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Ayton: This is just the beginning

Deandre Ayton’s memorable 2021 postseason run came to an end as his Phoenix Suns missed an opportunity to make franchise history in the NBA Finals.

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Willis Mackey Jr signs with Mulhouse Basket Agglomeration in France

Willis Mackey Jr has relocated to a new club in France’s Nationale Masculine 1 (NM1) League.

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Airbnbs ‘choke off’ local rental market

Exuma’s Chamber of Commerce president yesterday warned that the island’s soaring vacation property success was “choking off” Bahamian access to affordable rental units.

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Super Value fighting price hikes ‘as long as we can’

Super Value’s president yesterday pledged to hold-off food price increases as long as possible, but reiterated that eight to ten percent rises by Christmas “is not a prediction but a fact”.

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Ayton and the Suns miss out as Bucks win championship

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Giannis Antetokounmpo ended one of the greatest NBA Finals ever with 50 points and a championship Milwaukee waited 50 years to win again.

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Shark Week episode to feature New Providence

South-west New Providence will feature heavily in a Shark Week episode set to be screened during the second week in July, reaching potentially up to 88m homes in 224 countries.

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INSIGHT: He’s no longer centre stage but the bite’s still there

As far as former Cabinet Minister Loftus Roker is concerned, “anything” is better at governing The Bahamas than the current Minnis Administration.

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Man still missing despite 100-hour search by RBDF

THE Royal Bahamas Defence Force said it has spent 100 hours searching for a man missing at sea after he fell off a jet ski during a collision with a boat on July 11.

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A matter of life and debt

In the third of a four-part series, Hubert Edwards warns that in the absence of greater growth The Bahamas will be borrowing for some time to come . . .

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Izaak Bastian prepares for Olympic debut

IZAAK Bastian said despite the normal Covid-19 restrictions that he’s had to endure for the past year at Florida State University, everything is going as expected for his debut at the 2020 Olympic Games.

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17 new deaths announced as COVID surge continues, 100 new cases on Saturday

THE Bahamas recorded 401 COVID-19 cases from July 11 to July 17, including 100 cases on Saturday alone, the highest number of cases recorded in a day since last October.

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AML’s Charles Saunders plan ready by early 2022

AML Foods will have “mapped out” plans to develop a new shopping centre off Charles Saunders Highway, anchored by its Solomon’s “neighbourhood” food store concept, by early 2022 at the latest.

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Tourism chief ‘praying’ for vaccination uptick

THE Bahamas Hotel and Tourism Association’s (BHTA) president yesterday said he is “praying” more persons become vaccinated at the next available opportunity as it is the “only way to combat COVID spikes”.

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HUBERT EDWARDS: A matter of life and debt

Given the need for growth, let us consider where we are.

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Bucks edge Suns 123-119 to take 3-2 lead in NBA Finals

PHOENIX (AP) — Jrue Holiday seized his chance to give the Milwaukee Bucks the lead in the NBA Finals.

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AML Foods targets $12m sales at new Freeport site

AML Foods is targeting $12m in annual sales from its new Solomon’s Freeport location, its top executive revealed yesterday, despite it being two-thirds the size of its former Queen’s Highway site.

Radio over-saturation ‘will always be concern’

A top regulator yesterday said concerns about the Bahamian radio broadcasting market being over-saturated “will always be around even if we had 50 percent of the stations we have now”.

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17 new COVID related deaths reported

MINISTRY of Health officials have reported 17 new COVID-19 related deaths including several cases that were previously under investigation and are now reclassified.

Employer to still pay for staff COVID tests

A prominent Bahamian merchant yesterday backed away from requiring employees to pay for their own COVID-19 tests and said it will comply with an Act that requires it to foot the bill.

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‘Give a date for Straw Market’

STRAW vendors are once again calling for the government to provide a timeline on the re-opening of the Nassau Straw Market, saying it’s “unfair” that other tourism businesses are allowed to operate while their place of employment remains closed.