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Starting with a bang
Dwight Coleby and Zane Knowles have made immediate impacts with their new clubs while others produced impressive stat lines this week to highlight performances from Bahamian pro basketball players in European and Asian leagues.
Tourism moves to halt 85% earnings leakage
Tourism executives are hoping to “arrest” the leakage of 85 per cent of the industry’s revenues by better connecting Bahamian entrepreneurs/producers with wholesale purchasers in the sector.
Resorts enjoy 'very good' Easter period
MAJOR Nassau/Paradise Island hotels yesterday reported “very good” business over the Easter weekend, with the Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD) receiving a “welcomed boost” from CARIFTA games.“All terminals were busy with passengers excited to
Burrows and Tigers get wins over Woodswide and Capers, Gibson and Huskies open season victorious
THE 2021-22 Atlantic University Sport men’s basketball season tipped off on October 29 and several Bahamians were active for their respective programmes in opening weekend double headers.
Truckers even series 1-1
After dropping game one of the series, Johnson’s Trucking sidestepped a possible deficit and tied their NPBA Division II series 1-1.
Jaron Cornish making a name for himself with Sea Wolves
JARON Cornish continues to make the most of his recent opportunities in his first season with the Stony Brook Sea Wolves men’s basketball programme.Cornish has set milestones in his last three games, most recently scoring in double figures for the se
YOUR SAY: Local government . . . at best, inadequate
“An informed citizen is one who participates fully, understanding that democracy is not only the time spent in a polling booth every five years, but rather, democracy is the active participation of that same citizen in the day to day affairs of his country.” Warren J Levarity – 1967
INSIGHT: Science is the way forward
The Bahamas, like the rest of the world, should realise by now that COVID-19 and its effects are going to be around for some time and as such we should be finding a way to live with it.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Can someone please explain why this is allowed to happen?
A real-life Hatfield-McCoys is playing out on a narrow, paved path off Village Road in Nassau. That’s where a few residents on the southern side and in a neatly fenced in area at the cul de sac on the western end have been fighting a seemingly endless battle with an unlicensed hotel that occupies the northern side.
FACE TO FACE: Felicia fighting to help young women from falling through the cracks in the system
When Felicia was just 16-years-old, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. She knew she was too young and that life would never be the same. She was born in a two-parent home and she considered her life stable until the age of 10, when her parents got divorced.
STATESIDE: The #MeToo creator changing the world
We often read stories about lottery winners. We read the winner was living a modest life and the unimaginable riches from the lottery will transform his or her life. There is once-in-a-lifetime excitement, then a list of worthy things the person will do with the money.
PETER YOUNG: Strong words - but are the right people listening?
THE current international hysteria over the threat of a Russian invasion of Ukraine has been dominating the news to such an extent recently that various other significant international events have been largely ignored in the media. One example was last week’s visit to Australia of the British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss.
PETER YOUNG: Global tensions take the shine off China’s sporting showcase
IN an ideal world politics should be kept out of sport. But, in reality, that is rarely possible since at the national level, in particular, the two are inextricably linked.
A prime minister felled by Europe - will she be the last?
Yesterday’s outcome of the European Parliament elections showed the mainstream centrist parties across the continent took a battering from populist and environmental groups which has resulted in considerable political fragmentation. The elections were a massive exercise in democracy with more than 400 million people eligible to vote and the shock outcome is inevitably dominating the news the other side of the Atlantic. Unsurprisingly, these seismic events have already overshadowed the main political development in Britain last week which was the resignation of Prime Minister Theresa May – and, since there has been only limited coverage of this on the main US TV channels, readers might be interested in some analysis.
US visa concern
Here is a matter of great concern, I am one of the Bahamians who falls in the category of Bahamians who need a US Visa B1/B2 to visit the States, but felt I was wrongly treated in my reapplying for the visa, following numerous submitted applications through a JP Visa prepared my visa wasn't approved, but each time was told I may re-apply at a later date and I always waited over the suggested waiting time six months before re-applying.
Call for immediate ceasefire
JOINING the voices of non-governmental organisations, feminist movements, and activists all over the world, Equality Bahamas calls for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the occupation of Palestine by Israel.
No layoffs over laundry changes, says Atlantis
SENIOR Atlantis Vice-President Ed Fields insisted there would be “absolutely no layoffs” at the hotel after laundry workers were told some positions had been made redundant yesterday morning.
NCAA Division I: Cornish and Seawolves are back in the win column
JARON Cornish’s late game scoring flurry lifted the Stony Brook Seawolves back into the win column to highlight play from Bahamian basketball players at the NCAA Division I level.
Alex Cooper named to Cougar's All-Decade Offensive Team
ALEX Cooper was recognised as one of the top players in the Houston Cougars football programme over the past 10 years as it continued to rise to national prominence. Cooper was named to The Cougar’s All-Decade Offensive Team featuring the top perfor
Bahamians take NCAA Division I basketball spotlight
A MATCHUP between a pair of Bahamians in a double overtime thriller highlighted the weekend of play in NCAA Division I basketball.
