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Landfill manager ‘well armed and ready to go’
The New Providence landfill’s new operator yesterday said it is “well armed with funding and ready to go” as it takes over the site’s management for the first time today.
Govt’s Sandals directive takes workers ‘pre-1958’
The Government was yesterday accused of returning Bahamian workers to “pre-1958 General Strike” conditions, after the Attorney General directed the courts to “discontinue” criminal proceedings against Sandals Royal Bahamian and its top executives.
‘Road map’ for solving City Meat pensions set
The Supreme Court was yesterday said to have laid out “a road map” for former City Markets workers and pension beneficiaries to receive the multi-million dollar payout due to them, following a four-and-a-half year court battle.
Commonwealth Youth Games team named
DERRON Donaldson, chef de mission for Team Bahamas, said the country can expect the local athletes to perform at their ultimate best as they compete in the Commonwealth Youth Games.During a press conference yesterday at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium, D
Privy Council upholds Court of Appeal ruling to quash human trafficking conviction
PARLIAMENT should amend the law if it wants the attorney general to have the power to fast-track human trafficking cases to the Supreme Court for trial, the London-based Privy Council ruled yesterday after it upheld the Court of Appeal’s ruling to quash the conviction in the Bahamas’ first tried human trafficking case.
Sports in brief
BRAJAXBA Tennis is slated to host its third Age Group Tournament for 2013 at the National Tennis Centre on Saturday and Sunday.
'Frustrated' waste energy group offers $3.7bn boost
A waste-to-energy developer proposing a solution that could give the Bahamas a $3.7 billion return over 10 years yesterday said separating the Tonique Williams-Darling Highway landfill from BEC reform was “the wrong way to go”.
70-member team for Carifta named
ON the heels of the final trials over the weekend at the new Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium, the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations named a 70-member team that will carry the Bahamas’ flag at the BTC Carifta Games over the Easter holiday weekend.
The first ship to be sunk in the Bahamas in World War Two
OLAUS Johansen was the only member of a 40-man crew never to leave Abaco after he and his crewmates landed there when their Norwegian ship was attacked and sank in the Bahamas in 1942. Writer Eric Wiberg tells the story as The Tribune continues its look at war stories and the Bahamas in the run-up to Remembrance Day on November 11.
Thompson, Mullings victorious
Teenage sensation Iesha Shephard was having a sensational run through the ladies’ singles of the Giorgio Baldacci Battle of the Elite Players Tennis Tournament until she ran into Danielle Thompson in the final.
'Bahamas performed exceptionally well'
WITH some key injuries to some of the athletes, Rupert Gardiner said the coaching staff for Team Bahamas did the best they could in assembling the line-ups for the inaugural IAAF World Relays Bahamas.
Caricom: A light not yet fully turned on
DR Franklin Johnston, a strategist, project manager and advisor to the Jamaica Minister of Education, wrote a column in the Jamaica Observer of May 30 in which he basically contended that the Caribbean Common Market and Community (CARICOM) and the Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME) are the constructs of “Anglophone black people” and not in the interest of Jamaica.
Opening door to finance for young
ORGANISERS of the country’s leading youth financial initiative, Colina Financial Advisors Ltd’s Junior Investor programme, yesterday launched its New Providence operation at the Super Club’s Breezes Resort.
DNA unveils campaign bus and headquarters
THE Democratic National Alliance ratified four candidates to compete in next year’s general election during the opening of its new headquarters on East Street South on Friday.
Top high school basketball players in the country raise their stock
THE best high school basketball players in the country took full advantage of the opportunity to showcase their skills at the 33rd Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic.
Inaugural Bahamas National High School Basketball Championships set
THE local high school basketball season has a final championship title.
Senior baseball league plans for Pinewood Park
For years there has been the cry of “let’s play senior baseball” and the New Providence Amateur Baseball League is hoping to fill the void next year.
‘Inner beauty never needs make-up’
A LOT of women spend a great deal of time and money engaging in activities to enhance their outer appearance and present a better version of themselves.
SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: On this day in sports history
TO BE a true aficionado one must know the past just as much as the present when following sports.
BLTA hosts rewards gathering for junior players, coaches
AS the national tennis team calendar has come to an end for the Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association (BLTA), Kim O’Kelley - head of junior development, hosted a rewards gathering at the National Tennis Centre on Saturday for all those hardworking juniors who have represented the country this year, coaches who travelled with the teams and those who work at the National Tennis Centre.