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Shockersget 94-88 win over Rockets in NPBA

THE NPBA hosted its final double header before the league took a break from action as attention shifts to the FIBA World Cup Qualifiers and the Hugh Campbell Invitational.The JD’s Seafood Shockers (Division I) and the Aliv Bucket Team (Division II) t

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Regulators sweep defending champions Stingers 102-97

THE New Providence Basketball Association will crown a new champion after Mr Ship It Freight completed a two-game sweep of the defending champions PJ’s Stingers in their best-of-three first round playoffs at AF Adderley Gym last night.

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Operators force deciding game 5

With the game and their season on the line, Keva Johnson powered inside for the winning basket to help the Bommer Gee Operators stave off elimination and force a fifth and deciding game.

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Summer of Thunder: Knights top the Fighting Missionaries 103-92

FOR the third time in the 2014 edition of the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s Summer of Thunder series, a local team has topped a visiting NCAA programme.

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Ayton, Coleby share similar homecoming experiences

THE Bad Boy Mowers 2017 Battle 4 Atlantis featured its traditional field of elite NCAA Division I programmes but it also served as homecoming experiences for DeAndre Ayton and Dwight Coleby.

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Judge: Oil opponents make 'arguable case'

A Supreme Court judge yesterday gave the go-ahead for a legal challenge aiming to halt oil drilling in Bahamian waters after finding activists had made out an "arguable case".

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Gibson’s Huskies, Whylly’s Hurricanes on winning streaks

WINNING streaks for both Qyemah Gibson’s St Mary’s Huskies and Roosevelt Whylly’s Holland College Hurricanes continued in U Sports and Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association basketball respectively.

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Cybots stop Pros 88-77

By BRENT STUBBS

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The singers of Crooked Island

pics in website daily photos, slugged: crooked island Captions Photos, Eric Rose/BIS Photo 0611 CABBAGE HILL, Crooked Island - Ulric H Ferguson Primary School student Demetria Mackey recites "Wonderful Mothers", on June 6 at the Rev EA Thompson Memo

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Sand Dollar rout Zulu Media 96-64, Cyber Tech top Mekaddish Millionaires 82-80

THE New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season action at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Wednesday night.

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Environmentalists say no to Oban plan for oil refinery

A HOST of environmental groups have formed an alliance to appeal to the government to reject moves for offshore drilling and to abandon the planned Oban oil refinery in Grand Bahama.Non-profit organisation Save the Bays (STB), along with the newly f

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Surplus banking liquidity at $1.6bn

Excess liquidity in the Bahamian commercial banking system increased by $271.3 million in the year to end-July 2016, with the new $1.586 billion high illustrating the continuing difficulties in finding suitable borrowers.

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Cybots rally to even series with Shockers

THE Mail Boat Cybots showed why they are the New Providence Basketball Association men’s defending champions.

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WORLD VIEW: We have to work together or be picked off, one by one

REPORTS are wrong in stating that eight Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are on a ‘blacklist’ recently released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over Citizenship by Investment (CBI) and Resident by Investment (RBI) schemes that they operate.

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World View: Competition for benefits of second citizenship is global

Citizenship by Investment Programmes (CIPs) in the Caribbean have been the subject of much criticism, even though the financial and economic benefits of the programmes are undeniable. These programmes are operated by Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Gr

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NPBA PLAYOFFS: Eagles Nest, Rockets in the win column

THE Leno Eagles Nest stunned the Aliv Bucket and the Discount Distributors Rockets knocked off the Leno Regulators as the New Providence Basketball Association continued its first round playoffs at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Wednesday night.

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Jonquel Jones named WNBA Eastern Player of the Week

JONQUEL Jones of the Connecticut Sun and Candace Parker of the Los Angeles Sparks were yesterday named the WNBA’s Eastern and Western Conference Players of the Week respectively, for games played June 12-18.

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Record-breaking swimmer leaves hospital for a second time

AUSTRALIAN ultra-marathon swimmer Chloe McCardel was yesterday discharged from hospital in Nassau for a second time after reportedly being re-admitted at the weekend due to “weeping” wounds resulting from her world record swim from the southern tip of Eleuthera to New Providence last week.

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EDITORIAL: Another heart-stopper approaches for Mrs May

Since the British people voted by a narrow margin in the 2016 referendum to leave the European Union, the protracted negotiations have produced numerous twists and turns, setbacks, deadlines and disagreements.