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Sprinter Terrence Jones has double dose of victory

IT was a double dose of victory for Texas Tech junior Terrence Jones in a match-up against fellow Bahamian Wanya McCoy from Florida at the NCAA Division One Indoor Track and Field Championships over the weekend.

Devynne Charlton returns home

WORLD indoor record holder Devynne Charlton received a warm welcome home by her family members, supporters and students of her alma mater St. Augustine’s College at the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) Track and Field Championships on Friday at the original Thomas A Robinson Stadium.

‘Coach Yo’ and Ole Miss Rebels fall to LSU in SEC semifinals

COACH Yolett “Coach Yo” McPhee-McCuin and the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) Rebels stepped onto the hardwood at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena riding a seven-game win streak which was snapped by the Louisiana State University Tigers 75-67 on Saturday.

76ers are planning to work out with NBA free agent Kai Jones

GRAND Bahama native Chavano “Buddy” Hield and NBA free agent Kai Jones could potentially join forces in the future as the Philadelphia 76ers want to meet and work out with the 2021 first rounder, according to Shams Charania of The Athletic.

Forbes second female president of the Bahamas Volleyball Federation

CRYSTAL Forbes is now sitting in the chair as the second female to serve as president of the Bahamas Volleyball Federation.

Crime is not out of control

HERE in our wonderful nation a lot of people are up in arms, pardon the pun, over crime and the fear of crime. Basically, despite the perception, crime is NOT out of control. Yes, there are challenges but nothing insurmountable, in my considered view.

A year later, how is egg programme?

TOWARDS the end of last year l asked the question: What is happening with the big time expensive PR promised/ plenty talk and fanfare openings of the $15m Golden Yolk Programme throughout our Family of Islands?

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Man charged with grievous harm

A MAN was granted $7,000 bail after he was accused of seriously injuring another man in a fight earlier this month.

Mammogram Access Programme launches 'BeProActive Campaign'

THE Mammogram Access Programme (MAP) has launched a BeProActive Campaign to assist women in the public system to get breast cancer screening.

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International Women's Day supplement

Friday, 8th March, 2024.

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Clubs & Societies March 8, 2024.

EduKarting Bahamas held karting sprints and slalom racing at the BHRA Motorsports Park off Sport Centre Road on March 2-3.

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The wreck of the HMS Lowstoffe

GREAT Inagua and Little Inagua boast some of the oldest and most enigmatic shipwrecks in The Bahamas, as they sit across the entrance to the Windward Passage.

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BAIC acquires $400,000 feed mill in first phase of Golden Yolk Project

BAHAMAS Agricultural Industrial Corporation executive chairman Leroy Major said the government acquired a $400,000 animal feed mill for the first phase of its Golden Yolk Project and the development of the Bahamian egg industry.

EDITORIAL: Remembering a hero and guardian angel

PAUL Thompson was a guardian angel.

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Nearly 300k applications not digitised at the Immigration Department causing excessive delays

THOUSANDS are still waiting to be processed by the Department of Immigration because their applications were not transferred to the department’s digital system, Immigration Minister Alfred Sears revealed in the House of Assembly yesterday.

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Cable urges industry unity on URCA ‘budget travesty’

CABLE Bahamas is urging its rivals to join the battle against “this travesty in budget increases” for the sector’s regulator whose downtown Nassau headquarters it branded an “albatross”.

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Bran blasts ‘disrespectful’ Gov’t on $250k damages

AN ex-Democratic National Alliance (DNA) leader yesterday blasted it is “so disrespectful” for the Government to ignore repeated requests to settle his $250,000 Village Road roadworks damages claim.

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Gov’t’s $2.5m elevator cost ‘quite exceptional’

THE Bahamian Contractors Association’s (BCA) president says spending $2.5m to replace an elevator at the Government’s Cecil Wallace-Whitfield Centre is “quite exceptional”, and asked: “Is it made of gold?”

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Sears unveils plan for NIB rate increase

ALFRED Sears, Minister of Immigration and National Insurance announced that NIB rates will increase by 1.5 percent effective July 1.

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‘Homicide by manslaughter’ ruled in police shooting case

TWO officers were stunned after a jury returned a homicide by manslaughter finding yesterday at the end of an inquest into the death of two men killed by police near Cowpen Road on January 23, 2018.