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Chisholm’s 3B, 2B lead Marlins over Phillies for series win
JASRADO “Jazz” Chisholm Jr continues to emerge as the face of the Miami Marlins franchise and his hot start to the season has him among the team leads early in the 2022 season.
NPBA Championships: Rockets sweep Giants
WHILE the Discount Distributors Rockets celebrated with a three-game sweep of the New Providence Basketball Association men’s division one championship series, dethroning the Commonwealth Bank Giants, the division II series between the Sun Oil Rockets and the Your Essential Store (YES) Giants will go right down to the wire in the fifth and deciding game.
Learning how to restore mangrove population
MANGROVE education and training is underway on Grand Bahama for some 30 participants at the Rand Nature Centre as part of a major Mangrove Restoration Project by Waterkeepers Bahamas and Earthcare Bahamas.
Fuel costs up - and so is price of fish and hot cross buns
THE rising cost of fuel coupled with inflationary pricing at grocery stores have sparked price increases among fishermen and bakeries that produce the Easter season favourite - hot cross buns.
260,000 vehicles - and only 436 of them electric
THE more than 260,000 registered vehicles in The Bahamas contribute significantly to the country’s air pollution, a Department of Road Traffic official said at a World Health Day Symposium hosted by the Ministry of Health and Wellness and the Pan American Health Organisation.
STATESIDE: Putin and his ‘lost’ Ukraine
IRREDENTISM is a ten-dollar word most often employed to describe the origins of wars and other geopolitical disagreements. Irredentism means political or popular movements whose members claim and seek to occupy territory on behalf of their nation that they consider “lost” to their nation, based on history or legend.
FRONT PORCH – Lack of civility, respect and cleanliness: we like it so!
A friend in his late 60s recalls walking along Market Street and coming upon a teenage boy around the age of 13, who was sitting in a car eating guineps, discarding the seeds and shells onto the road, even though there were several garbage bins within easy reach.
‘Give gas dealers reward for no Easter shut down’
The Government was yesterday urged to give gas station operators some reward for letting “common sense prevail”, as the industry pledged “there’ll be no shut down on this island” over the Easter weekend.
Governor General is released from hospital
GOVERNOR General Sir Cornelius A Smith has been released from Doctors Hospital and is now “resting comfortably” at home, according to a statement from his office.
Davis says no to NIB increase
PRIME Minister Philip “Brave” Davis said yesterday there will be no increase in National Insurance Board contributions until his administration is able to arrest the hardships facing Bahamians.
Prison service ‘needs hundreds of officers’
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe said the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services is short hundreds of prison officers and has requested additional mental health experts.
British man held after drugs found on sailboat
A BRITISH citizen was arrested in Grand Bahama after Bahamian authorities allegedly discovered illegal drugs on a sailboat docked at a canal in the Bahama Reef Boulevard area.
‘We cannot let NIB go broke’
The Bahamas cannot “let the National Insurance Board (NIB) go broke”, top business executives warned yesterday, with financial analysts asserting: “You cannot kick the can down the road any further.”
Gas margin rise ‘non-starter’ despite fairness questions
A Cabinet minister yesterday ruled out increased margins for gas station dealers as “a non-starter” even though a major petroleum supplier conceded that current volatility “calls into question the fairness” of the industry’s pricing structure.
Trying to avoid an Easter shutdown
ECONOMIC Affairs Minister Michael Halkitis said the government is planning to meet with the Bahamas Petroleum Dealers Association today to address their concerns about rising fuel prices, among other things.
Sydney Clarke and Blazers ‘have been improving’
THE collegiate season is starting to wind down for Sydney Clarke and her University of Arlington at Birmingham Blazers women’s tennis team.
Da Boyz win the Old Timers Memorial Softball Tournament
WITH renovations at the Archdeacon William Thompson Softball Park at the Southern Recreational Grounds not completed yet, the New Providence Old Timers Softball Association staged their first Memorial Softball Tournament over the weekend at the Bankers Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex.
FACE TO FACE: Beauty queen who heard her calling
She has graced the stage of the Miss World Beauty Pageant representing the Bahamas... and she very well could have lit stages afire around the world as a dancer. But something drew Bridgette Cooper back home – the desire to educate those who likely needed her help the most.
Gas station shut down to ‘bring country to halt’
A gas station shut down would “bring the country to a halt” and threaten the “nascent recovery” from COVID-19, a governance reformer warned yesterday, adding that such a move would be “ill-advised”.
Tourism giants in ‘coral reef gene bank’ move
Conservationists are partnering with Atlantis and Disney to create a “coral reef gene bank” to save several Bahamian species in danger of being wiped out by disease, Tribune Business can reveal.
