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‘Good morning, I’m Ed Bethel’
“Silence! Silence? In this house”,
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NPBA sets the stage for championship
WITH all two game sweeps of their best-of-three semifinal series over the weekend at the AF Adderley Gymnasium, the stage is now set for the New Providence Basketball Association’s best-of-five championship series in both the men’s division one and II.
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Bahamian players in U Sports spotlight
IT was an active weekend for Bahamian basketball players at Canada’s top-tiered U Sports level and in the Canadian College Athletic Association.Azaro Roker has thrived in a more prominent role early in the season for the St FX X-Men.Roker stuffed the
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Baptist Sports Council 2012 Softball Classic regular season action
WHILE their co-ed team remained undefeated, Golden Gates Native Baptist dropped their first men’s game as newcomer Anointed To Reign Ministry pulled off the upset to highlight the Baptist Sports Council’s 2012 Softball Classic regular season action at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Saturday.
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INSIGHT: The real reasons behind ‘passports for sale’
On January 1, “60 minutes”, an investigative programme aired by the US television company, CBS Corporation, ran a segment on “Citizenship by Investment Programmes” (CIP) that are operated by several countries around the world.
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WORLD VIEW: We have to work together or be picked off, one by one
REPORTS are wrong in stating that eight Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries are on a ‘blacklist’ recently released by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over Citizenship by Investment (CBI) and Resident by Investment (RBI) schemes that they operate.
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World View: Competition for benefits of second citizenship is global
Citizenship by Investment Programmes (CIPs) in the Caribbean have been the subject of much criticism, even though the financial and economic benefits of the programmes are undeniable. These programmes are operated by Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Gr
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Have business owners lost confidence?
LOCAL and foreign investors are probably having more board room sessions about whether this is the right time to invest in this country. So far, the Christie government has done nothing to assure the private sector that they know the direction in which their government’s sails are set.
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FACE TO FACE: From humble beginnings to the NFL
When Edwin A Smith was a little boy growing up in Bain Town in the 1950s, there were great Bahamian athletes making it to the big leagues in baseball or track and field. So, little boys had much to aspire to if they wished to become a professional athlete. But Ed, who spent his afternoons shooting marbles, flying kites, playing stick ball, wrestling, or swimming on Long Wharf beach during the summers, had no idea at the time he would one day make Bahamian history as the first to go pro in an entirely different sport.
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Hubert Leopold Pinder
Hubert Leopold Pinder, 80 years of #216 Treasure Cove, passed away peacefully at his residence on Saturday December 20th, 2014. Left to cherish fond memories are his wife, Diana Pinder (nee Golden); two children, Etoile Pinder and Jonathan Pinder; four …
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Bahamas finishes fourt in Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championships
THE Bahamas finished the 26th Caribbean Amateur Junior Golf Championships in a familiar position on the final standings, according to team executives.
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Sports in brief
THE fourth annual Georgette Rolle Junior Golf Camp is slated to get underway 9am to 2pm today in the Golf Driving Range at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.
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Golden Gates co-ed, Macedonia still undefeated
GOLDEN Gates co-ed and Macedonia men remain undefeated in the Coca-Cola Softball Classic as the Baptist Sports Council completed another week of its short regular season action at the Bankers Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.
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Vance Wadsworth Hunt Major
Funeral Service for Vance Wadsworth Hunt Major, age 81 years, a resident of Sky End Road Eastern Estates , will be held on Friday, October 4th 2013, 10 :00 a.m. at Believers Gospel Chapel, Prince Charles Drive. Officiating will be …
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Winterbotham staffer passes Series 7 exam
Winterbotham staffer passes Series 7 exam The Winterbotham Trust Company's operations administrator, Jessica Thornley-Mitchell (pictured), has passed the Series 7 exam with a grade of 81 per cent after studying with the Nassau-based Securities Training I
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'Spoken from the heart' - Tribute to Edmund Moxey by Sir Arthur Foulkes
GOVERNOR General Sir Arthur Foulkes, in a tribute paid to Edmund Moxey, creator of the Jumbey Village dream, recalled their years in the political trenches together, nourishing a single ambition – the “salvation of a people.”
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More players register for Ed Armbrister Baseball League
WITH an increase in the registration of players, the Ed Armbrister Baseball Camp will revert back to a full-fledged league. According to Michael Butler, one of the organisers, they made the decision to host a league as opposed to a baseball camp bec
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Davis Cup win streak continues
Team captain Marvin Rolle inserted Kevin ‘KJ’ Major Jr into the rotation and the Bahamas continued its winning streak, completing pool B round robin play with a 3-0 sweep over Trinidad & Tobago.
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Kadeem, Mark and Travis top performers among Bahamians
KADEEM Coleby, Mark St Fort and Travis Munnings were several of the top performers among Bahamian basketball players active in their respective programmes over the weekend.
