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Christie believes crisis will bring PLP victory

FORMER Prime Minister Perry Christie believes that the “enormity” of the country’s COVID-19 crisis will propel Bahamians to vote for the Progressive Liberal Party in the 2021 general election.

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CHAMBER VOICE: Lessons from the Big One

A few weeks ago we shared information on the impact the death of an employee can have on the company.

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His back ailing, Tiger Woods merely an onlooker - for now

JORDAN Spieth is used to having an audience on the golf course - just not Tiger Woods.

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Age and climate change - the real time machine

AGE/AGEING is the real time machine, created by God Himself and not by man’s ingenuity. Like climate change, to which I am a recent and reluctant adherent, age and aging are real phenomena.

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Clarence Murphy

Last rites for Clarence ‘Tye’ Murphy aged 78 of South Mastic Point, Andros and formerly of Lowe Sound Andros will be held on Saturday at 11:00 A.M. at Pleasant View Assembly, South Mastic Point, Andros . Officiating will be Bishop …

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EDITORIAL: Public funds for party travel rightly queried

PUBLIC use of funds has come under the spotlight recently – and the Office of the Prime Minister did itself no favours yesterday with a statement that sounded petulant at best.

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GREGORY GEORGE CULMER JR

Funeral service for the late GREGORY GEORGE “JIGGA” CULMER JR. age 20 years of #530 East Street South and formerly of Miami, Florida will be held on Saturday, January 25th, 2020 at 12:00 P.M. at Trinity Global Cathedral Marshall Road …

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Felix Frederick Bethel

Funeral service for the late Felix Frederick Bethel age 70 years of Viola Sands House, Sandilands Village will be held on Saturday, November 30th, 2019 at 2:00 P.M. at New Covenant Baptist Church, Independence Drive. Officiating will be Pastor Simeon …

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Police need our support

Can you imagine going to work each day and not being sure you’ll survive your shift and see your family again?

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Final farewell to ‘leader and patriot’

FORMER Cabinet minister Phenton Neymour was remembered yesterday as a leader and patriot who died too soon.

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Tributes paid to Tennyson Wells

FAMILY, friends, and members of Parliament gathered at Christ Church Cathedral yesterday to mourn the death of Tennyson Wells, a former Cabinet Minister and BAMSI's Chairman.

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Time to retire juries from serious cases

“WHEN a man is on trial for serious crime,” said Lord Denning, “trial by jury has no equal.”

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FACE TO FACE: A pastor and a visionary

PASTOR Kendal “Kenny” Carroll has always had a prophetic gift. Even as a child, his mother pointed out that he has “inner sight”, as his dreams and visions would come true, and help family and friends in their lives. He also had the gift of speech, and together, these two talents gave way to his path and purpose in life.

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Unsung songs in The Bahamas

Our African traditions are often celebrated for the oral aspects of passing information down from one generation to another. Some might be inclined to generalise African people and African culture as a monolith, without very important distinctions. Without getting into an exposition on the wide variety of African societies, I will simply draw attention to the documented vast and exceptional libraries of Timbuktu.

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WORLD VIEW: America’s Democracy not trumped in mid-term vote

IN my commentary last week entitled, US Mid-term elections: a defining moment for the World, I pointed out that no less a person than Joseph R Biden Jr, the President of the United States of America, proclaimed that democracy is at stake in his country.

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Doreen Leola Williams

Funeral service for the late Doreen Leola Williams age 83 years of #18 Commonwealth Ave & Bristol Street and formerly of Colonel Hill, Crooked Island will be held on Saturday, December 14th, 2019 at 11:00 A.M. at The Remnant Tabernacle …

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Sir Durward – remembered with love

BAHAMIAN icon, Olympian, and philanthropist Sir Durward Randolph Knowles was remembered yesterday as a man who loved his country and strove to make his community a better place.

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Brother of fallen marine delivers blistering attack on RBDF

“A NATIONAL disaster” is how the brother of slain Royal Bahamas Defence Force Petty Officer Percival Philip Perpall described the circumstances surrounding his brother’s murder, as he delivered a blistering attack on the RBDF yesterday during Perpall’s military funeral.

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Police 'beat my brother'

AN EAST Street family yesterday condemned the behaviour of police officers that led to the hospitalisation of a man with internal bleeding. Last night, 34-year-old Leslie Louis said he now suffers from frequent dizzy spells and “heaviness” in his head since he was allegedly beaten by police at a family meeting to prepare for his mother’s funeral.

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Agnes Maria Cash

Home Going Celebration For the late Agnes Maria Cash Sunrise: March 11th, 1952 Sunset: May 11th, 2014 Age: 62 Service held at Charles Wesley Methodist Church Lower Bogue Eleuthera, Bahamas Saturday May 31st, 2014 At: 11:00 A.M Officiating Rev. Christopher …