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Ayton and Suns take 2-0 lead
PHOENIX (AP) — Chris Paul scored 28 points, including 14 in another spectacular fourth quarter, to lead the Phoenix Suns over the Dallas Mavericks 129-109 last night for a 2-0 lead in the Western Conference semifinals.
Tavario Miller and Zane Knowles in playoffs
Two Bahamian senior men’s national basketball team players got their postseasons off to successful starts.
Celebrating nurses after battling the pandemic
GRAND Bahama nurses were praised for their resilience and contributions to global health in the last three years during the official opening of Nurses Month in Freeport on Monday.
New NAD fees hailed as ‘lot less onerous’
The private aviation industry yesterday hailed the Nassau Development Company’s (NAD) alterations to the new fees imposed on it as “a lot less onerous” compared to what was originally proposed.
‘Entrenched reduction?’: Bad loans down $22m
The Central Bank is “holding off” in determining whether COVID-related loan delinquencies have peaked despite a $22.4m reduction in non-performing credit during the 2022 first quarter, its governor revealed yesterday.
Sands: Poor sacrificed ‘on tax efficiency altar’
The FNM’s chairman yesterday accused the Government of driving more Bahamian families into poverty, and sacrificing them “on the altar of tax efficiency”, by refusing to eliminate VAT on medicines and breadbasket foods.
Cases dating back to 2020 add nine more COVID deaths
COVID-19 deaths have risen by nine to 798 after a woman died of the disease in early April and health officials reclassified several other deaths that took place between August 2020 and June 2021.
Fredrick King Jr commits to Bluejays
Just over one month after he reopened his recruiting process, Fredrick King Jr committed to the Creighton Bluejays and will head to the Big East to begin his collegiate basketball career.
Ayton and Suns host Dallas tonight to start second round
THE NBA careers of Deandre Ayton and Luka Doncic will always be connected due to the 2018 Draft and the pair will meet in the postseason for the first time when their second round series begins tonight.
Jonquel Jones leads the Sun to preseason victory
IN her return to the WNBA, Jonquel Jones showed flashes of the dominance expected to come this season for the Connecticut Sun.
Gas stations hope for industry ‘modernising’
Gas station dealers are hoping the Government will either agree to a margin increase or “modernising” the industry’s structure, with a solution agreed before the 2022-2023 Budget is unveiled in just over three weeks’ time.
DIANE PHILLIPS: What it takes to breathe new life into historic Nassau
PARTS of this column first appeared nearly five years ago. Sadly, it remains all too relevant. The Tribune has agreed to re-run it today at my request in light of the Davis administration’s commitment to rescuing and resuscitating the historic city of Nassau.
Disney triples construction workforce promise to 300
Disney Cruise Line yesterday revealed it is near-tripling the number of construction jobs created by its Lighthouse Point project to 300 amid hopes that Eleuthera can attract up to $1bn in total investment over the next decade.
‘Creatures of evolution’: Digital firm to top $130m
A Bahamian digital payments provider yesterday predicted it will this year “top” the $130m worth of transactions it settled in 2021, and said of this shift: “This is not going to be the norm; it is the norm.”
Suns finish off Pelicans in Game 6
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Chris Paul has accomplished so many things in his 17 NBA seasons that it's nearly impossible to rank his Mount Rushmore moments.
Work permit clampdown in restaurants, construction
LABOUR Director Robert Farquharson says his department has denied labour certificates in all restaurant manager applications and in the vast majority of applications for construction site supervisors and project managers since September, preventing the applicants from getting work permits.
Two Bahamian players star in MLB game: Marlins’ Chisholm, Nats’ Fox
THEY were members of the same International Signing Class in 2015 and now seven years later, Jazz Chisholm Jr and Lucius Fox made Bahamian baseball history once again at the major league level.
‘Hope and pray’: Food, energy cost hike may last three years
Bahamians were yesterday urged to “hope and pray” that the World Bank’s forecast of high food and energy costs lasting three years does not come true, with cooking oil and other staples increasing by up to 80 percent in recent months.
‘No more blight’ on Rum Cay’s revival
A Supreme Court judge says it is “difficult to digest” that the Prime Minister’s Office would assert a 15-acre Rum Cay land parcel was Crown Land when this totally contradicted evidence from the Government’s own surveyors.
Judge: ‘Difficult to digest’ Gov’ts Rum Cay claims
A Supreme Court judge says it is “difficult to digest” that the Prime Minister’s Office would assert a 15-acre Rum Cay land parcel was Crown Land when this totally contradicted evidence from the Government’s own surveyors.