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PLAYER OF THE MONTH: Jonquel ‘JJ’ Jones earns honours for October
Grand Bahama native Jonquel “JJ” Jones is The Tribune Sports’ Player of the Month for October.
Elite Girls Basketball League heats up
THE action is starting to heat up in the Elite Girls Basketball League.
EDITORIAL: Murder count tops 100 again, despite COP’s promise
IN August of last year, Police Commissioner Clayton Fernander was insistent that the country would not pass a total of 100 murders. He was wrong.
STATESIDE: Messi makes and impact on Miami sports with a look at Mas Canosa’s impact on Cuban-US relations
WE all know about the close ties The Bahamas maintains with South Florida. It’s hardly a secret that the legal as well as the illegal commerce between us has over many decades proven to be enduring, necessary, lucrative and quite creative. Miami-Dade County has 30 “sister city” agreements with foreign municipalities around the world, including one with The Bahamas. And one of Miami’s two “friendship city” relationships is with Barcelona which might prove to be prophetic, as we will see.
WSC worker denies being coerced to testify against Gibson
A SENIOR employee at the Water and Sewerage Corporation denied a defence attorney’s suggestion yesterday that she was coerced into giving evidence against Adrian Gibson and his co-accused to avoid being charged in the case.
TOP EXEC’S DAUGHTER GOT WSC CONTRACT: New revelation about current chief emerges in Adrian Gibson trial
ADRIAN Gibson’s corruption trial began yesterday with Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) executive chairman Sylvanus Petty admitting under cross-examination that his daughter had a contract with the company.
Tanks didn’t need anything, said a WSC manager in Gibson case
A WATER and Sewerage Corporation employee testified in the Adrian Gibson corruption trial yesterday that water tanks were in “fairly” good condition in 2020 before $260k contracts were awarded for companies to paint them.
‘Companies awarded contracts were not approved contractors’
A SENIOR manager of the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC), who claimed to be related to Adrian Gibson, testified that the companies awarded contracts to paint water tanks when Mr Gibson was executive chairman were not on the corporation’s approved contractor list nor known to engineers.
‘I WAS FIRED FOR FOLLOWING RULES’: Adrian Gibson trial hears claim of WSC manager termination
AS Adrian Gibson’s criminal trial resumed yesterday, a Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) manager claimed she was “terminated” after refusing to pay companies awarded landscaping contracts because she lacked necessary documentation.
Bahamas ‘prioritises’ debt servicing over its people
The Bahamas has reached a point where the Government is prioritising interest payments on its $11.645bn national over services to its people, an investment analyst argued yesterday.
Police allegedly find a gun and ammo in house of man waiting trial for murder of Corporal Fox
A MAN awaiting trial for allegedly trying to murder a police officer was denied bail yesterday after a gun and a large quantity of ammunition was allegedly found in his home.
‘40 percent of work permits are jobs Bahamians can do’
LABOUR Director Robert Farquharson believes 40 per cent of the 12,000 work permits issued this year relate to jobs Bahamians can fill.
Food prices to ‘never return to pre-COVID’
The Retail Grocers Association’s president yesterday warned Bahamians that food prices will not return to pre-COVID levels and said: “The cost of operations is increasing all over the world.”
National debt up $458m despite ratios declining
The post-COVID economic revival dropped The Bahamas’ debt-to-GDP ratio to 85 percent at end-June despite the national debt increasing by $457.5m over the prior 12 months to $11.645bn.
Gov’t wage bill’s $68m jump ‘not annual norm’
The Ministry of Finance's top official last night said the $68m year-over-year increase in compensation for government employees during the 2022-2023 fiscal year is "not an annual norm".
Bannister: No cap on WSC contract approval
FORMER Works Minister Desmond Bannister testified that the Water and Sewerage Corporation’s (WSC) board was not legally required to refer contracts over $250,000 for ministerial approval during his last day of testimony in the bribery and fraud trial of Long Island MP Adrian Gibson and five others.
Deflation in the East
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Everyone in The Bahamas is feeling the rising cost of goods, energy and transportation. No matter if you visit the food store, turn on your AC or fuel up your car, you are paying more for these necessities than compared to the previous year. But the inflation rate in the islands is decreasing, and went down from 3.1 percent to 2.3 percent when compared to last year.
Bahamas to field its best team ever: FIBA Pre-Olympic qualifier August 14-20
With National Basketball Association’s DeAndre Ayton and Eric Gordon all committed to joining Chavano “Buddy” Hield and Kai Jones, the Bahamas is expected to field its best team for the Pre-Olympic Qualifier in Santiago de Estero, Argentina.
Bahamas men spike way into semifinals
Ladies suffer third straight loss
The men’s national volleyball team, with a well-rounded effort from every player, swept aside Martinique in three straight sets to advance to the semifinals of the Senior Caribbean Volleyball Championships at the Anthony Nesty Sports Hall in Paramaribo, Suriname.
Genesis triumph at BSAA annual meet
THE Bahamas Scholastic Athletic Association completed its annual track and field meet on Friday at the original Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium with Genesis Academy emerging as this year’s champions.
