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The road to recovery

Former MS patient gets new lease on life thanks to stem cell treatment

EDITORIAL: Come now, Mr Roberts, surely you can’t be serious

THE public is burdened today with more of PLP Chairman Bradley Robert’s superficial thinking and truth bending. In a news release issued yesterday, he warned former Baha Mar director Dionisio d’Aguilar about mixing politics with his former role as a hotel developer.

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US tourist arrested on suspicion of drug possession

AN American tourist was arrested on Saturday for alleged possession of drugs.

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WORLD VIEW: Is the US making a stick to beat its own back over banking?

Caribbean governments have rightly focused on the severe consequences for their countries of the withdrawal of correspondent banking relations from regional banks by international banks, particularly those located in the United States.

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Man accused of role in drug smuggling plot granted bail

A MAN awaiting trial concerning his alleged involvement in a $600,000 cocaine smuggling plot was granted bail in the Supreme Court yesterday.

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Man detained over gun and drugs find

A Freeport man was arrested on Thursday for possession of firearms, ammunition and dangerous drugs, police reported.

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Man detained on suspicion of possession of marijuana

OFFICERS from the Mobile Division took an adult male into custody after finding him in possession of a quantity of dangerous drugs on Tuesday.

EDITORIAL: Again we ask PM Christie - whose side are you on?

ON MONDAY, we posed the question here to Prime Minister Christie: Whose side are you on - the Bahamas or Beijing?

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MICHELLE MILLER MOTIVATIONALS: Live an ordered life

As a life coach and therapist I find that the greatest struggle many clients bring to a session is not having an answer to the question of what they really want.

INSIGHT: The law is there to be used against criminals, not at political discretion

Cases of criminal misconduct against parliamentarians have not been prosecuted and the government has made no effort to confiscate the proceeds of crime from perpetrators, former Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Thompson reveals in the latest part of his weekly series.

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13 in custody after suspected drugs found

THIRTEEN people - eight men and five women - were turned over to police officials by Royal Bahamas Defence Force Marines on Friday after a search uncovered suspected drugs on Friday afternoon at the Port Department.

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Cat Island police arrest two for drugs possession

POLICE in Cat Island have arrested a man and a woman following separate marijuana seizures on Thursday.

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Police hunting armed robbery suspects

POLICE are looking for the suspects responsible for two separate armed robberies that occurred on Tuesday.

Cutting the hills must be stopped

OVER the past 30 years, we have seen the catastrophe wrought on Haiti due to their denuding the forestation on their part of the island of Hispaniola.

Woman jailed for 14 years for part in robbing web shop manager

A WOMAN was sentenced to 14 years in prison on Tuesday for having a role in the robbery of a web shop manager in Long Island.

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Man jailed over illegal firearms, three others plead not guilty

IT was not a happy birthday for a Chippingham resident who was sentenced yesterday to five years in prison for two illegal firearms found by police during a house raid in Long Island.

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INSIGHT: Undercover operations and ‘need to know’ in the fight against crime

Excellent regional law enforcement co-operation sometimes meant politicians were kept in the dark about covert planning, former Assistant Police Commissioner Paul Thompson says.

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Colombian pair accused of cocaine smuggling plot are denied bail

TWO Colombian men were denied bail and remanded to prison yesterday after they were arraigned for their alleged involvement in a $600,000 cocaine smuggling plot.

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Two jailed for taking part in murder plot

TWO men were sentenced to 30 years in prison yesterday after a Supreme Court judge condemned their “casual” acceptance to involve themselves in a murder plot.

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Lowe’s introduces new hair care line to the Bahamas

Lowe’s Wholesale Drug Agencies last week hosted a special event to launch a new line of hair care here in the Bahamas.