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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.

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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.

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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.

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‘World’s in worst state that I have ever seen’

Super Value’s principal has voiced hope that “we can do better than” the World Bank’s dire prediction of high food prices lasting for three years, but conceded: “The world is in the worst state I’ve ever seen.”

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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.

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‘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.”

Traditional finance providers have ‘duty’ to embrace crypto

Deltec Bank & Trust’s chairman yesterday asserted that traditional financial services providers have a “duty” to help innovators in the digital assets and crypto currency space.

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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.

Aliv: Third mobile player will damage consumers

Aliv is urging regulators to stop viewing the mobile market as “silos” in its approach to over-the-top (OTT) services such as What’s App, while warning that permitting a third market entrant could undermine investment in 5G technology.

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Celebrating Earth Day at Botanical Gardens

THE Botanical Gardens proved the perfect space for students and their teachers to celebrate Earth Day.

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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.

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Teenage thief ordered to pay back victim after car raid

A TEENAGER was yesterday ordered to compensate a woman whose car he broke into last month and stole over $1,000 worth of items.

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Ayton, Suns look to end series tonight

Deandre Ayton said his Phoenix Suns refocused in one particular area to take a 3-2 lead in their best-of-seven first round series against the New Orleans Pelicans.

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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.

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$400,000 donated to encourage backyard farming

THE Agricultural Development Organisation and Solutions AE donated nearly $400,000 to churches to promote backyard farming yesterday.

‘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.

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‘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.

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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.

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‘Excellent’ results in crime fight

A HIGH-powered rifle capable of firing 200 rounds of ammunition, more than $35,000 and nearly 85 lbs of marijuana were some of the substantive discoveries of the Royal Bahamas Police Force’s Operation Ceasefire.