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National high school soccer champions soak up spotlight
A goal on a header from Charles Allan was all that the Lyford Cay International School needed to clinch the Sam Haven senior boys’ national high school soccer championship title. It took one extra penalty shot for the Lucaya International to take the girls’ title to Grand Bahama.
Strachan returned as president of the Amateur Boxing Federation
AFTER about two decades away from the administration of the sport, Vincent Strachan has been returned as president of the Amateur Boxing Federation of the Bahamas.During the annual general meeting and election of officers on Saturday at the Thomas A
Near-30% pt occupancy rise 'good for us, bad for Freeport'
A MAJOR Freeport hotel says its near-30 percentage point increase in annual occupancy rates is “good for us but bad for the destination”, which needs to be “made relevant again”.Magnus Alnebeck, Pelican Bay’s managing director, told Tribune Business
Bahamas to send message: Banks 'cannot launder cash'
THE Central Bank wants to tell the world that the Bahamas’ international banking sector “cannot launder cash”, with virtually all institutions having ceased taking such deposits.The regulator, unveiling the results of an anti-money laundering/counter
195 bodies in morgue - why fees must go up
ONE hundred and ninety-five dead bodies are being kept at Princess Margaret Hospital’s Morgue as of Wednesday – triple the number the facility was built to maintain, according to Health Minister Dr Duane Sands.
A COMIC'S VIEW: The irony in transparency as Prime Minister travels
irony noun the expression of one’s meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect. “‘Don’t go overboard with the gratitude,’ he rejoined with heavy irony.”
Championship matchups are all set for tomorrow
WE have our final pairings to decide the 2018 Sam Haven National Soccer Championships, presented by the IL Cares Foundation.
BPL: Shell bid process ‘transparent and fair’
BAHAMAS Power & Light’s (BPL) top executive yesterday defended Shell’s selection as its preferred generation partner as “transparent and fair”, revealing 50 per cent of bids offered long-term solutions.
Butterfield names top Bahamas executive
BUTTERFIELD Trust (Bahamas) has named Craig Barley as its managing director, with overall responsibility for the management and development of its business in this jurisdiction.Originally from the UK, Mr Barley was most recently chief executive of La
BPL: Near 90 renewable applications approved
JUST under 90 small scale renewable generation (SSRG) applications have been approved to-date, Bahamas Power and Light’s (BPL) chief executive said yesterday.Whitney Heastie added that the utility’s options outside New Providence were “wide open”, wh
Blockchain to solve Bahamas’ ‘major workforce waste’
THE Government’s first-ever use of blockchain technology will tackle what was yesterday branded “an enormous waste of human capital”.
Semi-finals set, eight teams remain after official draw
The semi-final matchups are all set following the official draw and just eight teams remain to vye for the national soccer championship in their respective divisions.
Greater power to protect witnesses
THE government passed the Criminal Evidence Witness Anonymity Amendment Bill yesterday to allow for witness identities in criminal proceedings to be shielded and only revealed in screening by a magistrate, magistrate panel or judge in a bid to clamp down on acts of witness tampering.
'Miss Florida' denies drug den role
A SENIOR police officer yesterday testified how the boyfriend of internet sensation Handerea “Miss Florida” Rolle tried to flush a quantity of marijuana down a toilet the day police raided a home they were in two months ago.
FNM must turn the tide
IN a few short weeks the FNM administration, led by the Hon Prime Minister, Hubert A Minnis (FNM-Killarney), along with other Bahamians, will be celebrating one year since that party’s return to office. They have made a few missteps and the PM has demonstrated that he is incapable of coherently and decisively articulating and initiating public policy initiatives. It is to be remembered, however, that while he, the PM that is, is regarded as a good medical doctor, his leadership style leaves much, in my view, to be desired.
Hurricanes get 3-0 win over Marlins in quarter-finals
The top overall seed among the senior boys looked like the class of the division as the Samuel P Haven 2018 National Soccer Championships, presented by the IL Cares Foundation, kicked off yesterday.
Nationals: Top junior golfers emerge
THE top junior golfers in the island nation emerged following the results of the Bahamas Golf Federation’s Junior Nationals.
WORLD VIEW – The Commonwealth: what’s in it for the small states?
Writing in the British Guardian Newspaper on April 10, my colleague, professor Phillip Murphy, the director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, recalled that for those who campaigned for Britain to leave the European Union, “depicting the Commonwealth as a huge potential trading opportunity for the UK was a useful fiction”.
INSIGHT: Time for a radical overhaul of our tax system
Bahamians continue to suffocate under the weight of hefty utilities bills, an unnecessarily high cost of living and daunting bureaucratic hurdles to making their own way in the world. The last thing they want to hear is the government intends to oppress them further with the burden of new taxes.
Blunder after blunder by the FNM govt
POPULARITY of a sitting government has always to be crucial to their well being any politician disregarding a poll which concludes what the Domain Poll did has to be seriously conscious that the public perception - public gratification - public support has diminished appreciably actually to a level where if there was an election it would be hard for the sitting political party to win.
