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Aktion Club of Fort Montagu. - Members of the Aktion Club of Fort Montagu attended the national Training and Leadership Conference in Indianapolis, from June 26-27.

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The nature of beauty

A DRAMATIC, avant garde evening gown that was considered the best depiction of the theme, Beauty by Nature, has won emerging fashion designer Trineil Hanna the coveted Miss Bahamas Organisation’s (MBO) Top Designer Award.

Extradition court case to be heard next year

FIVE men fighting extradition to the United States on drug trafficking charges will have their day in the Supreme Court in January next year.

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  • September 11, 2015
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Fitzgerald accused of being evasive over Rum Cay school repairs

FORMER Ministry of Housing Parliamentary Secretary Brensil Rolle yesterday hit back at Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald, accusing the Marathon MP of being “biggity and evasive” in his defence of the government’s $500,000 allotment to repair the Rum Cay All-Age School.

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30 years in jail for man guilty of woman’s murder

EIGHTEEN months after taking police to the shallow grave of a woman who was missing for two weeks, the man accused of her murder pleaded guilty to the crime in Supreme Court yesterday.

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Bethel: Criticising govt is not an unpatriotic act

FREE National Movement Senator Carl Bethel yesterday denied suggestions that his criticism of the Baha Mar winding up process was unpatriotic, calling Attorney General Allyson Maynard-Gibson’s characterisation of him “disingenuous and false”.

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Haitian migrants detained by US coast guard

TWO Bahamians have been taken into custody by US authorities to face charges of human trafficking in a Florida Court after they were caught trying to smuggle 19 Haitian migrants to Florida.

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Pintard does not dismiss FNM coalition

FREE National Movement Chairman Michael Pintard yesterday hinted that “all forms of a political collaboration” are presently being discussed with persons focused on moving The Bahamas forward.

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Gomez says constituency business has kept him from filing petitions against FNM duo

LEGAL Affairs Minister Damian Gomez yesterday insisted that he was not backing away from his declaration to file Election Court petitions to declare the Long Island and Killarney seats vacant over alleged conflicts of interest.

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Wayne Munroe: why I joined the PLP

ATTORNEY Wayne Munroe, QC, said yesterday he decided to join the Progressive Liberal Party because its “philosophy is more in line” with where he sees The Bahamas going.

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Leadership worry for PLP convention

AS the Progressive Liberal Party’s November convention nears, anxiety is growing among party members and supporters over the uncertainty about who will make a leadership bid, stalwart member and former Cabinet minister George Smith admitted to The Tribune yesterday.

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Man, 35, found hanging from a tree in Coconut Grove

A 35-year-old man was found hanging from a tree in the yard of his Coconut Grove home early on Thursday in what police believe to be a suicide.

Henri becomes eighth tropical storm of the Atlantic season

TROPICAL Storm Henri formed in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday night off Bermuda and is moving slowly north, although forecasters say it currently poses no threat to land.

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Fire rips through take away shop

ROSALEE Davis, owner of Rosalee’s Take Away also known as Dirty’s, said it will take $45,000 and about two months of construction to rebuild her restaurant after it was completely destroyed in a fire last month.

Store owner says social services card has cost him $60,000 in business

A DISGRUNTLED department store owner yesterday accused the government of “discrimination” for allegedly excluding his store from the list of shops to be recognised by the new Social Services pre-paid debit card.

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