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Operators force deciding game 5

With the game and their season on the line, Keva Johnson powered inside for the winning basket to help the Bommer Gee Operators stave off elimination and force a fifth and deciding game.

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'The Promise' prevails

A matchup between two of the top big men in all of NCAA Division I basketball - Arizona’s DeAndre Ayton and UNLV’s Brand McCoy produced in an overtime thriller.In the end, Ayton and the Wildcats scored a 91-88 win over the UNLV Runnin’ Rebels Saturda

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Franco's game-high 30 helps Lions to 111-88 win over Beast Basketball

FRANCO Miller continues to bolster his recruiting stock in his lone season of prep basketball with the Crestwood Prep Academy Lions.Miller opened up session two of the The National Preparatory Association’s Prep League yesterday with a game-high 30 p

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BGDBA postseason opens

THE Bahamas Government Departmental Basketball Association opened its postseason on Saturday night with all eight playoff teams playing in the four games at the AF Adderley Gymnasium.• Results of the games were as follows:Bamboo Shack Cybots def. the

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South Andros men win opener

South Andros won the opener of the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s 2014 Bunny Levarity Basketball Tournament at the AF Adderley Gymnasium last night. But Bimini gave them all they could handle.

GB Power: $28m damage from Joaquin-type storm

A Joaquin-style hurricane would likely impose $28 million worth of repair costs on Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC), with its top executive defending the ‘storm insurance’ charge it plans to levy on customer bills.

'Little chance' to lower high debt, bad loan levels

The Central Bank of the Bahamas has admitted the current economic climate provides "little opportunity" to reduce high consumer debt and loan delinquency levels, with only 'qualified borrowers' able to access credit.

Bonded warehouses 'good business all around', say dealers

Auto dealers believe it will be “good business all around” if recent Customs visits mark the first step towards being able to establish bonded warehouses at their properties.Fred Albury, the Bahamas Motor Dealers Association’s (BMDA) president, said

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Oil explorer fearing up to $500m harm

The Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) fears it could suffer "up to $500m in economic harm" if environmental activists succeed with yesterday's legal bid to halt its oil drilling plans.

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The pumpkin that grew and grew and grew . . .

ZELDA Bevans intends to share her mother’s latest gift – a 50 pound pumpkin grown on her farm in South Andros – with family and friends.

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Man shot dead and second victim in hospital

POLICE are investigating a shooting in Montell Heights yesterday that left one man dead and another in hospital in serious condition. Residents told The Tribune at the scene that yesterday’s incident was the third day of shooting in the area.

Latest delay in family dispute

THE legal dispute between the millionaire Weissfisch brothers experienced another setback yesterday as the matter was adjourned to a date to be announced by the Court of Appeal.

Late Joseph goal sees Titans through against Dynamos

THE Bahamas Football Association continued its regular season action on Wednesday night at the Roscoe AL Davies Soccer Field.

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Miller re-elected president of BAAC in landslide victory

SHAUN Miller has been re-elected as president of the Bahamas Association of Athletic Coaches in a landslide victory over past president Curtis Pride with all of his slate of officers voted in.

Treasure Cay’s fuel post eyes $3m record

While the new Delta Airlines service has brightened the immediate future for Abaco tourism, a Treasure Cay hotelier warned that the lack of domestic service into that location “has hurt us for three years”.

'Cold blob' holds key to Atlantic hurricane season - 14 tropical storms predicted

EXPERTS at a leading US weather forecasting service are reporting that the potential movement of a “cold blob” of water in the North Atlantic may hold the key to how active the 2016 Atlantic hurricane season will be.

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Majestic Tours owner Billy Saunders dies

THE FOUNDER of one of the largest tour operators in the Caribbean passed away yesterday, The Tribune has learned.

'Absolutely not a level playing field'

Bahamian investors and businesses are at a disadvantage when competing against foreign investors because of this nation’s high cost platform.

Tribute to a good mother

My Mother and Father migrated to Canada in 1956, refugees escaping the Soviet’s punishments allotted to those who oppose Soviet tyranny wherever it may be, Russia, Eastern Europe and in their case Hungary.

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Responsibility allowance up by 58 percent

SENIOR public servants have collectively received a 58 per cent increase in responsibility allowance.