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Latest Bahamian talent holds court at Holland College

HOLLAND College has been a pipeline through which Bahamian talent can access higher education in recent years via a number of sports including football, volleyball, soccer and basketball.

BEC saddled by $86m fuel debt

THE Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) currently owes its major fuel supplier more than $86 million, its executive chairman revealed yesterday, adding that the monopoly energy supplier was paying Shell West excess of $18 million a month “just to keep going”.

Cruise giant in $3,000 annual PI seabed deal

Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines secured a second lease from the Minnis administration allowing it to rent three acres of seabed off Paradise Island for just $3,000 per annum, it can be revealed.

Bahamas set to face Canada in FIBA World Cup 2023 Qualifiers

The Bahamas senior men’s national basketball team is set to return to action in less than two weeks when they face Canada in the first window of the FIBA World Cup 2023 Qualifiers.

Robinson, McCowan help Fever beat Jones and Sun, snap 12-game skid

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Danielle Robinson tied her career high with 19 points, Teaira McCowan had 13 points, 12 rebounds and two blocks, and the Indiana Fever beat the Connecticut Sun 73-67 on Saturday to snap a franchise single-season record 12-game losing streak.

December arrivals down 95% on 2019

The Bahamas saw total visitor arrivals for December 2020 slump by 95 percent year-over-year despite the re-opening of its two mega resort destinations and other major hotels.

Sports in brief

THE Baptist Sports Council completed the first week of the 2013 Coca-Cola Softball Classic in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Saturday with the Bahama Island Baptist Association (BIBA) making the most noise.

FACE TO FACE: My father, the hero

WHEN I was 14 years old, I had the opportunity to participate in the filming of a Hollywood movie right here in Nassau. Gerard Depardieu was the main actor – a French father who took his daughter, played by Katherine Heigl, on vacation to The Bahamas

Stingers dethrone Giants, 95-94

KEMSEY Sylvetre may have saved his best game in the postseason for the last as he helped the PJ’s Stingers dethrone the defending champions Commonwealth Bank Giants.

‘CRIME’S DOWN - NOT BY COVID’: Police chief insists lockdowns not key to reduced offences

POLICE Commissioner Paul Rolle yesterday credited a 16 percent fall in overall crime to the efforts of his force and not a windfall from the months of lockdown enforced on the nation.

Just 15% of insolvent broker’s assets located

An insolvent Bahamian broker/dealer’s liquidators have recovered just 15 per cent of its identified assets, while clawing back minimal sums from its former principal and overdrawn clients.

A COMIC'S VIEW: Unpaid bills and political scandals - what’s new?

What a week of revelations this has been.

Bahamas 'rises from captives extinction'

The Bahamas has “risen from extinction” in captive insurance, a leading industry player said yesterday, with this nation’s growth rate over the past three years “exceeding any other jurisdiction”.

‘Nation builder’ retires from tourism role

AFTER more than 30 years of service in the tourism sector, Jeritzen Edwards-Outten has retired from the Ministry of Tourism in Grand Bahama.

Darville points to $50m investment across GB

MINISTER for Grand Bahama Dr Michael Darville has highlighted nearly $50m in government capital projects and upgrades underway throughout the island of Grand Bahama.

‘Buddy’ and Bahamas ready to face Venezuela

Although they have yet to “finalise” the team, head coach Chris DeMarco said the Bahamas coaching staff will select a “solid” 12-man roster coming out of this week’s training camp to play against Venezuela at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium on Thursday night.

Eric Wiberg – New Providence: 60 land accidents

WHETHER planes touched wingtips, men walked into propellers, bombers collided, planes were lost in microbursts, or had training gunnery mishaps, Nassau, Windsor and Oakes air fields and adjacent waters claimed many lives. More than half of all accidents in the colony – 80 of 150 – took place at or near the air fields and New Providence. This article deals with the 55 accidents that happened or ended up on land. In the three years from January 1943 131 aviators and a Bahamian family of three were killed by military aircraft in New Providence and its waters, with 83 rescued, and those fatalities recovered buried on Farrington Road. Pre-existing Oakes Field, used for training, saw nine crashes and most of the 25 unallocated, and Windsor Field, still in use, had 21.

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