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Consider alternatives to opioids to manage pain after surgery

(BPT) - If you’re having surgery, you can expect to be sore and uncomfortable for a few days, whether you’re recovering at home or in the hospital. But it’s best to limit opioids or avoid them altogether, opting for alternatives to manage pain and di

Minister pledges 'no retreat' over breadbasket reforms

THE Minister of Health has pledged to stand firm on the proposed ‘breadbasket’ food reforms, ruling out a similar retreat to that made a year ago over “sugary sweet drinks”.Dr Duane Sands, minister of health, told Tribune Business that the Government

‘Dealer’ dies in police gun battle

POLICE shot and killed a man suspected of perpetrating a drug deal after he opened fire on officers attempting to apprehend him just off Cedar Way, near Carmichael Road, yesterday.

WORLD VIEW: Structure not ad-hoc agendas key to US-Caribbean relations

MUCH has been said about the government of the United States of America cutting off aid to countries which do not support that country’s position in international organisations.

EDITORIAL: Man tries to crack marijuana’s secret

LAST year Jamaican scientist Dr Henry Lowe made history when his drug, developed from cannabis, to treat acute myeloid leukemia was granted “orphan-drug” designation by the United States Food and Drug Administration.

Sentences quashed of airport workers

THE COURT of Appeal has quashed the sentences of two Nassau Flight Services employees previously convicted for possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply and conspiracy to commit that offence concerning a 2016 incident at the Lynden Pindling International Airport.

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McPhee family finds triumph in the face of adversity

Brigitte McPhee remembers vividly the day her two-year-old son Andrew McPhee Jr began having seizures.“I handed him over to his teacher at his day care and she noticed his eyes rolling over. I then felt him shaking in my arms. Immediately I knew some

Dames: We must identify the causes of crime

MINISTER of National Security Marvin Dames recently said that over the past decade, escalating crime and violence numbers have presented challenges to the economic and social development of The Bahamas.“Much of the violence and crime that we are seei

POLICE ADVICE: Showing by example will help our children become adults to be proud of

Raising your children to be law abiding citizens is one of your biggest responsibilities as a parent. This will help you make sure your children do not follow the wrong path in life.

Two women arrested and shooting suspect hunted after separate incidents

POLICE arrested two women after seizing drugs and and a gun and are hunting a shooting suspect following two separate incidents yesterday, according to Assistant Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander.In the first incident, officers responded to re

A COMIC'S VIEW: The FNM government and the marijuana legalisation debate

WHILE appearing as a guest on the talk show “Political Review” with host Quincy Parker, last Sunday on Guardian Radio, Attorney General Carl Bethel said he will not support the legalisation or decriminalisation of marijuana in The Bahamas.

Recreational marijuana and medicinal marijuana

WAS anyone else around here and the Islands during the early 1980’s with the Drug Scourge through those long days, months, years to recover?

Jamaican QC criticises Interception of Communications Bill

A JAMAICAN Queen’s counsel has criticised the Interception of Communications Bill for allowing the attorney general’s involvement in the process of obtaining warrants for intercepting a person’s communications.Michael Hylton, a former solicitor gener

'Iggy' and CARIFTA team visit Temple Christian

THE Flow CARIFTA Games Bahamas 2018 team was at the Temple Christian School on Tuesday to continue its campaign’s message to be “The Best You” in line with the theme of the games: “Faster, Further, Higher.” The students were encouraged to be student

How flu changes within the human body may hint at future global trends

(THE CONVERSATION) – Evolution is usually very slow, a process of change that takes thousands or millions of years to see.But for influenza, evolution is fast – and deadly. Flu viruses change rapidly to escape the body’s defenses. Every few years, n

Doctors Hospital welcomes first baby girl and baby boy of 2018

Doctors Hospital could think of no better way to begin the new year than welcoming two new babies into the world. Through its partnership with Lowe’s Wholesale Drug Agencies and Johnson and Johnson, Doctors Hospital recently presented the first born

Everything you should know about HPV

According to the National Cancer Institute, human papillomaviruses (HPVs) are a group of more than 200 related viruses. More than 40 HPV types can be easily spread through direct sexual contact, from the skin and mucous membranes of infected people

30 held in US-backed raids

POLICE arrested about 30 people during an early morning operation in southwest New Providence yesterday, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clayton Fernander said.

Woman jailed for smuggling drugs in a condom

A 38-year-old Bahamian woman was sentenced to a year and a half in prison yesterday for attempting to smuggle almost ten ounces of cocaine into the United States earlier this week by concealing the drugs in a condom inserted in her vagina.

Henfield vision of council to tackle immigration

THE failure of successive governments to train civilian leaders for the effective management of military forces has resulted in a lack of strategic vision, and contributed to the thriving nature of illegal immigration and other maritime law-breaking,

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