On alert for Aussie flu virus
HEALTH Minister Dr Duane Sands is encouraging Bahamians to get their annual flu vaccine as a precaution against the deadly Australian or “Aussie” flu virus that is spreading around the world.
Two more die in GB shootings
A MAN was shot dead near a popular restaurant at Port Lucaya marketplace on Saturday evening, leaving bystanders in a state of shock as Grand Bahama recorded its third murder within a week.
Potty – going to jail over a joint
NO reasonable person can deny the Bahamas must scrutinise laws that criminalise people possessing small amounts of marijuana, Foreign Affairs Minister Darren Henfield said Friday.
Boat captain and migrants appear in court
A Bahamian boat captain and eight Chinese nationals rescued after a boat capsized in waters off Grand Bahama were arraigned in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court last week.
Man robbed in his car in Harbour Bay
POLICE are asking the public to come forth with any information they may have in solving a number of armed robberies which occured on Friday.
Americans held after guns and ammunition found
TWO Americans are in police custody after a search of private residence in Abaco uncovered a high-powered weapon and more than 600 rounds of ammunition.
Man dies after fall from scaffold
A MAN has died as a result of injuries he sustained in an apparent industrial accident on Saturday evening in Grand Bahama.
Ship battered as bomb cyclone continues to hit US east coast
THE intense winter storm known as the “bomb cyclone” ripping through the US East Coast battered a ship carrying some 4,000 passengers on a return trip from the Bahamas.
What Aidan taught me and John Hopkins
Hundreds gathered in St Anslem’s Catholic Church on Friday for the funeral of two-year-old cancer victim Aidan Carron.
Kirk honours Sir Geoffrey Johnstone
When a man impacts his generation and the one after him, he is fondly remembered even after his passing. Such is the legacy of Sir Geoffrey Adams Dinwiddie Johnstone, KCMG. Scores of his admirers - those whose lives he touched - gathered at St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Kirk on Saturday to witness the church hall be dedicated in his honour.
Man dies after fatal crash off Carmichael Road
A man has died after a fatal crash off Carmichael Road on Friday night.
Court dismisses employees' seven-day work week appeal
THE Court of Appeal has dismissed the legal bid of more than 20 Freeport Container Port employees to overturn the Supreme Court's upholding of their employer's previously implemented seven-day work week on the grounds that was not in violation of the Employment Act.
Man shot dead at Grand Bahama nightclub
The country has recorded its second murder of 2018 after a young man was shot dead outside a popular nightclub in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
Don’t blame us - we warned you: Symonette says migrants had time to register
IMMIGRATION Minister Brent Symonette yesterday said there could be no excuse for the fate of unregularised migrants apprehended by increased enforcement measures, which he stated were already underway.
Christie’s PLP critics ‘shown no respect’
FORMER Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) MP George Smith said party members who urged former Prime Minister Perry Christie to keep his promise to step down as party leader in the middle of his last term were were “not treated respectfully and appropriately” by the previous administration.
