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Minnis to discuss marital rape laws and marijuana in Cabinet meeting
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis will devote a day of Cabinet meetings to discuss marijuana and marital rape with his ministers, his Press Secretary Anthony Newbold said.
US ambassador candidate must be renominated by Trump
THE hotelier who was nominated to be United States ambassador to the Bahamas will have to be re-nominated after the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations sent his submission back to President Donald Trump last week.The re-submission provision come
EDITORIAL: Changing times and marijuana
A decade ago, The Tribune would have refuted, rebuked and shunned the suggestion of marijuana being decriminalised faster than the speed of light could travel. But the culture is changing. The conversation has started locally, regionally and internationally. We can no longer pretend the issue is not on the table. It is time to give careful consideration to where The Bahamas stands and how we proceed from here.
Marijuana - we need the debate
TWO Cabinet ministers yesterday conceded that marijuana use has had a “devastating” impact on communities in the country, but agreed the Bahamas has reached a point where discussions must take place focusing on whether decriminalising the drug should be a consideration for the government.
Mother weeps as she and son denied bail in firearms case
A 48-year-old woman wept openly in court yesterday after she and her son were remanded to prison to await trial over two firearms charges stemming from a gun seizure last week. Mary Ferguson and her 26-year-old son Shedlock Bain appeared before Chie
YASMINE COOKE - my devastation over drug arrest lies
Beauty queen hits back at fake news slur
REIGNING Miss Universe Bahamas Yasmine Cooke is hitting out at a fake online story which claimed she had been arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport for attempting to smuggle cocaine.
Potty – going to jail over a joint
NO reasonable person can deny the Bahamas must scrutinise laws that criminalise people possessing small amounts of marijuana, Foreign Affairs Minister Darren Henfield said Friday.
What Aidan taught me and John Hopkins
Hundreds gathered in St Anslem’s Catholic Church on Friday for the funeral of two-year-old cancer victim Aidan Carron.
Gov't to refocus NHI on $60m critical care
THE Government is planning to refocus National Health Insurance (NHI) on catastrophic care, believing a $60 million budget “could do an awful lot if properly managed”.Dr Duane Sands, minister of health, told Tribune Business that he and the NHI Autho
Marijuana issue ‘not on agenda’
HEALTH Minister Dr Duane Sands reiterated yesterday that legalising marijuana is not on the Minnis administration’s agenda.
Three charged over $1.6m marijuana seizure
TWO Bahamian men and a Jamaican national were arraigned in a Magistrate’s Court yesterday in connection with a million-dollar drug bust that took place in waters off South Andros last week.
‘Send illegals home by end of this week’
EMPLOYERS in the country have the remainder of this week to send all illegal employees home, Immigration Minister Brent Symonette warned yesterday as he signalled the Minnis administration’s “aggressive” campaign to clamp down on private businesses in the coming days.
91 caught in migrant operations
THE ROYAL Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) apprehended nearly 100 illegal migrants in three separate incidents over the holiday weekend.
Man held after drug seizure
POLICE in Eleuthera arrested a man after the seizure of a quantity of dangerous drugs on Wednesday.
EDITORIAL: We must have a vision for our country
Successful businesses nail down a vision of exactly what they want to be and work toward achieving that.
Three held over $1.6m drug seizure
THREE men are in police custody in connection with the discovery of $1.6 million worth of marijuana in Andros on Thursday.
Father Palacious issues apology for women's dress comments
ANGLICAN Archdeacon James Palacious issued an apology on Friday for his recent statements about the impact of how women dress, admitting his words "could very well be seen as victim blaming".
Woman stabbed at home
A woman is in hospital after being stabbed during a domestic dispute on Wednesday evening, police reported.
Sentence cut by a third for former drug dealer who murdered rival
A FORMER drug dealer sentenced to effectively 60 years in prison for murdering a rival drug dealer in order to protect his “turf” almost 20 years ago has had his sentence shortened by almost one-third by the Court of Appeal to reflect a more “appropriate” sentence.
IAN FERGUSON: Better ways for corporate giving
PEOPLE often refer to Christmas as the season of giving. It is a time when most corporate donors ‘show their shape’ and give to charitable organisations, churches, the homeless and other non-profit entities.We trace the spirit of giving to sacred scr