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BISX adds seven more fund listings

The Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX) yesterday said it has added seven new listings to its investment funds roster.

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NESBITT EMERGES AS LEADER IN FIRST YEAR WITH NEW CLUB

AFTER several delays due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Brazil’s Novo Basquete Brasil finally opened its 2020-21 season and David Nesbitt has emerged as a leader in his first year with a new club.

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Durant powers Thunder past Heat 105-94

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- Kevin Durant scored 17 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter, Russell Westbrook added 27 points and 11 assists, and the Oklahoma City Thunder rallied from a 13-point deficit to beat the Miami Heat 105-94 last night in Game 1 of the N

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Undefeated Hurricanes power on with Whylly

The Holland College Hurricanes are No 1 ranked team in the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association the poll powered by Roosevelt Whylly who continues to be one of the league’s most dominant players.

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Men's junior national team set for 2020 FIBA Tournament of the Americas

THE final list of eight teams is all set and the Bahamas men’s junior national team now knows the full group of teams it will compete alongside at the 2020 FIBA Tournament of the Americas.The date and location of the tournament have yet to be announc

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Tyler scores 46 at the Stars and Stripes Showcase

BAHAMAS junior national basketball team standout Tyler Pinder is turning heads in the world of high school basketball recruitment.

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Bahamian players in NCAA action

By RENALDO DORSETT

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Minister: more residential care facilities are needed

MORE residential care facilities are needed for an ever-expanding population, says Minister of Social Services and Community Development Melanie Griffin.

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FACE TO FACE: Boston Blackie’s final count

Leonard Joseph ‘Boston Blackie’ Miller spent his last Father’s Day on Earth, this Sunday past. His life and legacy is one of a nation builder in athletics in The Bahamas, and mentor to many.

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INSIGHT: The good, the bad and the ugly - A dangerous mix of tourism and crime

For generations the relationship between country's leaders and its inhabitants have straddled a Cartesian dualism, in a sense that both politician and voter interact within a single socio-economic reality from competing foundations.

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No severance for 2,026 terminated Baha Mar staffers

The 2,026 terminated Baha Mar employees will not receive due severance pay and all benefits owed to them, amid increasing uncertainty over the $3.5 billion project’s fate come November 2.

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Sears: It’s delegates that count, not PM's view

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leader hopeful Alfred Sears, QC, said yesterday he is not concerned about Prime Minister Perry Christie’s recent dismissal of him as a potential threat. “It’s not what the prime minister says, it’s what the delegates determine, and how they vote,” he calmly stated.

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1,500 given vaccine in first few days

MORE than 1,500 people have received their first shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine since the country’s national vaccination programme was launched last week.

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48 hours to go until plastics ban

WITH about 48 hours until the government’s single use plastics ban comes into effect, major companies in New Providence are still in the process of making final preparations for the fast approaching January 1 deadline.

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Moody’s warn COVID impact will remain beyond 2024

Bahamian economic output will not recover to pre-COVID-19 levels "until after 2024", Moody's has warned, in a stark illustration of the economic devastation unleashed by the pandemic.

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‘Get Freeport back to work’

A former Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) in-house attorney yesterday urged the Government to renew Freeport’s expiring tax incentives immediately, arguing: “Let’s get the island back to work.”

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TOUGH CALL: Another set of islands another set of solutions

KIRKWALL, Orkney – Visiting this remote group of islands off Scotland’s northeast coast recently, I was struck by some remarkable similarities to the Bahamas.

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'Other crime down' but murder rate 16% up on last year

STATE Minister for National Security Keith Bell and Attorney General Allyson Maynard Gibson championed the Christie administration’s efforts to fight crime yesterday even as the murder rate for 2015 outpaced last year’s figures.

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Call to fix deficiencies in public health care system

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net DEFICIENCIES within the public health care system need to be fixed first before any consideration is given to a 'national health insurance scheme,' a doctor telling Tribune Business

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Andy Knowles narrowly misses Masters short course 400m world record

ANDY Knowles attempted the Short Course metres world record in Masters swimming for his age group in late December last year.