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CARIFTA: Team Bahamas bringing home four medals

THE Bahamas national team is expected to return home from the CARIFTA Triathlon & Aquathlon Championships with a total of four medals, inclusive of a pair of silver and bronze each and a fifth place overall.

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‘Buddy’ Hield and Pacers off to surprising start

CHAVANO “Buddy” Hield’s sixth 20-point game of the year led the Indiana Pacers to a win on the road for what most NBA pundits have deemed a surprising start to the 2022-23 season.

McFall, McCoy off to good start in NCAA Div. ii

BOTH Johnathan McFall and Malachi McCoy got their senior seasons off to promising starts as the NCAA Division II basketball season tipped off last weekend in early season tournament play.

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Bahamas secure hard-fought win over Panama

THE Bahamas men’s national team played with a lot of heart and grit right to the end, securing a hard fought 83-79 victory over Panama in the first of two games at home this weekend as the FIBA Americas World Cup Qualifier continued Friday night at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.

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$73m ‘zero carbon’ project targets 36k annual visitors

A $73m investment is aiming to attract 36,000 guests per year at full build-out of a “zero carbon” residential and yacht community on an Exuma cay located just three miles from Georgetown.

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Shamar Burrows and Tigers nationally ranked at No. 10

AFTER the first two weeks of the season, Shamar Burrows and the Dalhousie Tigers are nationally ranked at no.10 in Canada’s U Sports men’s basketball power rankings.

Grand Lucayan sale failure gives investors bad signal

GRAND Bahama’s Chamber of Commerce president yesterday voiced fears that the repeated failures to sell the Grand Lucayan resort will discourage other investors from coming to the island.

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STATESIDE: Watching the election

FOR months, headlines have screamed out warnings that the future of American democracy was at stake in Tuesday’s elections.

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Nicole: Tourism suffers no ‘overwhelming shrinkage’

The Bahamian tourism industry has not suffered a “material” reduction in bookings and guests despite now-Hurricane Nicole striking Grand Bahama and Abaco, a senior hotelier said yesterday.

FIBA World Cup ‘23 Americas Qualifiers postponed

WITH the impending impact of Tropical Storm Nicole on The Bahamas, FIBA and the Bahamas Basketball Federation announced the postponement of the latest window of the World Cup 2023 Americas Qualifiers.

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Junior college basketball prospects soak up early season success in US

BAHAMIAN basketball prospects have teamed up at the junior college level across the United States and have experienced early season success with their respective programmes.

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WEDNESDAY UPDATES: Hurricane Nicole

Speaking this evening, Acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper said in Eleuthera, Andros and New Providence “schools and universities will resume classes tomorrow (Thursday) and all government workers are asked to return to duty.

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ALICIA WALLACE: Speaking out with a strong voice on climate action

OVER the next few days, there will seem to be no end to the conversations about COP27.

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No resolution over food price control ‘stalemate’

The Bahamian food distribution industry was last night said to have reached a “stalemate” over efforts to strike a price control deal with the Government via a 1,000-strong product list designed to “more than half-way” meet its demands.

‘Anxious’ Abaco residents seek out shelter

SOME residents of temporary homes in Abaco sought shelter ahead of Tropical Storm Nicole’s arrival, with one woman saying she was “very afraid” and had an “anxiety level of 1,000”.

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‘Building Holistic Champions'

RED-LINE ATHLETICS TRACK CLUB HOSTS ANNUAL MOTIVATIONAL, HEALTH AND WELLNESS SEMINAR

IN an effort to continue to sensitize its athletes to a holistic approach to track and field, the Red- Line Athletics Track Club hosted its third annual Motivational Health & Wellness Seminar 2022.

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FACE TO FACE: ‘Celebrating Oxi Day with Greece’

I RECEIVED an olive branch the other day. It was during one of the most lovely culinary experiences I have ever had. Every dish was crafted with excellence.

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More than 300 firearms seized by police this year

POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said more than 300 firearms and more than 4,000 rounds of ammunition have been seized this year.

Chinese saw Baha Mar as ‘state-owned assets’

Baha Mar’s Beijing-owned contractor and major financier were already treating the mega resort project as “state-owned assets” prior to finally ousting Sarkis Izmirlian as the project’s developer.

Zero logic on electric vehicles

So lowering the Duty and the costs to land electric vehicles was a priority in these times when Treasury needs all the money they can find?