'Outdated price control fails to offer healthy food'
PRICE control is a failed and outdated social policy that artificially lowers the cost of select foods while driving up costs on other healthier options, according to AML Foods Vice President Marketing & Communications Renea Bastian.
Pintard defends extra funding for consultants
MINISTER of Agriculture and Marine Resources Michael Pintard yesterday defended the 2019/2020 budget increase for consultancy agencies, domestic and international travel and the Bahamas Agricultural & Industrial Corporation (BAIC).
Parliament cell phone ban after protest goes viral
HOUSE Speaker Halson Moultrie has ruled that visitors will be prohibited from carrying cell phones into the gallery after videos of a disturbance in Parliament last week went viral on social media.
Police hunt suspects after series of armed robberies
POLICE on New Providence and Grand Bahama are searching for the suspects behind several armed robberies that occurred on Tuesday.
Man who killed woman on porch has appeal rejected
A MAN has failed at appealing his 15-year sentence for trying to kill a woman as she sat on a porch five years ago.
Carnival clears land for EIA
CARNIVAL Corporation has started initial land clearing work at East Grand Bahama in preparation of conducting an environmental impact assessment study for construction of its proposed $100m cruise port on Grand Bahama.
Moree to take up post on June 12
THE Cabinet Office has announced that Brian Moree, QC, will take his position as the country’s newest chief justice on June 12.
'Don't be deterred by failures', Turnquest urges graduates
DEPUTY Prime Minister Peter Turnquest told some 60 graduates of the University of The Bahamas North in Grand Bahama not to be deterred or derailed by challenges and failures, but to take control of their destiny and embrace the opportunities in front of them.
Mother of graduate found in Turin: ‘I can’t believe it was an accident’
AS Italian officials downplay the possibility of foul play in the deaths of two Bahamian men, their mothers find it difficult to believe their deaths could have been accidental.
Briton’s death due to heart failure
POLICE are still awaiting the results of a toxicology report as rumours persist over the mysterious death of British national Dannie Lea.
Lanisha’s ministry: We need to talk
THE Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture is committed to taking all necessary steps toward resolving the reported tensions between Minister Lanisha Rolle and the Bahamas Olympic Committee, according to a senior ministry official.
VAT fuel waiver beat households target
AN estimated 79,000 households have benefitted from the Minnis administration’s concession that eliminates value added tax on Bahamas Power and Light bills under $300.
Beloved couple perish in blaze
THE badly burned bodies of a husband and wife were discovered among the ruins of a house fire in the upscale canal residential subdivision of Emerald Bay, Grand Bahama early Wednesday morning.
UPDATED: Body of second Bahamian man found in river
5.50pm UPDATE: Officials have confirmed that the body of Blair John was pulled from the river Po on Wednesday morning.
Man who beat victim to death with cement block for slapping his mother jailed for ten years
A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to a decade in prison for beating a 50-year-old man to death with a cement block because he slapped his mother.
