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'Jazz' Chisholm is first Bahamian in Major League Baseball selected for All-Star game
ALTHOUGH he’s currently on a 10-day injury, Miami Marlins’ second baseman Jasrado ‘Jazz’ Chisholm is now the first Bahamian in Major League Baseball to be selected to the All-Star game.
WORLD VIEW: Safeguarding rights from authoritarian governments
THE rights of persons everywhere in the world have to be protected from authoritarian governments that suffocate them.
External shocks cause for a ‘special situation’
The Bahamas is “in a special situation” due to its high vulnerability to natural disasters and economic shocks, a trade specialist said yesterday, with imported goods ten times’ higher than exports.
Questions raised over fatal crash
FAMILY members of two men killed in a traffic accident on Monday have expressed concern about the response time of first responders to the scene of the incident. According to reports, the incident happened shortly before 5am.
Mackey Jr to continue pro basketball career in Europe
AFTER completing his first year with Mulhouse Basket in France, Grand Bahamian native Willis Mackey Jr is looking forward to returning to Europe in August to continue his professional basketball career.
Joe leads 76ers past Thunder in SLC Summer League 80-79
ISAIAH Joe made a go-ahead 3-pointer with 25 seconds left, his fourth of the game, and the Philadelphia 76ers beat the Oklahoma City Thunder 80-79 on Thursday on Day 3 of the Salt Lake City Summer League.
Banks’ fee income doubles in decade
Bahamian commercial banks are generating an ever-increasing share of their income from the fees detested by many consumers, which now account for more than $1 out of every $5 in earnings.
Bahamas’ 20% shrink ‘not seen in worst crisis’
Bahamian economic output shrunk by a “remarkable” 20 percent in 2020, an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) economist said yesterday, branding this COVID-induced plunge as “something you don’t see in the worst crisis”.
Clean-up held in Bimini
WATERKEEPERS Bahamas alongside 4Ocean hosted its second annual beach clean-up on Radio Beach, Bimini, where the event saw the removal of 1,500 pounds of garbage.
EDITORIAL: Twin disasters of COVID and Dorian
WE ALL knew that COVID-19 had inflicted a hammer blow to the Bahamian economy. The scale of that impact is still only now becoming clear.
Man tells court his stolen bike was on sale on Facebook
A MAN yesterday told a Magistrate’s Court that after his motorcycle was stolen, it was later placed on Facebook for sale.
Three face court on firearm charges
THREE men were arraigned in court yesterday on separate firearm and ammunition charges.
COVID imposes $120m public health system cost
A Cabinet minister yesterday said COVID-19 has cost the public health system some $120m to-date, leaving it with $50m in “unbudgeted debt” which he discovered upon taking office.
Bahamas among most exposed to Ukraine war
The Bahamas must brace for multiple economic “uncertainties” over the next 12-18 months, a governance reformer warned yesterday, after it was named among the eight Western Hemisphere states most vulnerable to the Ukraine war.
Minister discusses ‘betrayal’ claim by former commissioner
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe has recalled his personal experiences with former commissioner Paul Rolle regarding the senior officers who were made to take accumulated vacation and later seconded to various ministries.
COVID collapse sparked rare $1.7bn ‘dual deficit’
Tourism’s “collapse” at COVID-19’s peak “exposed the fragility” of The Bahamas’ current economic model by producing rare twin goods and services trade deficits worth a combined $1.7bn.
Freeport man on murder charge
A FREEPORT man was charged with murder in the local magistrate’s court yesterday.
Buddy: ‘We didn’t match their physicality’
NATIONAL Basketball Association player Chavano “Buddy” Hield said he couldn’t ask for more support than they got from the Bahamian public for the men’s national team matchup against the Dominican Republic.
Coach McPhee-McCuin makes her presence felt
SHE made history as the first Bahamian female to serve as a coach on the men’s national basketball team. But Grand Bahamian Yolett McPhee-McCuin has assured the females that she won’t abandon them as the team’s head coach.
