UPDATED: Shuffling the pack
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis insisted his decision to reassign four Cabinet portfolios just 14 months after taking office does not mean he lost faith in any of his ministers, adding they performed “exceptionally well”.
Privy Council orders new appeal for policeman’s killers
THE Privy Council has ordered a new hearing of Stephen “Die” Stubbs and two other convicts’ appeal of their convictions and sentences for the murder of a policeman at a nightclub almost 20 years ago.
Halt ordered to tours as probe begins into Exuma boat inferno
EXUMA’s largest tour operator, Four C’s Adventures, has been issued a cease and desist order to suspend operations pending an investigation into the accident that killed one American woman, caused another to lose both of her legs and injured nine other people on Saturday, according to outgoing Transport and Local Government Minister Frankie Campbell.
Sentence in child molester case prompts legal rethink
THE Office of the Attorney General is considering reviewing the law as it relates to cases that are inappropriately charged, to allow officials to use their discretion to give tougher penalties where warranted.This comes as activists are calling for
Small group of VAT protestors not giving up fight
ALTHOUGH the increase of value added tax from 7.5 percent to 12 percent took effect on Sunday, an advocacy group is calling for the government to abolish this form of taxation and instead explore alternative avenues to collect revenue.Yesterday, a sm
Two in hospital after being shot in car
TWO men are in hospital after they were shot during an incident on Wellington Street, police said. The victims were sitting in a car in front of a home near St Vincent Road when two men approached, who opened fire. The incident occurred shortly befor
Pair jailed who killed Bahamian boat captain and threw him to the sharks
TWO men from the Republic of Georgia who stole a charter boat from Grand Bahama, stabbed a Bahamian captain and threw him overboard in shark-infested waters two years ago to smuggle two Brazilian men to South Florida have been sentenced to prison by
Minnis still quiet on permanent Chief Justice role
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis is still not ready to reveal who will be appointed substantive chief justice, telling reporters yesterday Bahamians will know “with time” who will fill the post.Despite failing to name an appointee for the last several
Robinson and Miller roles won't be replaced
THE parliamentary secretary posts left vacant when Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis fired MPs Travis Robinson and Vaughn Miller for voting against the value added tax increase will not be filled.According to Dr Minnis yesterday, the decision represent
Series of men accused of New Providence murders
TWO men, a 23-year-old Haitian and a 25-year-old Bahamian, were charged in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday with shooting two teen aged brothers in a barbershop last month.
Art prompts row as British body backs out
IN what one UK newspaper has called an “unprecedented rebuke,” the National Art Gallery of The Bahamas has criticised the British Council for distancing itself from a Bahamian show it commissioned.The British Council specialises in international cult
'Don't fire workers', web shops are urged
WITH the government’s new tax model for gaming house operators taking effect yesterday, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes over the weekend continued to plead with those operators that have threatened to lay off workers as a result, calling on them to be p
'Hunted and priced out of rent because of xenophobia'
SHANTY town residents in Abaco say they have nowhere else to go, adding xenophobia and unaddressed tensions between Bahamians and people of Haitian descent have caused unregulated communities to flourish. As government officials assessed the Pigeon P
Weekend rush as shoppers try to beat VAT increase
MANY shoppers flocked to stores on the weekend to save a few dollars hours before value added tax increased from 7.5 percent to 12 percent.
Inferno at sea
AN American woman died after a tour company’s boat engine exploded off Barraterre, Exuma, on Saturday in an accident that left ten other people, including her 39-year-old husband, one Bahamian and nine Americans, injured.
