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Bank: road money is running out
Bank: road money is running out By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Staff Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net THE $129 million the Inter American Development Bank provided for the New Providence Road Improvement Project will be depleted by the end of the month, ac
Bank: road money is running out
Bank: road money is running out By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Staff Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net THE $129 million the Inter American Development Bank provided for the New Providence Road Improvement Project will be depleted by the end of the month, ac
Sports notes
THE Sports Unit of the Department of Eduction, Science and Technology, in conjunction with the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association, has announced that its basketball championships are set to be held at Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium January 30 to February 3.
Metta World Peace faces NBA discipline
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The Lakers jersey says World Peace on the back. The player wearing it is still Ron Artest, and he's in trouble again with the NBA. Metta World Peace was pounding his chest with his right arm in celebration of a dunk over two opponents S
FIBA: Team Bahamas tops Belize, moves on to next round
TEAM Bahamas will advance to the next round in their bid for FIBA AmeriCup and World Cup qualifications.
FACE TO FACE: Leading light in American football for The Bahamas
AMERICAN football has yet to become as big as it could be in The Bahamas. Even though thousands of Bahamians energetically follow the NFL and anticipate the Superbowl, football is not a major sport in this country.
NCAA Div 2: Bahamian players on streaks
SEVERAL Bahamian basketball players at the NCAA Division II level took respective win streaks into a brief winter break.
Eric Wiberg – New Providence: 60 land accidents
WHETHER planes touched wingtips, men walked into propellers, bombers collided, planes were lost in microbursts, or had training gunnery mishaps, Nassau, Windsor and Oakes air fields and adjacent waters claimed many lives. More than half of all accidents in the colony – 80 of 150 – took place at or near the air fields and New Providence. This article deals with the 55 accidents that happened or ended up on land. In the three years from January 1943 131 aviators and a Bahamian family of three were killed by military aircraft in New Providence and its waters, with 83 rescued, and those fatalities recovered buried on Farrington Road. Pre-existing Oakes Field, used for training, saw nine crashes and most of the 25 unallocated, and Windsor Field, still in use, had 21.
Jonquel Jones re-signs with New York Liberty
JONQUEL “JJ” Jones, former Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) MVP, has decided to run it back with the New York Liberty for the upcoming season
CCA pursued new work while Baha Mar ‘failed’
Baha Mar’s contractor was allegedly so busy pursing work on other Caribbean mega resort projects that it failed to focus on the $3.5 billion development “at a crucial time”, bringing it to the “point of failure”.
Sarkis to local creditors: Unite to pursue $192m
Baha Mar’s original developer yesterday moved to intensify pressure on the Government by calling on the several thousand Bahamian creditors to unite behind pursuit of a $192 million legal claim against the project’s contractor.
TRIBUNE BUSINESS OPINION: New approach needed to break Baha Mar deadlock
Neil Hartnell suggests how to exploit the breathing space provided by the Supreme Court and resolve the 10-month impasse
TOUGH CALL: The Yellow Brick Road or the road to Hell?
LIKE others, I spend a lot of time grazing on social media these days. Although you have to wade through muddy water, it is one of the best ways to gauge the opinions of a wide cross-section of Bahamians.
Minority interest holds UK political power in the balance
The race is finally on. Following last week’s dissolution of Parliament by The Queen, official campaigning is under way in the lead-up to a General Election in Britain on May 7. Six hundred and fifty seats at Westminster will be contested and few would dare predict the outcome of what is likely to be an exceptionally close battle.
Stand up and be counted
Why is it that apathy and/or complacency are so predominant in our society today? Is it like the recent Sideburns cartoon illustration where it was mentioned that the nation has an average “D-” in maths and thus are unable to comprehend VAT? However, many of the issues I raise below are not solely targeted at the uneducated or uninformed – these are issues where the educated middle-class should be hollering
Breezes '32-month wait' for Baha Mar land proof
SuperClubs Breezes has allegedly been waiting 32 months for proof that the land it will receive from Baha Mar has been freed from all mortgage-related charges.
Sarkis’s latest Baha Mar offer ‘in vain’
Sarkis Izmirlian’s latest offer to purchase Baha Mar is in vain because the project’s receivers and secured lender cannot negotiate deals outside the Supreme Court-approved sales process, Tribune Business was told yesterday.
INSIGHT: The real point of Dame Anita’s lecture on marriage
It has become apparent since the presentation last week of the 8th Annual Eugene Dupuch Distinguished Lecture, hosted by the Eugene Dupuch Law School and by Dupuch & Turnquest & Co Chambers, that much public debate has emerged, related to several aspects of the presentation.
Wentia helps to keep her father Wenty Ford’s legacy alive at baseball camp
SHE was too young to remember the exploits of Wenty Ford as a Major League Baseball pitcher with the Atlanta Braves, but Wentia Ford-Diagne said she’s so glad that there are so many memories of her father that she can still rely on to help keep his legacy alive.
DIANE PHILLIPS: What it takes to breathe new life into historic Nassau
PARTS of this column first appeared nearly five years ago. Sadly, it remains all too relevant. The Tribune has agreed to re-run it today at my request in light of the Davis administration’s commitment to rescuing and resuscitating the historic city of Nassau.
