Outrunning hunger in The Bahamas
HANDS for Hunger will host its first ever community fun run and walk on November 3 to help raise awareness of food insecurity.
Spay and neuter clinic helps for free
THE Mount Moriah constituency held a spay and neuter clinic in partnership with animal advocacy group BAARK! on the weekend.
Bahamian students safe amid Trinidad flooding
AFTER more than three days of flooding, landslides, and an earthquake, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday declared a national disaster. Although there were no reports of damage following the earthquake – measuring 5.1 on th
One man dead, one injured after shooting
One man is dead and another is in hospital after a shooting off West Street on Sunday night.
‘Disney’s go-ahead shows we need plan’
ENVIRONMENTALISTS are calling for “better national planning” in terms of economic and environmental sustainability in the wake of the Minnis administration’s decision to approve Disney Cruise Line’s proposal for Lighthouse Point, South Eleuthera.
Halkitis insists: We followed the rules
FORMER State Finance Minister Michael Halkitis questioned the motive behind the recent tabling of a report in Parliament highlighting alleged political pressure for a web shop boss to be awarded a lucrative contract for computer supplies, adding proper procedure was “short circuited” when the report was made public.
$6m fine, jail and don’t come back
MORE than 120 Dominican poachers have been fined $52,000 each for “stripping” and “raping” the country’s waters of close to 70,000 pounds worth of fisheries products, with the captains of the crew ordered to pay close to double that amount - and a warning: “Do not come back.”
Post Office deal ‘doesn’t add up’
OFFICIAL Opposition Leader Philip “Brave” Davis said while the former Christie administration considered Town Centre Mall for the General Post Office’s relocation, the party stepped away from the decision as the costs associated with the move would not have been a prudent expenditure of public funds.
These claims are old news, says Griffin
FORMER Social Services Minister Melanie Griffin insisted yesterday that concerns highlighted in a recently tabled auditor general’s report were “old” and already addressed under the previous Christie administration.She explained not only was discipli
Rape charge
A Freeport man was charged with rape on Friday in the Grand Bahama Magistrate’s Court.Jamal Jeremy Lightbourne, 33, was arraigned before Deputy Chief Magistrate Debbye Ferguson. He was not required to enter a plea to the charge and was remanded to th
Parents demand action over Cat Island teacher shortage
TWENTY-FIVE parents held a demonstration outside a Cat Island high school on Friday to protest a reported “teacher shortage” at the school. Videos of the demonstration have since gone viral on social media, with participants holding signs and shoutin
New role for hospital administrator
Mary Walker, the hospital administrator at the Princess Margaret Hospital who was placed on temporary leave after a leaked internal memo on new fees for dialysis patients, is due to take over as head of the Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre.Ms Walker
Man dies after industrial accident on Inagua
Police on Inagua are investigating an industrial accident which left a man dead on Sunday.
49 Dominican men admit taking undersized grouper and crawfish
CLOSE to 50 Dominican poachers have admitted to illegally taking thousands of pounds of undersized grouper and crawfish from Bahamian waters over the weekend.
Woman and teen charged with attempting to smuggle drugs into Department of Corrections
A 24-year-old woman and a teenager were charged in a Magistrate’s Court on Friday with attempting to smuggle drugs into the Bahamas Department of Corrections in a plate of food earlier this week.
