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'Buddy' becomes fastest player in NBA history to reach 800 career 3s
The crowd at the Golden One Center in Sacramento, California, exploded with chants of “Buddy! Buddy” as Buddy Hield put on an historic shooting performance and reached another NBA milestone from three-point range. Hield shot 9-10 from beyond the arc
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Bain still setting the pace at Lumberjacks
Months after he garnered the attention of the college basketball world and brought awareness to The Bahamas’ post Dorian restoration efforts with his late game heroics, Nathan Bain continues to be a leading playmaker for the Stephen F Austin Lumberja
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Eva Regina Thompson
Funeral service for Eva Regina Thompson, age 89 of #16 Palm Avenue, will be held on Saturday, February 8, 2020 at 10:45 a.m. at Our Lady of the Holy Souls Roman Catholic Church, Deveaux Street. Officiating will be Fr. Jonathan …
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Harold Ernest Clarke
Funeral Service for Harold Ernest Clarke, age 91 of Rosalind St., Chippingham and formerly of Ramsey, Exuma and Rock Sound, Eleuthera who died on Saturday, January 11th, 2020 will be held on Saturday, February 8th, 2020 at 2 p.m. at …
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Past Grand Exalted Ruler Sidney Bernard Young
Memorial Service for Past Grand Exalted Ruler Sidney Bernard Young age 89 of Prince Charles Drive , will be held (today) Thursday February 06,2020 at 7:30 p.m. at Wesley Methodist Church , Malcolm Road ,Nassau ,The Bahamas. Funeral Service for …
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Bank: 'No truth' to lay-off, closure talk
A Bahamas-based financial services provider yesterday said it plans to hire extra staff within the next few months as its restructuring nears an end. Marco Netzer, Private Investment Bank’s vice chairman, dismissed financial services industry talk t
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Watch for fake news
The Bahamas’ very own Muhammadan apologist, The Graduate, has fallen into the same egregious error as former US President George W Bush, when he mischaracterised Islam, the second largest religion in the world, as a religion of peace.
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LIFE LINES: Technology, like medicine, has side effects
Technology – a blessing and sometimes a curse. The worldwide web, the internet and a plethora of social media are firmly entrenched in our daily lives. There is now a generation which knows nothing of a life without social media. In 1990/91 the worldwide web was born, and although universal usage is a mere 20 or so years old and still growing exponentially, we rarely stop to think about a downside and yet there are significant signs that there are many relating to our emotional well-being and personal relationships.
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How safe are your cosmetics?
On average a woman uses about 12 to 25 different cosmetics a day and applies more than 200 chemicals to her body in the process.
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DRILLING ON OFFSHORE PLATFORM IMMINENT
A Bahamas-based oil explorer yesterday said it is “ready to deliver” on a 14 year-old promise after confirming it will drill its first exploratory well in Bahamian waters in April 2020.
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Mingoes hold off fightback
The University of the Bahamas Mingoes led the Leno Regulators by as much as 28 points, but in the fourth quarter of their New Providence Basketball Association’s division one match-up on Friday night, UB almost let the Regulators back in the game.
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Renewable fear over BPL bond
A union leader has voiced fears that Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) will be unable to meet repayments on its $580m bond as its largest, wealthiest customers race to adopt renewable energy.
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DIANE PHILLIPS: How many could have survived Dorian if they’d known how to swim?
The enormous economic toll of Hurricane Dorian continues to shake The Bahamas with Finance Minister Peter Turnquest this week confirming we were borrowing hundreds of millions more to help rebuild our devastated islands.
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Anthony Withfield Gardiner
Funeral service for the late Anthony Withfield Gardiner age 88 years of Soldier Road and formerly of Bootle Creek, Turks & Caicos Island will be held on Saturday, February 1st, 2020 at 11:00 A.M. at Abundant Life Church, Abundant Life …
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Retired Reserved Police R75 Cardinal Rodney York Stubbs
Funeral service for Retired Reserved Police R75 Cardinal Rodney York Stubbs, 85 a resident of Spring Terrace East, Gleniston Gardens & formerly of Dumfries, Cat Island, will be held at St. Barnabas Anglican Church, Wulff & Baillou Hill Roads, on …
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Sybreon Livingstone Kelly
Funeral service for Sybreon Livingstone Kelly, 79 a resident of Lewis Street West, will be held at St. Agnes Anglican Church, Baillou Hill Road, on Friday, January 31, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. Officiating will be Archdeacon Keith N. Cartwright, assisted …
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Lloyd launches new curriculum guides
EDUCATION Minister Jeffrey Lloyd yesterday announced his ministry has revised curriculum guides for primary and high schools to ensure students are equipped with the practical skills they need to be successful in the 21st century.Speaking at a press
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Bahamas in Fintech 'first for Caribbean'
Corporate loan rejection rates in The Bahamas are double those in other Caribbean countries, it has been revealed, resulting in financial technology (Fintech) being deployed to boost capital access. An Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) paper on
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Athletes qualify for the Carifta games
SIX athletes attained the qualifying standard for the 2020 CARIFTA Games to highlight the third annual DTSP Wolf Pack/Rose Cleare Track Classic on Saturday at the Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium. Leading the way was Anthaya Charlton in the
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Kristian Robinson and Jazz Chisholm among MLB's Top 100 Prospects
A PAIR of Bahamian minor leaguers were listed among the Top 100 Prospects when MLB Pipeline unveiled its first rankings for the upcoming 2020 season. Kristian Robinson of the Arizona Diamondbacks was listed at No. 43 while Jazz Chisholm of the Miami
