oban after huge spill at refinery’
THE massive oil spill in Grand Bahama caused by Hurricane Dorian should be incentive enough for the government to reject the controversial Oban refinery proposal, an environmental watchdog has asserted.
Harbour Island project ‘unlawful’
A HARBOUR Island development must make an application to the “appropriate authority” and receive the requisite approvals “in compliance with the law” if work is to ever resume on the project, a Supreme Court judge has ruled.
OAS chief congratulates PM
Luis Almagro, Secretary-General of the Organisation of American States, congratulated Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis on the government’s leadership and response to Hurricane Dorian during a courtesy call at the Office of the Prime Minister on Friday
Trial for pair accused of killing mother
THE remaining two women accused of murdering teenage mother Breanna Mackey last year will stand trial tomorrow. Dervinique Edwards and Zaria Burrows will be tried before Justice Cheryl Grant-Thompson over allegations they murdered the 19-year-old on
