Christie won’t publicly endorse any PLP leadership candidate
FORMER Prime Minister Perry Christie has decided not to publicly endorse any candidate for leadership of the Progressive Liberal Party as the organization prepares to head into its national convention later this month.
Cynthia ‘Mother’ Pratt wants memoirs to inspire
MORE than a testament to her life’s work, former Deputy Prime Minister Cynthia “Mother” Pratt wants her foundation and memoirs to live on as a permanent fixture of empowerment and hope for inner-city communities.
Woman dies in drive-by shooting
A WOMAN is dead after she was shot in the Peardale area off Wulff Road last night, police said.
Hopes fade of eradicating hunger in region by 2030
GLOBAL Health organizations have reported that the ambitious goal to eradicate hunger by 2030 is becoming increasingly unobtainable as the number of people suffering in the region steadily increases.
US couple vanish on wedding flight
THE family of an American couple booked to honeymoon in the Bahamas last month have launched a social media campaign to find them after more than two weeks with no contact.
Davis vows: I’ll cut off heads to save party
INTERIM Progressive Liberal Party leader Philip “Brave” Davis has vowed to “cut the heads off” anyone in the PLP who stands in the way of the party’s “growth and progress”.
PLP line up to attack Turnquest
EXUMA & Ragged Island MP Chester Cooper yesterday accused Finance Minister K Peter Turnquest of pushing “partisan rhetoric” instead of answering real questions about the country’s economy.
‘Cut civil service wage bill by $70M‘
The IMF has urged the Government to slash the civil service wage bill by almost $70 million, as it slammed the Christie administration’s “lax spending controls” pre-general election.
Man dies after crash in Abaco
Police in Abaco are investigating a traffic accident which has left a 31-year-old man dead.
Pedestrian dies after two car collision
Last night police revealed another person had died after a collision between two cars on Tonique Williams Darling Highway.
Davis: Money doesn't just walk out of the treasury
INTERIM Progressive Liberal Party Leader Phillip “Brave” Davis yesterday called the Minnis administration’s inability to pinpoint $42m of $150m borrowed under the former Christie administration for hurricane repairs “the height of incompetence”.“Mone
99 Haitian migrants apprehended
ROYAL Bahamas Defence Force officers apprehended 99 Haitian migrants in waters off Ragged Island Friday night.According to reports, HMBS Arthur D. Hanna spotted a Haitian sloop four miles southwest of the island. Officers searched the vessel and unco
Dominica after Irma: ‘A never ending scene of devastation and chaos’
Bishop Gabriel Malzaire of The Roman Catholic Diocese of Roseau, Dominica gave a firsthand account of the devastation and aftermath of Hurricane Irma after he visited nine of the island’s 15 parishes, three of which were still inaccessible by road, on September 25.
Family slams PMH after relative dies
AFTER losing their matriarch to kidney failure, distraught loved ones have complained about the “substandard” dialysis services at Princess Margaret Hospital.
CORRECTION
In our Religion pages we incorrectly reported that Capt. Fernley Palmer was deceased.
