U.S. steps up testing rule for entry into country
THE United States has announced tightened entry requirements for travellers entering the country, requiring a negative COVID-19 test taken within one day of departure regardless of vaccination status.This begins next week.
Cuban couple ‘don’t qualify for asylum’
A CUBAN couple seeking political asylum in The Bahamas after fleeing their home country for fear of persecution claim immigration officials have discriminated against them because of their nationality.
GB reefs decimated by disease
NINETY percent of coral reefs off Grand Bahama have been devastated by the lethal stony coral tissue loss disease – SCTLD – which threatens to ravage much of The Bahamas’ corals, affecting livelihoods and making the country less safe from storms.
DPP successfully appeals ruling that Rape accused’s VBI was invalid
THE Director of Public Prosecutions has been successful in appealing a Supreme Court judge’s ruling that stated that a rape accused’s voluntary bill of indictment was invalid as it was signed by a non-Bahamian prosecutor who cannot practice at the Bahamas Bar.
27-year-old is man charged with murder
A 27-year-old man was charged in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday with murder.
Drowning in Eight Mile Rock
GRAND Bahama Police are investigating a drowning that occurred this week in Eight Mile Rock.
Promotions suspended? Not for some at WSC
ALTHOUGH the Davis administration initially said it would suspend staff promotions given under the previous government, the incoming Water and Sewerage chairman has admitted promotions have been recently given to certain staff.
Private companies to take on govt workers
MORE than 40 people who were being paid by the government but could not be placed because of a lack of vacancies in the public sector will be engaged by private companies.
PAHO: Don’t panic over Omicron strain
PAN American Health Organisation officials have urged countries in the region to not panic over the new Omicron strain but instead to focus efforts on redoubling virus surveillance and expanding vaccine coverage in view of the new threat.
Six more confirmed deaths from COVID
THE COVID-19 death toll has risen by six after several unclassified deaths were added to this category on Tuesday.
Pintard: We won’t be spoken to like children
MARCO City MP Michael Pintard was adamant yesterday that the Official Opposition would not be spoken to like children amid a lengthy back and forth with government members of Parliament.
Plans in the works for new Post Office home
TRANSPORT and Housing Minister Jobeth Coleby-Davis told Parliament yesterday there were plans in the works for a permanent home to house the General Post Office.
Mother of former US Ambassador shot dead at Beverley Hills home
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs Fred Mitchell has sent condolences on behalf of Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis and the government regarding the shooting death of the mother of a former US Ambassador to The Bahamas.
Pinder tables citizenship proof
CENTRAL and South Abaco MP John Pinder II yesterday tabled a certificate confirming the loss of his United States citizenship, which was approved more than a month before the September general election.
