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Kai Jones finds new home with LA Clippers
BAHAMIAN big man Kai Jones will now take his talents from the East Coast to the West Coast after being signed to a multi-year deal by the Los Angeles Clippers on Saturday ahead of their upcoming postseason run.
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CB Giants tie series, YES Giants go up 2-0 in NPBA Championship
THE New Providence Basketball Association (NPBA) division one and two championships are in full swing and action is already starting to heat up.
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New Era Gym Rats win GBABA title
THE Grand Bahama Amateur Basketball Association completed their best-of-five championship series at the St George’s Gymnasium on Saturday night.
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Lucozade Sprint Classic brings out the cyclists
THE New Providence Cycling Association hosted its Race Series 2024 with the Lucozade Sprint Classic on Sunday around the western end of New Providence.
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PM: Bahamas must avoid ‘pitfalls of past’ over FATF
The Bahamas must “avoid stumbling into the pitfalls of the past” by upholding regulatory standards to maintain its perfect rating on anti-financial crime compliance, the Prime Minister says.
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Bahamian group teams for growth in agriculture
A regional agriculture body has teamed with the Agricultural Development Organisation (ADO) of The Bahamas to promote the industry’s sustainable development in this nation.
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Gov’t ‘100% locked in’ to growing agriculture
The Prime Minister says agriculture holds “vast untapped potential” with The Bahamas’ annual $1bn food import presenting “million dollar opportunities” for local farmers to exploit.
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BAMSI crops badly hit by Andros fire
THE Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Science Institute (BAMSI) said 75 per cent of its mangoes, 40 per cent of livestock pastures and 30 bee hives were destroyed when a fire ripped through forests this month.
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PM on public disclosures: 'I made my deadline'
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis was tightlipped today over whether members of the governing party filed their public disclosures on or before the March 1 deadline as mandated under the Public Disclosure Act.
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Andros fire rages on
FIRE services continued to manage the massive Andros forest fire after additional fire fighters from New Providence arrived on the island to assist.
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Bahamas' financial services sector 'world class' ahead of FATF assessment
PRIME Minister Philip Davis trumpeted The Bahamas’ “world-class” financial services sector as the country prepares for another mutual evaluation assessment by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) “on the horizon”.
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Man sentenced to four months for marijuana possession
A MAN was sentenced to four months in prison on Friday after he admitted to the possession of 33 grams of marijuana last week.
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Man charged in Golden Isles robbery and sexual assault
A MAN was imprisoned on Friday after he allegedly robbed and sexually assaulted a woman at gunpoint near Golden Isles Road earlier this month.
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One in four women victims of violence
A SIGNIFICANT Gender-Based Violence study found that one in four women in The Bahamas had suffered physical or sexual violence in their life, with survivors lamenting the challenges with accessing healthcare, law enforcement and social services in the country.
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COP: murders up 27 percent over last year
POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander provided statistics yesterday showing murders are up 27 percent, while armed robberies have declined by 43 percent.
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Football great, actor, and accused murderer OJ Simpson dead at 76
OJ SIMPSON, who has died aged 76, was a football star who went on to become an actor – but who was then the centre of the “trial of the century” for the murder of his wife and her friend in 1994.
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28 families receive keys to new home as Bell says govt delivering on promises
TWENTY-eight families received keys to their new homes in the Renaissance at Carmichael Subdivision yesterday, with Housing and Urban Renewal Minister Keith Bell revealing that an additional 23 homes will be completed in six weeks.
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PI resort, development escape tax debt sell-off
A Paradise Island resort and Long Island investment project are among those that have escaped being sold-off by the Government through settling their alleged real property tax delinquency.
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Bank’s Out Island sites ‘a philanthropic service’
Bank of The Bahamas’ top executive yesterday described its Family Island presence as an act of “philanthropy” amid complaints that woes at its branch have left south Eleuthera in “a dire situation”.
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Adapt to tourist profile so we ‘blow past’ 2019
Family Island hotels must adapt to a visitor demographic profile that has been flipped upside down over the past decade if they want to “blow past” pre-COVID numbers, a top tourism official is warning.