All results / Stories

Tease photo

Minor League Baseball players in the spotlight

The Minor League Baseball regular season recently concluded in various leagues across the United States and brought an end to the year for several Bahamian players in their respective franchises.Many players completed their first full seasons at the

Tease photo

Streaks come to an end for ‘Buddy’ Hield, Deandre Ayton

SATURDAY’s NBA schedule featured the end of a five-game winning streak for Deandre Ayton’s Phoenix Suns and the end of Chavano “Buddy” Hield’s four-game streak scoring at least 20 points.

Falling mortgage arrears improve commercial loan position

COMMERCIAL bank loan arrears improved in February by $60.2m, with the most significant decline in mortgage arrears which, according to the Central Bank of the Bahamas, contracted by $39.2m.

Tease photo

Bahamians’ presence felt on MLB Pipeline’s Top 30 Prospects list

SINCE Major League Baseball (MLB) Pipeline began listing its top 30 prospects within each franchise for the upcoming 2019 season, Bahamians have been prominently featured.

Tease photo

Rosa and crew lead field at Snipe World Masters

The restoration efforts from the effects of Hurricane Matthew have presented several challenges for the organisers of the Snipe World Championships Masters. However, the event continues this week at the Royal Nassau Sailing Club.

Tease photo

Hotels eye 5-7% peak winter rate increases

A leading Bahamian hotelier yesterday said resorts were looking at a 5-7 per cent year-over-year room rate increase for the peak 2013 Winter season, adding that it was “premature to ring the Doomsday Bell” over the so-called US ‘fiscal cliff’.

Red Cross seeks volunteers

THE Bahamas Red Cross Society is looking to increase its volunteer intake across the country to assist in its work to provide relief and assistance to those in need and during times of disaster.

Tease photo

Simone and Kianna to make history at the World Artistic Gymnastic Championships

IT HAS been a landmark season for gymnastics in the Bahamas and that trend continues as a pair of local gymnasts will make history at the World Artistic Gymnastic Championships.

Tease photo

Police Commissioner wants public outcry on guns

POLICE Commissioner Ellison Greenslade yesterday said he was “very concerned” that the country’s “terrible” murder rate has reached triple digits this year as he criticised the lack of public outcry over the volume of illegal weapons on the streets.

Tease photo

‘Golden Girl’ re-elected

‘GOLDEN GIRL’ Pauline Davis-Thompson got another feather in her cap. She was re-elected to serve as an individual member of the International Amateur Athletic Federation.

Tease photo

‘Superheroes’ take to the streets for Atlantic Medical Fun Walk/Run

MORE than 1,400 “superheroes” took to the street on Saturday morning for the 18th Atlantic Medical Insurance Fun Walk Run, the company’s premier fundraising effort in support of the Bahamas Diabetic Association and the Cancer Society of the Bahamas.  

Tease photo

FOUR QUARTER PRESS: Injuries taking toll on Warriors and the Clippers in playoffs

WHOEVER’S job it was to wish and pray for a good playoff tournament in the NBA this year ... that person clearly forgot to show up for work this post-season.

Reforms to boost financial services industry flexibility

Reforms to two key corporate products will boost the Bahamian financial services industry’s competitiveness by enabling it to provide more flexible structures to clients, the Attorney General has charged.

54 records expunged by rehabilitation committee

THE Rehabilitation of Offenders Committee has received 112 applications from people seeking to have their records wiped clean between January and June of this year, with 54 of those applicants said to have already had their records expunged.

Tease photo

Bahamas advances to Tournament of Americas

Sebastian Gray saved his best game for the finale of the Centrobasket Under-15 Championship for Men yesterday, leading the Bahamas to a third place finish to secure a berth in the Tournament of the Americas.

"A Spring Affair" - Transfiguration Baptist Church hosts tea party and fashion show

THE youngest members of the Transfiguration Baptist Church were the ones who turned heads as the church's Usher Board held its first ever Lenten Tea Party and Fashion Show.

SPORTS NOTES

Bahamas Olympic Committee president Rommel Knowles expressed their gratitude to the family of the late Barbara Thompson on her passing on Wednesday.

Tease photo

Remaining Acklins evacuees head home

MORE than a week after refusing to return home to begin clean-up efforts, those remaining Acklins evacuees still in the Nassau were sent back following a tense ten-day period at the Sir Kendal Isaacs Gym.

Tease photo

Bulldogs rout Stars 102-76

The Truman State University Bulldogs men’s basketball team, shaking off the jet lag, broke away from a close encounter in the first half to rout the Bahamian Star Sports Basketball 102-76 last night to start the Bahamas Basketball Federation’s Summer

Tease photo

Water boss: We want our money

WATER and Sewerage Corporation Executive Chairman Adrian Gibson has confirmed officials are still pursuing all outstanding revenue associated with the “do not disconnect” list of privileged residents exposed by The Tribune last September.