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Higgs, Grant playing pivotal role in Big 12

A pair of Bahamian women basketball players have made an immediate impact on their programmes in an elite Division I power conference.

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Local experts take part alongside clinic director in webinar

LOCAL medical professionals will take part in a webinar this weekend alongside a senior official from Florida’s Cleveland Clinic.

Sexual assaults top criminal claims on cruise ships

ALLEGED sexual assault remains the most reported criminal activity on board cruise ships according to international statistics.

Figures reveal level of sexual assaults on cruise ships

ALLEGED sexual assault remains the most reported criminal activity on board cruise ships according to international year-end statistics.

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'Punished for being a bold, independent thinker'

MARVA Moxey, third child of Ed Moxey, creator of Jumbey Village, told those gathered to pay tribute to her 80-year-old father Friday night of the hardships the family suffered because they were Moxeys – particularly the children of the former PLP parliamentarian.

Thomas on a roll, Chisholm makes an impact

TAHNAJ Thomas set a season’s best strikeout total for the third time this season and continues to be the leading pitcher in the rotation for the Bristol Pirates. Thomas now has 42 strikeouts on the season to lead the Pirates and is seventh in the Ap

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Nesbitt and Sao Paolo take 2-1 series lead in NBB finals

NATIONAL team member David Nesbitt and his Paulistano Sao Paolo took a 2-1 series lead in the Novo Basquete Brasil (NBB) finals and moved one game closer to the league title.

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Lathaniel Bastian posts his second double double in three games

LATHANIEL Bastian recorded his second double double in three games and his sixth of the season for the Angelo State Rams men’s basketball programme.

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McCartney off to good start in Stampeders' 44-32 victory

KARL McCartney opened the Canadian Football League season where he left last year, as a special teams ace for the Calgary Stampeders.

FNM deputy: ‘Is Gov’t interfering with Baha Mar liquidators work?’

The Opposition’s deputy leader has questioned whether Prime Minister Perry Christie’s interventions with Baha Mar’s Chinese partners are “tantamount to interfering” with the responsibilities of the project’s joint provisional liquidators.

Izmirlian downbeat, but Gov’t is upbeat

Prime Minister Perry Christie’s meeting with Sarkis Izmirlian yesterday achieved “nothing substantial” in attempting to resolving the $3.5 billion Baha Mar dispute, with the latter again demanding that his Chinese partners negotiate in “good faith”.

Creditors seek $1.1m Dingman default verdict

Bahamian creditors abandoned by Jamie Dingman’s failed Nassau restaurant empire this week urged a New York federal court to grant a $1.113 million default judgment in their favour, after no defence was filed against their claim.

‘Double dipping’ Baha Mar staff being terminated

Baha Mar’s joint provisional liquidators are terminating employees who have been ‘double dipping’ by continuing to pocket a regular pay cheque despite finding another job.

Baha Mar contractors must be ‘made whole’

THE Attorney General yesterday said the Government was resolute that Bahamian contractors “are made whole” for work completed at Baha Mar, amid increasing anxiety over what the project’s newly-announced receivership will mean for local creditors.

Sports notes

THE Bankers Athletic Association is all set to open its 2016 Bankers Slow Pitch season in the Banker’s Field at the Baillou Hills Sporting Complex on Saturday.

‘Golden Sisters’ to mark 15th anniversary of Bahamas’ first gold medal in athletics

COME September 30, ‘Golden Girls’ 4 x 100 metre relay team of Eldece Clarke, Savatheda Fynes, Chandra Sturrup, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie and Pauline Davis-Thompson will celebrate their 15th anniversary of winning the Bahamas’ first gold medal in athletics at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.

Hilton deal ‘conflicted’ Gov’t over Baha Mar

The Government’s “conflict of interest” over the $200 million British Colonial Hilton expansion meant it should never have attempted to act as an impartial mediator in the Baha Mar dispute.

The sky ain't falling

I write in response to The Tribune’s editorial dated December 9, 2014, under the heading, “A failed economy and no accurate information.”

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Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival compilation CD released

DURING the month of July, the Bahamas National Festival Commission (BNFC) invited musicians from throughout country to enter their Junkanoo Carnival Song Competition. As a result, over 170 songs were submitted by established and aspiring Bahamian artists who produced new Bahamian music.

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Sarkis loses bid to buy $192m claims

The Supreme Court yesterday ruled it was legally impossible for Sarkis Izmirlian to acquire the rights to Baha Mar’s $192 million damages claim against the project’s contractor.