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Event for displaced children postponed after official tests positive for COVID-19

The welcome home celebration planned for Friday for the 30 displaced children at the Grand Bahama Children’s Home has been postponed after an official travelling in the delegation for the event tested positive for COVID-19.

Industrial Tribunal in Grand Bahama opens new premises

The Industrial Tribunal in Grand Bahama opened its new premises at Freeport Insurance Building on Friday.

Three face fraud charges

THREE women were charged separately with fraud in the Freeport Magistrate's Court on Friday.

Trump, stricken by COVID-19, taken to military hospital

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump appeared in public Friday evening for the first time since being stricken by COVID-19, boarding his Marine One helicopter for a flight to a military hospital as the virus that has killed more than 205,000 Americans spread to the highest reaches of the U.S. government.

High-visibility operation by police in GB

GRAND Bahama police were out on the streets in full force yesterday as part of a nationwide police operation launched to increase visibility to deter crime and to ensure COVID-19 protocols are being followed.

New TV project for Grand Bahamian

GRAND Bahamian Raquel Beneby Hart did not let COVID-19 avert her plans of launching and developing a new television project, and creating a platform to connect with audiences through innovative, transformative, and empowering television shows.

Donald and Melania Trump test positive for COVID-19

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump have tested positive for the coronavirus, the president tweeted early Friday.

BTC celebrates small business importance

The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) is celebrating October as Small Business Month to highlight the importance of its 8,000-plus clients in this category to the local economy.

Manning the gates

INTERCESSORS and prayer leaders from around the nation are the being called on to “man the gates” once again this weekend.

Village Pub manager is shot dead outside bar

A MAN was shot on Tuesday night and found unresponsive on the sidewalk outside a local bar.

MAKING HISTORY: Bahamas newest member of ISF

THE Bahamas made history by becoming the newest member of the International School Sports Federation.

‘Scrap GB power tax concessions’

A LOCAL civic leader says the Bahamas Government should revoke tax concessions to the GB Port Authority following its approval to the GB Power Company of an increase in power fees.

MSC donates food supplies to help feed Grand Bahama

A Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) vessel arrived at Freeport Harbour on Monday afternoon with a donation of food supplies to the National Food Task Force for distribution on Grand Bahama.

Happy Olympic anniversary Pauline Davis-Thompson

IT took her fifth and final Olympic Games in 2000 in Sydney, Australia for Pauline Davis-Thompson to ascend the podium to finally secure her elusive individual track and field medal on the world’s biggest sporting stage.

Residents 'happy' GBPC storm recovery charge suspended – but will continue to fight implementation

ALTHOUGH “happy” that a storm recovery and stabilisation (SRS) charge by the Grand Bahama Power Company has been further suspended, the Coalition of Concerned Citizens pledged to continue to fight its implementation.

Man accused of illegal gun possession

A FREEPORT man was charged with illegal gun and ammunition possession in the Freeport Magistrate’s Court this week.

Bahamian redneck culture

In a Ramble Bahamas write-up entitled The Contract, authors Jessica Dawson and Tracey Thompson wrote that between 1943 and 1965, approximately 30,000 Bahamians worked on The Contract in the United States. In the early 1940s, the Bahamian economy, particularly in New Providence, was in complete shambles, owing to World War II.

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