Show advanced options

Select all Clear all

Story

Bahamians using renewables ‘without understanding’ them

Bahamians are using key components of renewable energy technology “without understanding where or when or how” it impacts their lives, regulators are asserting.

Story
Tease photo

Bahamas ‘negligent’ in protecting innovators

The Attorney General yesterday admitted The Bahamas has been “negligent” in protecting the innovations of its entrepreneurs by failing to keep pace with intellectual property (IP) safeguards.

Story
Tease photo

Bishop Grant makes closing pitch ahead of vote

Bishop Ricardo Grant pledged to be a fierce advocate and a strong voice that will fight for West Grand Bahama and Bimini.

Story

No Bahamas taxes on Shell’s $1.55bn profits

The case for imposing a corporate income tax was yesterday said to be have been strengthened by revelations that a Shell subsidiary paid not a cent in tax on $1.55bn of profits generated in The Bahamas.

Story
Tease photo

Academic star Camille dies of cancer, aged 19

A 19-year-old Bahamian college student who died from ovarian cancer on Saturday had been determined to finish her education, according to her brother.

Story
Tease photo

‘CHAOS’ AS FERRY SANK, SAYS FAMILY: Grandmother who died in incident ‘was given faulty oxygen tank’

THE granddaughter of the 75-year-old American woman who died when a Blue Lagoon Island ferry teetered last week claimed staff gave her grandmother a faulty oxygen tank that couldn’t be turned on.

Story
Tease photo

REBELS RUN AWAY WITH BATTLE 4 ATLANTIS TITLE: Coach Yo - first Bahamian coach to win the crown - and Ole Miss make history

The University of Mississippi Ole Miss Rebels pulled off a decisive 60-49 win over the University of Michigan Wolverines in the championship round of the third Bad Boy Mowers Battle 4 Atlantis women’s tournament yesterday at the Imperial Arena, Paradise Island.

Story
Tease photo

Baha Mar Hoops takes centre stage

THE 2023 Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo Championships for 10 NCAA division one collegiate women’s teams got started yesterday at the Baha Mar Convention Center with the Georgia Bulldogs, Ohio State Buckeyes and Florida Gators all producing early victories.

Story
Tease photo

Suspect accused of gunning man down on his porch

A MAN is behind bars after he allegedly gunned down a 21-year-old man on his porch in Kennedy Subdivision this spring.

Story

$5 fee for a cent debt

Kindly allow me a little space in your valuable newspaper to inquire if the one cent $0.01 drop or added to your bill has been changed or dropped. I paid a BTC Bill during the month of October 2023 with a balance of $00.56 cent and a payment of $00.55 cents was made and change was given back.

Story
Tease photo

Witness accused of wrong calculations in Gibson trial case

A SENIOR manager of the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) denied a defence attorney’s suggestion yesterday that she made the wrong calculations when estimating the cost of painting WSC tanks.

Story
Tease photo

‘Suspect’s DNA found under victim’s nails’

A DNA analyst testified that Rodrigo Rolle’s DNA was found under Janice Kissinger’s fingernails after the elderly American woman was killed in Cat Island in 2017.

Story

Restaurant entrepreneur targeting six franchisees

A Bahamian entrepreneur yesterday said he is seeking up to six franchisees at $150,000 apiece to expand his restaurant brand throughout this nation.

Story

Potter’s Cay vendors: How was blaze allowed to occur?

All Potter’s Cay Dock vendors were yesterday said to be back in operation apart from the five stalls that were either destroyed or severely damaged by the weekend’s fire.

Story

EDITORIAL: Minnis missing on by-election trail

ON Wednesday, voters go to the polls in West Grand Bahama and Bimini – and each of the major parties has been throwing its political heavyweights at the campaign.

Story
Tease photo

‘Non-controllable’ cost surge blocks bank matching 2022

Commonwealth Bank believes it would have come close to matching 2022’s “extraordinary” nine-month profitability had it not been for $3m in new Business Licence fees and utility costs “more than doubling”.

Story
Tease photo

Chamber chief: Cost of living ‘is out of control’

Abaco’s Chamber of Commerce president says the cost of living is “getting out of control” as she warned the island can absorb no further hikes following the summer’s “exorbitant” light bills.

Story

RBC blocked from twice seeking default damages

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) has been blocked from pursuing damages twice over the same delinquent loan that a Bahamian jitney operator first defaulted on more than 12 years ago.

Story

First-time Jollification vendor shares message of love

AFTER she lost her hair to alopecia, Tecoya Curry’s boyfriend showed his love for her by making a wooden craft of her baldness.

Story
Tease photo

Mortgage loan approvals hit 4-and-a-half year low

Mortgage loan approvals have slumped to their lowest level in four-and-a-half years, it has been revealed, with almost one in four applications rejected because borrowers have a 50 percent debt service ratio.