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‘No one cares about the women’ on national basketball team
AFTER all of the sacrifices made and the hard work that they put in, head coach Donillo ‘Donnie’ Culmer said he’s disappointed that the Bahamas Basketball Federation pulled the plug on their trip to Mexico for the Centrobasket tournament.
Concerns that hotel tax breaks unduly exploited
A BAHAMIAN businessman has voiced concerns that foreign investors are unduly exploiting Hotels Encouragement Act incentives to obtain tax breaks on construction materials for large vacation rental properties.
VAT’s ‘real’ 15% rise since January’s cut
The Davis administration last night said real VAT revenues increased by 15.1 percent year-over-year following the New Year’s Day rate cut with the deficit for the 2022-2023 fiscal year’s first quarter slashed by $116.4m.
Lightbourne and Dames lead KCKCC to upset over no.19 Pirates
THE Kansas Community College Blue Devils have opened the season with one of the most difficult schedules in all of junior college basketball and got their first upset win over a ranked team led by its talented Bahamian duo.
Boxing team heading off
WITH the 27-member team already reduced because of the lack of funding, Bahamas Boxing Federation President Vincent Strachan said he’s confident the remaining 10 boxers will get the opportunity to travel this week to Kissimmee, Florida.
Business destroyed by Dorian is ruined again by Nicole
MEDIOUS Edgecombe, the owner of Coopers Town Marine, is in good spirits despite his business being destroyed by Hurricane Nicole after barely recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian.
220 Legendary jobs for ‘hazardous’ site
An $80m marina investment for southern New Providence is pledging to transform “a hazardous location” blighted by trash dumps and stolen boats via a project that will create 220 permanent jobs at full build-out.
Team Bahamas eliminated
Team Bahamas was eliminated from FIBA World Cup ‘23 contention, but a pair of resilient efforts at home led to a two-game split in the latest window of Americas Qualifiers.
‘Buddy’ Hield and Pacers off to surprising start
CHAVANO “Buddy” Hield’s sixth 20-point game of the year led the Indiana Pacers to a win on the road for what most NBA pundits have deemed a surprising start to the 2022-23 season.
McFall, McCoy off to good start in NCAA Div. ii
BOTH Johnathan McFall and Malachi McCoy got their senior seasons off to promising starts as the NCAA Division II basketball season tipped off last weekend in early season tournament play.
Bahamas secure hard-fought win over Panama
THE Bahamas men’s national team played with a lot of heart and grit right to the end, securing a hard fought 83-79 victory over Panama in the first of two games at home this weekend as the FIBA Americas World Cup Qualifier continued Friday night at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium.
$73m ‘zero carbon’ project targets 36k annual visitors
A $73m investment is aiming to attract 36,000 guests per year at full build-out of a “zero carbon” residential and yacht community on an Exuma cay located just three miles from Georgetown.
Shamar Burrows and Tigers nationally ranked at No. 10
AFTER the first two weeks of the season, Shamar Burrows and the Dalhousie Tigers are nationally ranked at no.10 in Canada’s U Sports men’s basketball power rankings.
Grand Lucayan sale failure gives investors bad signal
GRAND Bahama’s Chamber of Commerce president yesterday voiced fears that the repeated failures to sell the Grand Lucayan resort will discourage other investors from coming to the island.
STATESIDE: Watching the election
FOR months, headlines have screamed out warnings that the future of American democracy was at stake in Tuesday’s elections.
Nicole: Tourism suffers no ‘overwhelming shrinkage’
The Bahamian tourism industry has not suffered a “material” reduction in bookings and guests despite now-Hurricane Nicole striking Grand Bahama and Abaco, a senior hotelier said yesterday.
FIBA World Cup ‘23 Americas Qualifiers postponed
WITH the impending impact of Tropical Storm Nicole on The Bahamas, FIBA and the Bahamas Basketball Federation announced the postponement of the latest window of the World Cup 2023 Americas Qualifiers.
Junior college basketball prospects soak up early season success in US
BAHAMIAN basketball prospects have teamed up at the junior college level across the United States and have experienced early season success with their respective programmes.
WEDNESDAY UPDATES: Hurricane Nicole
Speaking this evening, Acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper said in Eleuthera, Andros and New Providence “schools and universities will resume classes tomorrow (Thursday) and all government workers are asked to return to duty.
No resolution over food price control ‘stalemate’
The Bahamian food distribution industry was last night said to have reached a “stalemate” over efforts to strike a price control deal with the Government via a 1,000-strong product list designed to “more than half-way” meet its demands.
