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Higgs projected to be one of top players in the Big 12
SHE entered the Texas Longhorns programme as a heralded freshman and now Lashann Higgs is headed into her senior season projected to be one of the top players in the Big 12 conference.
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EDITORIAL: Something is going to have to change in our attitude to vaccination
THE road out of the COVID crisis was always going to be bumpy and right now it seems we’re being bounced all over the place.
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Hotel union uneasy about U.S. upgrade to travel warning
THE hotel union “is on edge” over the US State Department’s decision to upgrade its travel advisory to level four, warning Americans not to enter The Bahamas.
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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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Second phase of Sweeting’s Cay repairs underway
PHASE Two of the Sweeting’s Cay Home Repair Project is underway to repair 14 homes damaged during Hurricane Dorian two years ago.
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Arawak and Potter's Cay vendors not 100% ready
Not all restaurants at Arawak Cay and Potter’s Cay dock will be re-opening tomorrow as some are still implementing the COVID-19 health and safety protocols mandated by the Government. Rodney Russell, president of the Arawak Cay Conch, Fish, Vegetabl
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'Transformative' COVID leaves retailer targeting overseas expansions
A Bahamian retail entrepreneur says COVID-19’s “transformative” impact has spurred him to look at regional expansion with sales “30 percent off” as his businesses emerge from lockdown.Andrew Wilson, the Quality Business Centre (QBC) proprietor, told
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Employer to still pay for staff COVID tests
A prominent Bahamian merchant yesterday backed away from requiring employees to pay for their own COVID-19 tests and said it will comply with an Act that requires it to foot the bill.
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Forbes: Vaccine coverage must be the priority
THE country’s top infectious disease expert says vaccine coverage in the country needs to be prioritised as less than 40,000 Bahamians have been fully vaccinated and COVID-19 cases surge again.
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D’Aguilar: More visitors every month
TOURISM Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar said yesterday that visitor arrivals to The Bahamas are increasing “every month” after 64,047 non-residents bought travel health visas to the country in April.
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Major resorts ‘back to 60%’ by Christmas
A Cabinet minister yesterday voiced optimism that major resorts will “get back to 60 percent of where they were in 2019” by Christmas, with May’s visitor arrivals forecast to rise to the mid-70,000 range.
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DEREK SMITH: Managing political risk is everyone’s business
IT IS often difficult to predict and manage political risk due to its unpredictable nature and difficulties in measuring it.
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Register for people with Parkinson's disease
KINGDOR National Parkinson Foundation is trying to get assistance from the Ministry of Health to set up a national register for the number of people with Parkinson’s disease. The foundation’s president, Marvis Darling-Hill, explained yesterday at th
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Dorian hits Grand Bahama – 'We are truly in dire straits'
“WE are truly in dire straits,” exclaimed Agriculture Minister Michael Pintard as he and his family watched water gush into their two-storey home in East Grand Bahama.
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Warning as new tropical storm likely to form
PARTS of the country recently devastated by Hurricane Dorian are at risk for more bad weather, as a tropical storm warning was in effect last night for the northwest Bahamas. Yesterday, Chief Meteorological Officer Arnold King said the heavy showers
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Taskforce to tackle oil dumping
A Police task force led by two senior officers has been assigned to deal with any further illegal oil dumping incidents on Grand Bahama following two recent incidents on the island.
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Oil explorer: Just 20% of opponents from the Bahamas
The oil exploration battle further heated up last night after Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) sought to discredit an activist petition by asserting just 20 percent of signatories were local.
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Cat 5 hurricane surge threat to 83% of tourism
The Bahamas must "build back better" following Hurricane Dorian and COVID-19 to boost its competitiveness given that 83 percent of the tourism economy is exposed to Category Five storm surge.
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‘COVID-19 prompted register change’
NATIONAL Security Minister Marvin Dames said yesterday that the COVID-19 pandemic forced the Minnis administration to move from a register every five years to a continuous register.
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‘Pandemic has delayed courts’
THE COVID-19 pandemic has added more backlogs to the courts, but Chief Justice Brian Moree, QC, said the judiciary is working its way through those cases which have been disrupted since March.
