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Turning on family 'easier said than done'
EVERY day, without fail, Bahamian men are paraded in public, doing the Bank Lane "shuffle", as they wait for the justice system to determine their fate.
THE REWARDS OF CORRUPTION
By PACO NUNEZ Tribune News Editor THE big story last week was obviously the back-and-forth claims of visa fraud between the two major parties. First, FNM Senator Dion Foulkes told of a Foreign Affairs officer who claimed her former boss, Fox Hill MP Fred
THE REWARDS OF CORRUPTION
By PACO NUNEZ Tribune News Editor THE big story last week was obviously the back-and-forth claims of visa fraud between the two major parties. First, FNM Senator Dion Foulkes told of a Foreign Affairs officer who claimed her former boss, Fox Hill MP Fred
THE REWARDS OF CORRUPTION
By PACO NUNEZ Tribune News Editor THE big story last week was obviously the back-and-forth claims of visa fraud between the two major parties. First, FNM Senator Dion Foulkes told of a Foreign Affairs officer who claimed her former boss, Fox Hill MP Fred
Focus more on crime than immigration
An open letter to the Bahamian people and the Ministry of National Security.
‘Wild Wild West’ web shop oversight hits Gaming Board
* AG: ‘Difficulty’ undermines ‘blue ribbon’ status * Gov’t ‘seconding’ anti-money launder specialists * Will ‘address forthwith’ web shop money transfers
THE Gaming Board’s “blue ribbon” reputation has been hurt by taking on regulation of the “Wild Wild West” web shop sector, the Attorney General said yesterday. Carl Bethel QC told Tribune Business that the Government was now seconding more experienced anti-money laundering regulators from other agencies to the Gaming Board in a bid to get to grips with a sector deemed “high risk”.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Big Apple gives marijuana green light
IT HAS long been said about New York, that if you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.
Commission 'underplays' industrial hemp potential
The National Commission on Marijuana has “really underplayed” the potential economic impact of industrial hemp, an advocate for the drug’s legalisation charged yesterday. Terry Miller, head of the Bahamas Cannabis Research Institute (BACARI), veheme
Moree: Changes would ease pressure on courts
CHIEF Justice Brian Moree has said decriminalising small amounts of marijuana possession is a “policy issue” that if made, would alleviate some of the case load from the court system.Stressing he needed to be extremely careful in speaking about the c
‘CRIME’S DOWN - NOT BY COVID’: Police chief insists lockdowns not key to reduced offences
POLICE Commissioner Paul Rolle yesterday credited a 16 percent fall in overall crime to the efforts of his force and not a windfall from the months of lockdown enforced on the nation.
Wells: We’re in talks to buy vaccines
AS the United Kingdom became the first nation to start to vaccinate its citizens against COVID-19 yesterday, Health Minister Renward Wells said the government is currently engaged in its own talks with several vaccine producers.
Govt to plug genetic exploitation loophole
The government yesterday moved to finally plug a loophole that has enabled foreign exploitation of The Bahamas’ biological and genetic resources without this nation earning a cent.
Suspects face new controls in Bail Act
THE Minnis administration is seeking to make changes to the Bail Act by introducing a bail management system that ensures accountability while eliminating loopholes that allow impropriety.
CARICOM calls for marijuana to be treated the same as alcohol
A CARICOM report calling for an end to the prohibition of marijuana for the entire region is up for discussion in Cabinet today, according to Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis.
Sailing from Andros ends with $400 fine
A MAN who sailed from Andros to New Providence on a Boston Whaler to seek medical treatment for an ailing leg during the national curfew was fined $400 yesterday.
Activists say abortion ban a factor in illegal pills trade – For some ‘there’s no choice’
LEGISLATION restricting women’s access to reproductive health care has harmed residents and should be the focus of national discourse, not abortion drugs some obtain without a doctor’s prescription because they have no other choice.
'Save our resources'
THE Bahamas Environment Science and Technology Commission (BEST) yesterday hosted a biodiversity workshop for law enforcement officials as part of its Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) project, an initiative geared towards ensuring the country benefit
Surviving the Horrors of History
Do we believe that the recent spate of violent crimes in our nation is the result of slavery, piracy, colonialism, lack of identity, economic hardship, drugs, greed, abuse, addiction and other afflictions known to humankind? Are we trapped forever in
Prison officers strip searched
CORRECTIONAL officers are protesting a “demoralising” process that sees officers strip searched before the start of their shift.
The giant of loneliness
By Rev. Canon S. Sebastian Campbell