All results / Stories

Tease photo

Sports in brief

THE defending champions Career Building Lady Cheetahs and last year’s runners-up Bommer G Lady Operators took the opening game of their respective New Providence Women’s Basketball Association best-of-three semifinal series at the DW Davis Gym on Saturday night.

Scotia: 95% gone online amid ‘lousy’ service claim

SCOTIABANK (Bahamas) will this year test mobile banking technology capable of serving all Family Islands, its top executive said yesterday, with 95 percent of customer transactions now conducted online or at ABMs.

Tease photo

Former PM Christie: Drop in voters is a concern

FORMER Prime Minister Perry Christie lamented the low voter turnout on Election Day, saying the reports have concerned him.

Tease photo

Sports in brief

THE New Providence Basketball Association resumed its regular season play at the CI Gibson Gym over the weekend after taking a break for the Christmas holiday.

Man brought back to life after heart stops twice  - Complicated 10-hour surgery saves Cayman man's life -

CAYMAN ISLANDS – A 33-year-old man is breathing again, with a sigh of relief, after the Health City Cayman Islands medical team brought him back from the brink of death.Bjorn Ebanks’ heart stopped twice and he underwent CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscita

Tease photo

Baha Mar eyeing 15-20% job cuts

A Cabinet minister yesterday conceded it is “deeply concerning” that Baha Mar has delayed its re-opening amid plans to make “additional staffing reductions” that could result in hundreds losing their jobs. Dionisio D’Aguilar, pictured , minister of

The destruction of Jumbey village

The destruction of Jumbey village "NO, I can't believe it - that can't be true!" This was Coconut Grove MP's Ed Moxey's shocked reply in May 1974 when a news reporter called to ask what he thought of a report that government had planned to build a repli

New automated passport control unveiled at airport

GOVERNMENT and aviation officials yesterday announced the official launch of 20 new Automated Passport Control (APC) kiosks at the Lynden Pindling International Airport, which would allow for US-bound passengers to be processed “up to four times faster”.

Revived Mortgage Plan may assist ‘over 1,000’

The Government yesterday unveiled a revised Mortgage Relief Plan it believes could assist “upwards of 1,000 delinquent borrowers”, via a 20-25 per cent cut to monthly loan payments.

Tease photo

'Oversubscribed' AML offer attracts $10m

AML Foods yesterday confirmed Tribune Business’s Monday article by disclosing that its preference share issue had been oversubscribed by $2.5 million, adding that the extra sum would be used to boost cash flow by taking out short-term bank debt.

Tease photo

Insurers: Dorian losses increase to $1.5bn-$2bn

Estimates for Hurricane Dorian’s total insured losses were yesterday said to have increased to between $1.5bn to $2bn as the entire Bahamian industry was removed from international “review”. Anton Saunders, RoyalStar Assurance’s managing director, t

Too many questions still unanswered

I can only sum up the current affairs of BEC/BPL, as a fiasco.

Tease photo

Tough times - but people still gambling

DESPITE high inflation that has left many Bahamians scraping to make ends meet, people are still gambling, said one pioneer of the gaming industry.

Tease photo

Ayton and Suns top Pelicans 110-99 in Game 1 of series

DEANDRE Ayton and the Phoenix Suns dominated a physical game one in their series against the New Orleans Pelicans and the veteran centre said he likes the tone that has been set for the postseason.

Tease photo

Roker posts double double, X-Men rout Axemen 99-76

IN his final season with the St Francis Xavier X-Men, Azaro Roker had a long-awaited opportunity to return to the court amid the COVID-19 pandemic and bid farewell to the programme’s legendary coach.

Tease photo

‘The Promise’ delivers

“THE PROMISE” delivered, but it wasn’t enough to prevent his Arizona Wildcats from being the second ranked team to fall on day one of the 2017 Battle 4 Atlantis, presented by Bad Boy Mowers.

Tease photo

Government officials tour new critical care block

SENIOR government officials yesterday toured the new multi-million dollar critical care block at the Princess Margaret Hospital, which is expected to be turned over to the government in October and open for patients “shortly thereafter” according to hospital officials.

Tease photo

Zane making moves

Zane Knowles is looking to make an immediate impact in his adjustment to a new club, a powerhouse in the Greek Champions League.

Tease photo

Man gets 10 years for sex with 14-year-old

A Supreme Court judge has sentenced 32-year-old Alban Johnson to 10 years in jail for the statutory rape of a 14-year-old in May 2013.

Tease photo

‘We see NAIA membership in our short term future’

WHILE the College of the Bahamas will be transformed into the University of the Bahamas next week, everybody is waiting for the unveiling of its new Athletic Department.