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Student athletes shine at NAIA, Junior College level
BAHAMIAN student athletes have excelled this season at various levels of collegiate basketball, highlighted by recent performances at the NAIA and Junior College level.
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FRONT PORCH: Wishful thinking won’t be enough - there needs to be a clear strategy
THE COVID-19 pandemic continues to test the character, tenacity and imagination of individuals and countries. Some countries are faring better, others worse, for a variety of reasons. How is The Bahamas faring on a number of fronts?
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IMF restructure?: ‘Not on my watch’
A Cabinet minister yesterday pledged “not on my watch” after a noted Caribbean economist again forecast The Bahamas will need an “IMF restructure” with GDP still below pre-COVID at end-2023.
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Bahamian entry changes ‘more alarming’ than CDC
Bahamian tourism operators yesterday shrugged off the latest downgrade by US health authorities, arguing that constant changes in this nation’s COVID protocols are “more alarming” to visitors.
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Coleby set for United Arab Emirates National Basketball League
DWIGHT Coleby joined his third club of the 2021- 22 season while several other Bahamian frontcourt players had season high performances for their respective clubs.
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McPhee-McCuin and Ole Miss Rebels back in win column
YOLETT McPhee-McCuin’s Ole Miss Rebels have rebounded from their lone Southeastern Conference loss of the season with a pair of dominant performances, including a milestone win over an in-state rival.
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University partners in fight against gender violence
UNIVERSITY of The Bahamas has taken a firm stance against gender-based violence as it partners with the Bahamas Crisis Centre and Rotary Bahamas in a bold new social awareness campaign.
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Plea agreements bring high rate of convictions
THE Director of Public Prosecutions Office secured a high conviction rate of 85 percent in 2021 while its use of plea agreements recovered after COVID-19 caused disruption in 2020, according to Director of Public Prosecutions Garvin Gaskin.
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Bad weather cancels as many cruise calls as COVID’s Omicron
Nassau Cruise Port’s top executive yesterday said it has lost more vessel calls to bad weather than the COVID Omicron variant with berth bookings “very solid” for the remainder of 2022.
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Dorian rebuild in question for 98% on tax break loss
Some 98 percent of business and home owners in Dorian-devastated Abaco say reinstating 10 percent VAT on construction services will “significantly influence” whether they rebuild or not.
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Around town
Sort of around town... the big McDonald protest at their Oakes Field branch seems to be all over as the line up of cars to their drive through lane certainly confirmed that.
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$1.1m donation by FTX to benefit agriculture
FTX Digital Markets announced a $1.1m donation to the newly created non-government, not-for-profit, Agricultural Development Committee.
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Omicron ‘pushes back’ pre-COVID for tourism
Tourism’s hoped-for return to 2019 business volumes this year has been “pushed back” several months by Omicron with Internet searches for The Bahamas now “half” of pre-COVID levels.
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More than 600 nominees for local government vote
MORE than 600 people have nominated for local government positions before the January 27 elections.
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Southwest Tennis Club’s Doubles Challenge hits Flamingo Gardens
OVER the past few weeks, Michael Butler has been bringing some top notch tennis competition to the community of Flamingo Gardens with his Southwest Tennis Club.
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Top official hopes surge is slowing down
THE country recorded 2,489 cases of COVID-19 in the first clinically monitored week of 2022, according to Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Phillip Swann.
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Ollen Smith looks to get Bahamian prospects in Canada prep basketball
Ollen Smith plans to use his platform at the coaching level to help facilitate the transition for Bahamian prospects to the constantly developing Canadian prep basketball scene.
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Jonquel Jones has double double, Foxes 11-0 in Euro League
JONQUEL Jones and her UMMC Ekaterinburg Foxes returned to FIBA Women’s EuroLeague play for the first time in nearly a month and remained just as dominant as the last time they took the floor.
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Shavaul Butters makes NCAA Division I debut
SHAVAUL Butters made his long awaited NCAA Division I basketball debut with the Texas Rio Grande Valley after injuries derailed the start of his collegiate career.
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Digital banking can’t be ‘rammed down throats’
A senior banker yesterday said the industry must adopt the “Mary Poppins with medicine” approach in encouraging more Bahamians and businesses to switch to digital transactions.