Haitian migrants caught by RBDF in water off Inagua
NEARLY 150 Haitian migrants were apprehended during a joint operation by law enforcement officers and US Coast Guard in waters off Inagua yesterday.
Teachers are placed on ‘industrial action alert’
MEMBERS of the Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) have been placed on industrial action alert after overwhelmingly rejecting the Government’s salary counter-proposal for a fifth time, setting the stage for a potential escalation of a long-running dispute just as the school year gets underway.
Fire destroys home
A FAMILY understood to include two children was among tenants displaced after an early-morning fire destroyed a home in Golden Gates II yesterday.
Dr Sands calls on PLP to say whether Warren Ellis got government contacts
FREE National Movement chairman Dr Duane Sands has called on the Davis administration to say whether murdered businessman Warren “Spy” Ellis received government contracts, as opposition scrutiny intensifies over the administration’s alleged dealings with people linked to serious criminal activity.
Trial for owner of two dogs alleged to have attacked woman on beach
A PROMINENT Grand Bahama resident is facing trial after his dogs allegedly attacked and bit a woman as she walked on a beach in an upscale Freeport residential area earlier this year.
Twenty four-year-old shot dead was wearing electronic monitor
A GRAPHIC video circulating on social media shows bystanders frantically trying to help a 24-year-old man moments after he was fatally shot near Bay Street and Parliament Street early yesterday.
Police pursued innocent man ‘with malice’ for six years
A MAN who spent 682 days in maximum security on a murder charge remained under prosecution for more than six years after an autopsy found the alleged victim died from sudden cardiac death, with a Supreme Court judge now ruling that the case was pursued with malice and without reasonable and probable cause.
Bahamas Educator Managerial Union members return to work
MEMBERS of the Bahamas Educators Managerial Union returned to work yesterday after the Supreme Court ordered an end to its industrial action, but its president says the grievances that triggered the industrial action remain unresolved and relations with the government are “not in a good place”.
PHA launches investigation into complaint from family of five-month-old baby
THE Public Hospitals Authority has launched an investigation into a complaint from the family of a five-month-old baby who has been receiving care at Princess Margaret Hospital since suffering a prolonged seizure last month.
20-year sentence demanded for man who fatally stabbed younger girlfriend
PROSECUTORS have asked a Supreme Court judge to sentence a man convicted of fatally stabbing his 21-year-old girlfriend in their South Beach apartment in 2012 to 20 years in prison, while the defence is seeking a term of seven to 12 years.
Conditional discharge despite stealing $153,000 from Ministry
A WOMAN admitted to stealing more than $153,000 from the Ministry of Education over nearly four years and was granted a conditional discharge.Tossie Pugh, 48, pleaded guilty before Deputy Chief Magistrate Shaka Serville to stealing $153,173.05 from the ministry between August 2021 and January 2025.
Two jailed for stealing silver Toyota Passo
TWO men have been jailed after admitting to stealing a car in New Providence last month, with the repeat offender receiving the longer sentence.
$7,000 bail for man accused of groping girlfriend’s daughter, 12
A MAN was accused yesterday of indecently assaulting his girlfriend’s 12-year-old daughter at their East Street home in June.
COI’s Lincoln Bain back in court over disputed property ownership
COALITION of Independents leader Lincoln Bain has been ordered by a Supreme Court judge to spell out the basis on which he says he was entitled to enter or occupy two disputed West Bay Street properties and identify documents he says supported another man’s claim of ownership.
Small islands paying “sovereignty discount” in digital economy, says PM
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis yesterday warned that small island states are paying a “sovereignty discount” in the global digital economy and urged them to unite around a common position on data, telecommunications infrastructure and regulatory control.
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- Prime Minister Philip Davis predicts his party's return to government in the 2026 general election
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- Liquor being sold at a store
- New Providence ahead of the lockdown
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- The disruption in Parliament
- Second video of fire at Bimini BPL
- Video of fire at Bimini BPL
- Second video of Bimini BPL blaze
- Video of fire at Bimini BPL
