Fitzgerald: We’ve done all we can to end school violence
EDUCATION Minister Jerome Fitzgerald yesterday said the onus for recent violent incidents on school campuses must fall on the wider society, further lamenting that officials have done everything they can to stop school violence.
‘Shameful that Halkitis cannot explain where VAT has gone’
FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday said it is “shameful” that after two hours on the radio airwaves, Minister of State for Finance Michael Halkitis could not explain to the Bahamian people “where the VAT money gone”.
Two men shot dead in Freeport
TWO MEN have died and police have a suspect in custody after a shooting incident in the early hours of Wednesday in Freeport, Grand Bahama.
Housebreaking suspects arrested after chase
TWO suspected housebreakers were arrested after they allegedly led police on a high-speed chase that ended in South Beach.
Man in hospital after drive-by shooting
A MAN is in hospital after he was wounded during a drive by shooting after 4pm on Tuesday.
Minnis to unveil ‘change team’ in Grand Bahama
FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis will unveil his party’s economic recovery plan for Grand Bahama and introduce its “change team” at a mass rally next week in Grand Bahama.
PLP chairman: Picking Pintard is poor leadership
BRADLEY Roberts has called the Free National Movement’s ratification of former Chairman and Senator Michael Pintard “another demonstration of the poor leadership and judgment” of FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis.
Drug suspect remanded
A MAN was remanded to prison yesterday after he was arraigned on a charge of possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply.
Court hearing in armed raid case
A MAN awaiting trial for armed robbery appeared in the Supreme Court yesterday for a case management hearing.
Zonta Club seeks to raise funds for Ranfurly Home
THE Zonta Club of New Providence is looking to raise much-needed funds to assist in the construction of the country’s first transition home at the Ranfurly Home for Children.
Call for electoral system to be more transparent, more egalitarian
A GROUP of civil society organisations are calling on Bahamians to help design an electoral system that is “less cumbersome, more transparent, more fair and more egalitarian” than the one the country currently has.
The Bahamas to host Inter-American education meeting
EDUCATION officials yesterday announced plans to host the ninth Inter-American Meeting of Ministers of Education in conjunction with Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Father found guilty of abetment of murder
COGEN Newbold Sr, of Freeport, was found guilty of abetment to murder in the Supreme Court in Grand Bahama yesterday.
25 trained clinical nurses to work in Grand Bahama
GRAND Bahama Minister Dr Michael Darville applauded a new initiative that recently produced 25 trained clinical nurses, graduates of a programme that is the collaboration of the Public Hospitals Authority, the University of The Bahamas and the Ministry for Grand Bahama.
UPDATED WITH VIDEO: Police hunt for arsonist after firebomb thrown at court
POLICE are on the hunt for a man they suspect threw an explosive device into the South Street Magistrate’s Court complex early yesterday morning “in an attempt to burn it down”.
