Traffic fines surge 224% amid rising road accidents
FIXED penalty notices for traffic violators surged by 224 percent last year, as police significantly stepped up enforcement on the nation’s roads even while crashes continued to climb.
Rape trial hinges on ‘conflicting narratives’ as closing arguments end
A 24-year-old man raped a 19-year-old woman on Boxing Day 2024 after refusing to take no for an answer, prosecutors told a Supreme Court jury yesterday, as the defence portrayed the complainant as a vindictive former partner.
Hanna Martin eyes tougher penalties for campus assaults
EDUCATION officials are working with the Attorney General’s Office to create “peculiar offences” for assaults on school campuses, Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said yesterday, as the brutal iron-bar attack on a Grand Bahama principal renews calls for tougher consequences.
Four charged in Anatol Rodgers attack granted $5,000 bail
FOUR men accused of assaulting an Anatol Rodgers High School student with a tyre wrench and seriously injuring the school’s principal were granted bail yesterday.
Prosecution seeks 25 years for shotgun robbery
THE prosecution submitted yesterday that a man convicted of a 2017 armed robbery at a web shop on Carmichael Road should face up to 25 years in prison, while the defence argued that any sentence should not exceed 10 years.
Inmate denies smuggling four pounds of marijuana
AN inmate at the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services denied possessing contraband in prison last year, including more than four pounds of marijuana.
Three officers face tribunal over court escape of D’Angelo Culmer
COMMISSIONER of Police Shanta Knowles said three police officers have been hauled before a police tribunal over the escape of accused murderer D’Angelo Culmer from the Magistrates’ Court Complex, as disciplinary proceedings continue more than a year after he vanished from custody.
Suicides surge 60 percent as mental health distress climbs
POLICE recorded 16 suicides in 2025, a stark 60 percent increase over the 10 recorded the year before, as attempts and calls for help also climbed sharply.
10th annual Carleton Williams Scholarship now open for applicants - closing May 3
Caribbean Bottling Company (CBC), local producers of Coca-Cola and Dasani products, is proud to announce the 10th annual Caribbean Bottling Company Carleton Williams Scholarship is now open.
Winter Storm Fern strands Bahamians across the US
A DEADLY winter storm tearing across the United States has paralysed travel, knocked out power to hundreds of thousands, and left Bahamian travellers stranded far from home as airlines struggle to recover from days of cancellations and delays.
Slain homeless man’s family seeks answers
THE killing of a 69-year-old homeless man on East Bay Street has left his family struggling to understand how a routine weekend night ended in violence, insisting he was not confrontational and never troubled anyone.
PLPs divided over timing of pre-election convention
SENIOR Progressive Liberal Party figures and supporters are split over whether the party should stage a voting convention next month, with critics questioning its value so close to a general election and backers urging a show of strength and momentum.
PHA late telling govt overtime fund ‘bust’
HEALTH and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville has expressed concern over why the government was not notified earlier that the Public Hospitals Authority had exhausted its overtime funds for medical staff, suggesting a breakdown in communication between the PHA and the government.
Haitian pastor in $14,000 visa scam
AN employee at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and three Grand Bahama residents are accused of orchestrating a visa fraud scheme that prosecutors say siphoned more than $14,000 from a church-linked effort to bring a Haitian pastor and his wife and their eight children to The Bahamas.
‘General Orders don’t require ZNS chief to tender resignation’
PUBLIC Services Minister Pia Glover-Rolle has pushed back against opposition demands for the resignation of ZNS General Manager Clint Watson, insisting that General Orders do not require public officers to step aside while engaging in political activity unless and until they are formally ratified as candidates.
