Show advanced options

Select all Clear all

Story

Knights and the Rattlers top senior standings

THE senior school segment of the GSSSA Track and Field Championship meet concludes today with a deadlocked tie atop the standings setting the stage for the final day of competition.The defending champion CR Walker Knights and CI Gibson Rattlers both

Story

NASSAU DARTS ASSOCIATION - TEAM STANDINGS/MATCHUPS OPEN SEASON SCHEDULE (FEB. 8-12)

B-52's 5 -v- Panama Jack Bullshooters 7 B-52's- (4 Tons)- Doubles: Eric Eichmann Triples: Gilbert Gray 1T Singles: Gilbert Gray 40+, Eric Eichmann 32, Jeff Mitchell 40+, 1T (Alan Turnball 2T ) Bullshooters- (10 Tons)-Doubles: Timmy Bethel 1T, Davin

Story

Airport gateway is 99% complete

The Airport Gateway Project is 99 per cent complete, the Minister of Works said yesterday, with more than $69 million of its $71 million budget having been spent to date.

Photo
Story
Tease photo

Jones named honourable mention All-American

GEORGE Washington women’s basketball junior forward Jonquel Jones was named an honourable mention All-American by The Associated Press yesterday.

Story
Tease photo

Pompey Square hosts National Testing Day

"Get Tested Bey" is the message to the public as part of the 12th annual National Testing Day - held in Pompey Square on Friday.

Story
Tease photo

$9.4m increase 'no evidence' of moral hazard on mortgages

A leading banker believes there is “no evidence” to show the almost-$10 million May increase in mortgages between 31-90 days in arrears was produced by moral hazard relating to the political parties’ relief plans, adding that data indicates the bad credit situation is “bottoming out”.

Story
Tease photo

Bahamas Chess National Championship heading for an exciting showdown

THE 2023 Bahamas Chess National Championship is heading for an exciting showdown as competitors try to stop NM Valentine Cox from attaining a sweep of the big event.

Story

The FNM and our money

Debate on Supplementary Budget through May, 2022… yet again input of so many of the MPs, clearly shows their personal lack of information and facts and really reality.

Photo
Story

EDITORIAL: Clear communication must be the lesson

IN the wake of the resignation of Health Minister Dr Duane Sands, there were clear lessons to be learned. The slow revelation of more information about how a COVID-19 positive passenger got on board a repatriation flight shows that some skipped those lessons.

Story
Tease photo

BPL announces plan to resume disconnections

BAHAMAS Power and Light announced yesterday that it will immediately resume disconnection of electricity services of residential customers who have $500 or more in arrears for more than 90 days as of April 1. “Any customers with a balance more than

Story
Tease photo

Tributes paid to Doris Bullard at funeral

THE funeral of Doris Bullard, the oldest member of St Joseph’s Catholic Church on Boyd Road, took place yesterday, eight days after she died aged 99.

Photo
Story

Tourism targets 45,000 visitor reopening peak

A Cabinet minister yesterday predicted stopover visitor arrivals will hit a 45,000 post-COVID re-opening peak for March - albeit they remain up to 90 percent down on pre-pandemic levels.

Story

Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships wrap up

THE 2016 Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships closed out at the Ocean Club resort, Paradise Island, on Friday with the Bahamas remaining in the same position they occupied all week in both the men’s Hoerman Cup and the ladies’ George Teale Memorial Cup.

Story
Tease photo

Activists demand 90-day extension to Disney review

Environmental activists yesterday urged the government to extend the consultation over the Lighthouse Point project to 90 days while accusing it of leaving the process “in Disney’s hands”.

Story
Tease photo

Stingers tie series

The Mail Boat Cybots are back to defend their title in the New Providence Basketball Association.

Story
Tease photo

Tourism ‘90% unaffected’ by COVID-19 tightening

Tourism industry executives yesterday voiced optimism that the industry’s recovery will not be impacted by the government’s tightening of COVID restrictions, with one asserting it will be “90 percent unaffected”.

Story

FINCO rejects 90% of Gov’t home applicants

Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) mortgage lending arm rejected 90 per cent of applicants seeking loans to purchase government homes, a Cabinet Minister has revealed.