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DIANE PHILLIPS: There will never be another gingerbread house
THERE will never be another gingerbread house. Not like the ones Graham Bruce created, the magical, whimsical three feet high edible works of art handmade of gingerbread, brown sugar and love, adorned with sparkles, candy, nuts and candy canes, complete with windows that let the light shine through. They were architectural and culinary wonders, those gingerbread houses, days in the making and happy slow hours in the guilty devouring.
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New operating theatre for Rand
A new fully-equipped modular operating theatre donated to the Rand Memorial Hospital by Direct Relief (DR) was officially turned over to the Ministry of Health on Wednesday.
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NPSA post season starts this week
THE New Providence Softball Association closed out its regular season over the weekend and will now get ready for the start of the post season in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Tuesday night.In the much anticipated match-
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Bahamasair 'overstaffed by one-third'
Bahamasair is “overstaffed by about one-third” compared to international aviation industry standards, it was disclosed yesterday, with its payroll and pension scheme also branded “rather costly”.
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Isnord commits to join the Golden Panthers
WILKENSON “Kenny” Isnord brought his recruitment process to an end and will begin his collegiate basketball career in south Florida next fall. Isnord committed to join the Florida International University Golden Panthers men’s basketball programme f
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Isnord looks forward to pivotal senior season
WILKENSON Isnord continues to increase his collegiate basketball recruitment stock headed into his pivotal high school senior season.Isnord continues to field NCAA Division I offers, the latest of which came over the weekend from the University of Bu
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Isnord gets his first high major offer from Virginia Tech Hokies
PREP basketball star Wilkenson “Kenny” Isnord received his first high major offer from an elite Division I programme.Isnord’s summer recruitment continues to accelerate following his performance at the Summer Hoops Festival in Orlando, Florida, last
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SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: My Miami vice - reflections from a road trip
MOST of you thought I was joking when I said I was going to Miami to ensure my Cowboys beat the Dolphins.
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Baha Mar liquidators seek ‘emergency’ $25m
Baha Mar’s joint provisional liquidators yesterday sought Supreme Court approval to borrow $25 million, warning they would have to shut the Melia Nassau Beach Resort if unable to meet an $8.7 million insurance payment falling due on Monday.
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Wind-up delay gives Baha Mar resolution time
The Attorney General yesterday suggested the three-week delay to Baha Mar’s winding-up hearing was intended to give all parties more time to reach a “hoped for” commercial resolution to the $3.5 billion dispute.
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Two sets of Baha Mar guardians just ‘crazy’
The Opposition’s deputy leader believes it “makes no sense” for there to be two different sets of receivers/liquidators looking after Baha Mar, branding the situation as “crazy”.
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'Criminal' wait for Bay Street height decision
The 10-month wait for a government decision on whether to lift downtown Nassau’s height restrictions was yesterday branded “criminal”, a leading realtor saying it was depressing property values and inhibiting investment proposals critical to the area’s revival.
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Contractor chief: PM’s Baha Mar pay pledges ‘don’t mean anything’
The Prime Minister’s repeated promises that Bahamian contractors will be paid for Baha Mar work “doesn’t mean anything to us”, the Bahamian Contractors Association’s (BCA) president said yesterday, adding: “It’s all up in the air.”
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Lynden Pindling said ‘tell the truth’ - that includes Baha Mar
“GET up and get going or you will be gone!” was the swift kick in the pants that the late Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling gave his MPs on the last night of the PLP’s 35th national convention.
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Dingman: ‘Rampant theft’ caused restaurant failure
Jamie Dingman has blamed the collapse of his Nassau restaurant empire on “rampant theft and mismanagement”, and plans to call a former FNM Cabinet minister as a defence witness in his battle against a $1.113 million damages claim.
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Track athlete Lauren turns mentor, coach
SHE had a promising career as a track and field athlete, but after going off to school, Lauren Charlton-Szczygiel has changed her focus and is now giving back to Michigan State University as a mentor and coach.
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Sears shrugs off MP support for PM
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leader-hopeful Alfred Sears yesterday called the paltry level of endorsements from sitting members of Parliament for incumbent leader Prime Minister Perry Christie to stay on as party leader a “distraction”.
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ALICIA WALLACE: No excuse for failing to disclose on time
HERE we are again. It is a familiar place. Government administrations change with some regularity, and many of the practices remain the same.
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Attorney urges Further reform of 'all or nothing' insolvency laws
The Government was yesterday urged to further reform the Bahamas’ “all or nothing” insolvency laws, a leading commercial attorney yesterday describing them as “archaic” and needing to become more “humane”.
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Insolvent broker: $2.76 owed by affiliates 'could alter significantly'
THE sums owed to Owen Bethel's insolvent Montaque Capital Partners by affiliated companies "could differ significantly" from the initial $2.76 million estimate, liquidators for the Bahamian broker/dealer have warned, as they continue to also probe deals linked to Mr Bethel's family.
