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‘Ride For Reine’ Trail-a-thon a success
TWENTY young riders mounted up and hit the trails with enthusiasm this past Sunday as a part of the “Ride For Reine” Trail-a-thon to raise funds on behalf of Reine Pagliaro.
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EDITORIAL: The devil’s in the detail for the economy
IT can be easy to get lost in the big numbers when it comes to the economy, but the simple fact is this – we have more money going out than we have coming in.
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INSIGHT: Election fever is ablaze as the government panders to the “Hate-The-Haitian Lynch Mob”
THE bulldozers have been rolling in Abaco. When the dust settles and night descends, several families were left out in the rain with nothing but the clothes on their backs and a few garbage bags containing what meagre possessions they managed to rescue from the ruin of their homes.
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‘Walk and chew gum’: Subsidies, debt cost $938m
The Bahamas “must walk and chew gum” on its fiscal and economic revival, a leading banker has warned, with $938.5m - one third of government spending - taken up by debt and subsidy costs.
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Ayton and Suns tie series 2-2
Deandre Ayton had his fourth consecutive double double in the 2021 NBA playoffs and his Phoenix Suns evened their best-of-seven round one series against the Los Angeles Lakers.
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Jones’ double double streak ends at six
JONQUEL Jones’ double double streak ended at six games and her Connecticut Sun loss their second game of the season.
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DIANE PHILLIPS: This isn’t the first time we’ve had to get tough to beat a disease
WHEN the first local cases of COVID-19 were reported in March last year, The Bahamas headed by a medically trained Prime Minister, got tough.
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‘Very confident’ of 80% rebound by mid-2022
The Ministry of Finance’s top official yesterday predicted the Bahamian economy will regain 80 percent of its pre-COVID capacity by June 2022 with key taxes forecast to rise by a similar magnitude.
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Man ‘beat me and held knife to my throat’
A WOMAN yesterday testified that a man brutally beat her before holding a knife to her throat during a domestic dispute earlier this year.
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STATESIDE: Is the day of reckoning finally approaching for The Donald?
It’s often said that you’re not paranoid if they’re really out to get you. And a lot of talented, determined people are really out to get Donald Trump.
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FRONT PORCH: The Rev Dr Colin Archer: Finding God in All Things
Last week, the Rev Dr Colin Archer offered a grace-filled sermon entitled, “A Christian Scientific Approach to the COVID-19 Pandemic”, capturing the attention of the nation in a video that expressed the essence of his spirituality.
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Ayton: We still have each other’s backs
DEANDRE Ayton continues to post historic shooting numbers in the NBA playoffs thus far, but his Phoenix Suns faltered down the stretch in game two as the defending champions evened their round one series.
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Season in the sun as Jones making early challenge for MVP
THE Connecticut Sun lost their first game of the 2021 WNBA season, but Jonquel Jones delivered another standout performance that has her mentioned by many pundits in their early projections for league MVP.
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Plaudits just keep coming for Daunte Stuart
DAUNTE Stuart received conference wide recognition for his standout 2021 regular season.
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Riley rattles on to the regionals
CAMERON Riley and the Florida A and M Rattlers concluded their historic season with the programme’s first appearance at the NCAA Regionals.
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‘Up to 90%’ of BPL staff in Cat Island test positive
THE president of Bahamas Electrical Workers Union has confirmed that up to 90 percent of Bahamas Power and Light staff on Cat Island have tested positive for COVID-19.
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New homes handed over to Sweeting’s Cay residents
NINE newly-built homes were turned over to residents in Sweeting’s Cay during a key handover ceremony last week.
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VIRUS SPREADING IN YOUNG PEOPLE: Govt lockdowns begin in outbreak islands as change seen in spread
NINE confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a single day on Andros and a COVID-19 positivity rate of 58 percent in Cat Island helped push the government to implement a two-week lockdown of those islands which began at 8pm yesterday.
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Pollution on our roads
A quick look at “About Nassau Container Port” lists all of the key dates and time frames of how shipping was relocated from the Downtown Waterfront to the Container Port. A key element of that move is identified following. 1990s-2011.