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EDITORIAL: Commissioner claims curfews have no effect on crime
THE biggest issue facing The Bahamas before the election remains the biggest issue facing the nation after the election.
Runnin’ scared from the ‘gay agenda’
THE Christian Fundamentalists and Evangelicals must be running scared if they have to use the Preamble to the Constitution of The Bahamas to support their bible basis for marriage.
Aidan Carron, loved and lost too soon
TWO-year-old Aidan Roger Dupuch Carron, son of Mr and Mrs Robert Dupuch Carron, died in Baltimore, Maryland, on Christmas Eve after losing his long battle with cancer.
'Zorro' Stubbs laid to rest
“THE most important thing to possess is our soul. Let us wash it clean and give it back to the one who gave it to us,” were the words penned by the late Prince ‘Zorro’ Stubbs in his obituary at his funeral service on Saturday.Rev Fr I Ranfurly Brown,
Mourners say farewell to Dorothea Dupuch
DOROTHEA Jeromita Dupuch, 97, was laid to rest next to her husband in St Anne’s Cemetery yesterday following a service at St Anselm’s Catholic Church, Fox Hill.
Rekindling history
RENOVATIONS to convert the historic Polhemus House in the grounds of the convent of St Martin de Porres Monastery on Nassau Street into a retreat are underway.
EDITORIAL: The unknown cost from excess deaths
WHAT is the real price of COVID-19?
Star authors put the spotlight on literacy
NOVELIST Lee Child, famed for his Jack Reacher thriller series which became a hit movie starring Tom Cruise, was among writers championing literacy at an event last night.
‘Guardian angel’ Davis brands audit a witch hunt
ADMITTING to being a guardian angel to many people over the years, Official Opposition Leader Philip “Brave” Davis branded the EY audit into operations at the Water and Sewerage Corporation as nothing more than a “witch hunt” that has wasted taxpayers’ money.
In tribute to C.A.P. Smith
I READ with considerable sadness of the passing of C A P Smith, a former Permanent Secretary. I extend my profound sympathy to his wife Rachel and his children, all of whom I know personally and who CAP loved beyond measure.
Sir Durward: ‘I left the world a better place than I found it’
SPORTING icon Sir Durward ‘Sea Wolf’ Knowles, in his obituary, as he was laid to rest following his funeral service at the Ebenezer Methodist Church, penned the following words: “I can honestly say, I have lived a full life and I left the world a better place than I found it.”
Funeral home demands evidence over body find
A LOCAL funeral home is demanding the Royal Bahamas Police Force produce evidence of a body that was allegedly found disposed of in an open grave at the Southern Cemetery early last month, claiming that “no official identification of the alleged body” has occurred to date.
Before I die
By Rev Angela C Bosfield Palacious
They served with distinction
The police force is an institution comprised of dedicated men and women of integrity, but like in most such institutions, there will be one or two who do not meet those criteria.
Man jailed unlawfully for eight years dies aged 59
ATAIN Takitota, who was awarded more than $1m for being unlawfully detained in prison for eight years, the largest sum of its kind in The Bahamas, died last month at the Princess Margaret Hospital.
Tributes paid to Lachino
A BLUE urn held the remains of little Lachino Anton Dean on Saturday as distraught relatives gazed on, trying to make sense of a life cut short.Amid the utter destruction of Hurricane Dorian in Abaco, the eight-year-old boy was one of the monster sto
New faces join The Tribune
THERE are major changes in the editorial team at The Tribune with the arrival of a new Managing Editor, News Editor and a news reporter in recent weeks.
Davis’ hands clean on water projects
CAT Island, Rum Cay and San Salvador MP Philip “Brave” Davis did not authorise controversial payments to Nassau Island Development (NID), the contractor for the multi-million dollar Gladstone Road Waste Water Treatment Plant (GRWWTP) that is unfinished despite a 91 percent cost overrun, Works Minister Desmond Bannister said in the House of Assembly yesterday.
Honouring the memory of pioneer pilot
A LOCAL doctor will pilot a single engine plane into New Jersey this weekend to present the Bahamian flag to members of the Albert E Forsyth Chapter of the Black Pilots of America.
Roberts: EY had ‘no right’ to probe political decisions
THE Water & Sewerage Corporation’s (WSC) forensic auditors have “no right to question” politically-led decision-making, a former chairman has blasted.
