New version of legislation 'different from last govt'
STATE Minister for Legal Affairs Elsworth Johnson said the way the Minnis administration has introduced its Interception of Communication Bill is different from how the Christie administration did so with their version of the legislation, saying the
Dominicans in the Bahamas join together to provide relief
WITH some of their families and friends displaced by Hurricane Maria, Dominicans living in the Bahamas are banding together to provide relief for those in need.“I have cousins right now who are living in their cars because their home is destroyed and
Man shot by police
A MAN is in hospital after he was shot by police during a confrontation on Saturday night.Police said the incident occurred after 8pm when police were patrolling the area of Montrose Avenue and Wulff Road, however police did not give further details.
ROBERTS: Where were PM's tears for other storm victims?
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts said while many Bahamians are concerned about the plight of Dominicans, whose island has been devastated by Hurricane Maria, they also question where were Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis’ tears for
'Potential for privacy to be violated' with bill
THE potential exists for politicians to violate the personal privacy of Bahamians under the Minnis administration’s Interception of Communication Bill, former Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson said Sunday as she encouraged Bahamians to pay clos
Technical Cadet Corps students inducted
MORE than 100 members of the Technical Cadet Corps Programme were inducted during a ceremony at the Bahamas Union of Teachers Hall on Thursday in Grand Bahama.Harcourt Brown, acting permanent secretary in the Office of the Prime Minister, challenged
US woman’s body dumped in bushes
AN ELDERLY American woman was found dead in bushes in north Cat Island Sunday, leading police to launch a homicide investigation into this death, Senior Assistant Commissioner of Police Stephen Dean said.
Woman held after attempting to smuggle drugs into Department of Corrections
A woman is being held by police after she allegedly tried to smuggle drugs into the Bahamas Department of Corrections on Friday.
Bahamas' GDP grows 27.6% to $10.7bn
THE level of Gross Domestic Product in the Bahamas increased by 27.6 per cent from 2012 to now, the National Accounts Section of the Department of Statistics announced Friday.
Ernst & Young performing forensic audit
AT least two senior officials at the Water & Sewage Corporation have been placed on administrative leave while Ernst & Young performs a forensic audit of the organization.
'Communities are turning into cemeteries'
TWO white teddy bears now hang from the tree that Dennis Moss used for his car wash business.
PLP casual hires cost extra $10m
BRENSIL Rolle, Minister of State for the Public Service and National Insurance, said between December 2016 and May 2017, the public purse ballooned by $16,532,738 because of the Christie administration’s hiring of new public service workers during that period.
Watch the film - every agonising, wrenching, awful second. Then give up Eugene's killer
THE hugs and comforting words of Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis and his wife Patricia Minnis couldn’t answer the questions that consumed Kendera Woodside yesterday as she grieved for her son, eight-year-old Eugene, who was killed four days ago.
McAlpine denies prejudice in Dominica comments
WHILE insisting he is neither xenophobic nor racist, Pineridge MP Rev Fredrick McAlpine said he has no regrets about comments he made criticising his own party’s plan to accommodate Dominicans following the destruction Hurricane Maria caused in Domin
Mother’s race against time to raise funds for medicine
THE mother of an eight-year-old boy diagnosed with a rare hereditary condition is again appealing to the public for help in securing the life-saving medication needed to treat her son.
