Latest Sports
Junior golfers capture eight division titles at inaugural 1 comment
Legacy shutout Long Island 9-0
Empire Sports Medicine Series: When training becomes too much
Latest Business
Auto dealers chief: ‘Nice to avoid confusion’ over titles 1 comment
Royal Caribbean closes$30m Xanadu purchase 1 comment
Florida jet ski operator hits out over US alert
Letters to the Editor
LETTERS: Call to action over plans for Eleuthera investment 8 comments
By-election has Marco City vibes 2 comments
Opinion
Bahamas must prepare next generation of entrepreneurs
America’s Got Talent behind the scenes: what happens after a contestant is sent home?
Latest stories
Court revives constitutional case over Jean-Rony Charles
THE Privy Council has reopened the landmark constitutional fight over Jean-Rony Jean Charles’ detention and expulsion to Haiti, sending the case back to the Supreme Court even though the Bahamas-born man was murdered before the courts could resolve whether the government violated his rights.
Abaco man killed in ambush near controversial bar
GUNMEN ambushed and killed a 32-year-old Abaco man near a Dundas Town nightclub early yesterday, reigniting residents’ demands for the business to be shut down after months of complaints about noise, safety and its location in the middle of a residential community.
Teen faces long recovery after severe e-bike crash
A 14-year-old CW Saunders student remains hospitalised four months after suffering traumatic brain injuries in a collision involving his new electric bicycle and a Jeep, as doctors begin discussing rehabilitation options and his family prepares for the possibility of long-term home care.
GB attorneys accuse DPP of stalling criminal cases
TWO Grand Bahama lawyers have accused the Department of Public Prosecutions’ Grand Bahama office of allowing criminal cases to stall, saying staff shortages are fuelling repeated adjournments, delaying trials and forcing some matters to be set as far away as 2032.
Prosecutors seek delay for drug suspect’s bail bid
Prosecutors have asked for a one day delay for Bahamian drug trafficker Jonathan Eric Gardiner’s next court appearance to give him time to seek bail.
Daughter demands action after dogs maul her father
A 66-year-old Kemp Road man who was mauled by a pack of dogs survived the attack and plans to file a police complaint, according to his daughter, who said the animals have terrorised other residents and should be removed from the community.
MP warns of ‘health hazard’at High Rock community clinic
TWENTY patients who visited the High Rock Clinic on Monday could not get medication at the facility, East Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson said yesterday, as he accused the government of allowing conditions at the community clinic to deteriorate into a “health hazard”.
Fitzgerald pledges focuson consumer protection
ECONOMIC Affairs Minister Jerome Fitzgerald yesterday pledged to make affordability and consumer protection a central focus of his ministry as cost-of-living pressures continue to weigh on Bahamian households.
Pintard calls for televised PAC meetings
OPPOSITION Leader Michael Pintard has again asked House Speaker Patricia Deveaux to open Public Accounts Committee hearings to the public and broadcast them on the Parliamentary Channel, arguing that there is “no acceptable reason” to keep the committee’s scrutiny of public spending from public view.
Mother of missing woman says investigation is ‘not over’
NEARLY eight weeks after Lynette Hooker vanished in waters off Abaco, her mother said she remains convinced the investigation is not over, even after a recent United States Coast Guard search failed to recover her daughter’s remains.
PM confirms investigation into crash involving drug suspect
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said he has been advised that aviation authorities are investigating the Election Day plane crash involving convicted drug trafficker Eric Gardiner, including whether it had valid certification to fly.
Halkitis cannot explain PLP names on public vouchers
FINANCE Minister Michael Halkitis could not explain why more than $200,000 in publicly funded gift vouchers distributed in Abaco before the general election carried the names of PLP candidates and officials, even as he defended the payments as part of a long-running government relief programme.
