Show advanced options

Select all Clear all

Story
Tease photo

Florida State league finals cancelled due to Dorian

CHAVEZ Young and the Dunedin Blue Jays were one of the top contenders for a Class-A Advanced title. However, Hurricane Dorian preempted those plans. Florida State League President Ken Carson announced yesterday that the Florida State League final we

Obit

Gertrude Irene McKinney

Gertrude Irene McKinney, 88 a resident of Rock Sound, Eleuthera, deid at her residence on Monday 5th May, 2014. She is survived by a host of family & friends. Graveside service will be held at the Rock Sound Cemetery on …

Story

Time for the bank system to be changed

Re: Article “Why do we put up with these banks?”

Obit

Foster Francis Bethell

A farewell service for the late Foster Francis Bethell, age 81, of Nassau, The Bahamas, who died peacefully in the comfort of his family, on Wednesday, 28th February, 2018, will be held at Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church, Shirley Street, …

Story
Tease photo

Water polo medal haul: Making a splash at Carifta

TEAM Bahamas continues to establish its position as a regional powerhouse in CARIFTA water polo and captured three medals at the event for the second consecutive year.

Story

Accountant joins KRys Global's Bahamian office

Vanice Thomas-Erskine has joined the Bahamas office of KRyS Global, the corporate asset recovery, insolvency, forensic accounting and business advisory specialist.

Story
Tease photo

Club helping to build leaders of the future

THE newest EarlyAct club in the country celebrated its charter night at Xavier’s Lower School.

Story
Tease photo

Electric vehicle 'playing field' uneven through 80% tariff

A BAHAMIAN importer/distributor yesterday urged the new government to use its upcoming Budget to create a 'level playing field' for electrical scooters, telling Tribune Business the existing 80 per cent import tariff made the product "uncompetitive".

Story

Taxis suffer 80% business fall-off

Taxi drivers have seen an 80 percent fall in business as they enter the traditionally slow September period, their union head said yesterday, adding that COVID testing and changed protocols are also to blame.

Story
Tease photo

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.

Story
Tease photo

Another murder pushes 2019 total up to 88

Police were last night on the scene of a homicide in Excellence Estates off Golden Isles Road where an adult male was confirmed dead. This killing brought the murder count for the year up to 88. An increase on last year when, as of October 21, 2018, The Tribune’s records show there were 71 murders up until that point.

Story

80 Bahamians buy into crypto start-up

BAHAMIANS are “eager” to explore cryptocurrency opportunities, a local businessman says, suggesting this was highlighted by 80 locals purchasing tokens from a cryptocurrency start-up’s Australian offering last week.Wayne Johnson, who with Parrish Sim

Story
Tease photo

Henfield shocked to be on loan list

SENATOR Ranard Henfield has been included on a list of people with outstanding delinquent loans to the Education Loan Authority. His name was included alongside 98 others in a notice published in a local newspaper yesterday. “We have not been able

Story

Bahamas near bottom at 40% 'tax capacity'

The Bahamas is currently operating at just 40 per cent of its tax capacity, the Government’s US consultants have warned, ranking this nation near-bottom of 98 countries.

Story
Tease photo

Cabbage Beach access row ‘about property rights, not birthrights’

THE relocation of the dozens of Cabbage Beach vendors upset over the closure of an access point to the popular Paradise Island property is not the responsibility of the landowners but the government, according to Atlantis’ Senior Vice-president of Public Affairs Ed Fields.

Story
Tease photo

Plane used for mail flights to Bahamas has a grisly history

A TURBOPROP plane once used to deliver mail to The Bahamas from Florida has been revealed to have had a grisly history – with political detainees in Argentina having been thrown from the vehicle to their deaths during the country’s 1976-98 military dictatorship.

Story

Kobe-less Lakers hold off Mavs in OT 112-108

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Andrew Bynum had 23 points and 16 rebounds, Pau Gasol made back-to-back three-pointers in overtime, and the Los Angeles Lakers won their fourth straight game without Kobe Bryant, 112-108 over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday. Ramon Sessio

Obit

Bernice Elizabeth Nicey Brown

Bernice Elizabeth Nicey Brown, 88 yrs., a resident of Hepburn Alley & formerly of Mastic Point, North Andros, died at PMH on 4th April, 2014. She is survived by her1 son: Nelson Stockdale,; 2 daughters:Charlotte Williams & Deborah Stockdale; 14 …

Story
Tease photo

Sidney Poitier wins BAFTA award

SIR Sidney Poitier, 88, accepted a lifetime achievement award by video link from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards on Sunday night.

Story

Chippie goes big with birthday bash party

IT is never too late to start something new and the legendary entertainer John “Chippie” Chipman, 88, proved that as he recently hosted his first ever birthday bash on the historic plantation grounds opposite Arawak Cay.