FNM to break rule on convention
DESPITE its constitutional rule mandating conventions be held every two years, the Free National Movement will not convene a session until mid-2019.Free National Movement Chairman Carl Culmer confirmed this yesterday, adding the approval to put on th
Tributes paid as Dr Wendy Stuart dies
AFTER fighting with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) for more than eight years, beloved former dentist Dr Wendy Stuart passed away on Saturday night.Dr Stuart, mother-of-two and the daughter of the late Bahamian singer Wendell Stuart, was diagnose
Minnis hails Bahamas' role in fighting apartheid
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis flagged the country’s historic role in the fight against apartheid yesterday during his remarks at the United Nations’ Nelson Mandela Peace Summit in New York.Speaking to world dignitaries, Dr Minnis said amid global w
Union: Govt will get Lucayan money back and more
THE union representing Grand Lucayan workers believes the government will recoup all financial expenses used to purchase the resort and more.
Suspects detained after police seize drug hauls
TWO men are in police custody following the seizure of suspected marijuana valued at $15,000 in southwestern New Providence on Saturday.
UPDATED: Hit and run driver left victim to die in road
TRAFFIC police are investigating the circumstances surrounding a hit-and-run traffic fatality that occurred on the Tonique Williams-Darling highway.
Legal debts could force Nygard sale
ENVIRONMENTAL activists are seeking a Supreme Court order to have Nygard Cay sold to satisfy the $2.2m debt Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygard owes in legal costs from illegal dredging activities.
Longline fishing ‘must not be allowed’
THE Bahamas National Trust is strongly opposed to the introduction of longline fishing within the country’s economic exclusive zone - a destructive practice it warned that could change the Bahamian way of life forever.
Suspect shot dead ‘pointed gun at police’
A 22-year-old shot and killed by police in the Nassau Village community two years ago was not the person they were seeking to apprehend, according to police testimony on Friday.
‘1,200 in work thanks to Labour on the Blocks’
SOME 1,200 people have been permanently employed as a result of the government’s Labour on the Blocks initiative, according to Department of Labour officials giving the results of its eighth job fair.
DNA hits out at ‘lazy’ resort purchase
THE Minnis administration’s “lazy” purchase of the Grand Lucayan Resort has exposed a lack of “business and negotiating skills” on the government’s part, according to Democratic National Alliance Deputy Leader Arinthia Komolafe.
Funeral announced for George Pyfrom
FUNERAL services for George Loran Pyfrom, IV, 67, who died suddenly on Wednesday afternoon, will be held at St Matthew’s Anglican Church on Shirley and Church Streets on Friday, September 28, at 4pm.The Rt Rev Bishop Laish Boyd, Sr, Bishop of the Dio
Man stable in hospital after shooting
A MAN is in hospital following a shooting in the Flamingo Gardens community on Saturday.According to police reports, shortly after 10pm, a man was walking through a track road off Nigeria Drive when he was approached by a man with a firearm.The gunma
PHA: Expansion of salaries and benefits 'not sustainable at this time'
THE Public Hospitals Authority has disclosed that the expansion of salaries and benefits of medical personnel is “simply not sustainable at this time”, in the wake of last week’s demonstrations by healthcare unions over such outstanding issues.
Govt to cap number of subventions for UWI medical students
HEALTH Minister Dr Duane Sands has confirmed that the government will be capping the number of subventions allocated to medical students at the University of the West Indies to 25, noting this number is the “historic norm” that has increased “outside of policy” over recent years.
