All results / Stories
Sort By
Date
Authors
- Everyone
- Samora St Rose (132)
- Neil Hartnell (79)
- Renaldo Dorsett (60)
- Brent Stubbs (58)
- Natario McKenzie (30)
- Eloise Poitier (23)
- Eileen Carron (21)
- Paco Nunez (18)
- Dana Smith (16)
- Ava Turnquest (13)
$100m Cable offer oversubscribed on its launch day
Cable Bahamas’s $100 million preference share issue was oversubscribed on its first day, but Bahamian institutional investors were yesterday urged to continue buying in as the company will “take what it can get”.
SPORTS NOTES
JACOBI Bain, the only Bahamian playing in the 2015 Eddie Herr International Championships in Florida, suffered a 6-3, 6-3 loss to Xaiofei Wang of China in the boys 12 semi-final.
Is national stadium the biggest mistake yet?
EDITOR, The Tribune. May I respond to the letter signed under the name Ed Fields, "We The People". Mr Fields should recognise, I hope, that this National Stadium could easily become the biggest white elephant, hole in the ocean any Bahamas Government ha
Salem Union Baptist are volleyball champions
SALEM Union Baptist carted off the top prize in the Baptist Sports Council’s 2013 Co-Ed Volleyball Classic at the DW Davis Gymnasium on Saturday.
Sports in brief
THE Junior Baseball League of Nassau is slated to host its first US Embassy/JBLN/MLB Baseball Skills Clinic October 30 to November 2 at the St Andrew’s Field of Dreams.
Did granting bail cause more murders?
There is basic evidence in the number of cases where persons on bail killed people on bail.
City EPL decider no formality in season of twists
LONDON (AP) -- A Premier League title race that has thrown up so many unexpected turns could produce one final twist Sunday if Queens Park Rangers pulls off an upset at title-chasing Manchester City. The trophy was heading to the blue half of Manchester wh
Commonwealth hails $63.5m profit amid 91% claw back fall
COMMONWEALTH Bank yesterday hailed its “second most profitable” year-ever through $63.5m in net income that was generated despite a near-91 percent drop on COVID loss provision write-backs.
SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: The day Wilt the Stilt and the Bears made their point
CHRISTMAS is fast approaching - the equivalent of the Super Bowl for ‘shopaholics’ like my wife.
Golf teams feeding the needy in inaugural BFN Golf Tournament
WITH the demand increasing on a daily basis for those in need for food, the Bahamas Feeding Network is making an extra effort to raise at least $100,000 to be able to assist as much as they can by hosting its inaugural Golf Tournament on Sunday, September 25 at the Ocean Club Golf Club.
DPM hails 42% rise in FDI equity inflows
The deputy prime minister yesterday hailed a 42 percent year-over-year increase in foreign investors’ equity investments as confirmation that “The Bahamas’ economic turnaround has begun”.
Czechs target $22m of Kozeny’s assets
Controversial Lyford Cay-based financier, Viktor Kozeny, is confronting a ‘ghost from his past’ over moves to enforce a $410 million judgment against him by seizing $22 million held in frozen New York bank accounts.
Cruise visitor spend slumps 23% in 3 years
Average cruise visitor spend in the Bahamas has slumped by an alarming 23 per cent over the past three years, a report for the Florida-Caribbean Cruise Association (FCCA) has revealed, even though this nation leads the Caribbean through an annual $394 million economic impact from the industry.
Elizabeth constituents undecided as election countdown continues
SOME traditional supporters of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and the Free National Movement (FNM) in the Elizabeth constituency see no reason to change their preference when they vote in eight days, they told The Tribune yesterday.
Aliv takes 100 site options as BTC ‘Plan A’
Aliv will “revert to Plan A” and execute 100 mobile network site options if it cannot reach agreement with the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) within a reasonable time period.
Bodies in bathtubs
WHEN anyone is declared dead on Cat Island they are stuffed into a body bag, placed in a bathtub and blanketed with ice to slow the process of decomposition, The Tribune has been told.
Swim meet: Alpha Aquatics win their annual Invitational
THE Alpha Aquatics Swim Club won their annual invitational swim meet held at the Betty Kelly Kenning swim complex over the weekend. At the end of the two-day meet held on Friday and Saturday, Alpha posted the highest scores of 513 points in the wome
WORLD VIEW: Boris Johnson’s homegrown can of worms
THERE were echoes of US President Donald Trump’s famous campaign slogan, “Make America great again”, in the first parliamentary statement of Britain’s new Prime Minister, Boris Johnson. “Our mission”, Mr Johnson declared is “making this country the greatest place on earth”.
IT miss exposes NHI to ‘US-fraud levels’
A well-known physician yesterday warned that the National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme could be exposed to “US-style fraud levels”, after the Government admitted the necessary IT system will not be ready for its January 2017 launch.
Bid to snatch Kozeny's $22m was 'doomed'
The Czech authorities’ bid to seize $22 million allegedly belonging to Lyford Cay financier, Viktor Kozeny, has been “doomed” by the defective service of court documents on him in the Bahamas.
