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Incumbent re-elected as area VP for BUT
FREEPORT – Incumbent Quinton LaRoda was re-elected to serve a third consecutive term as area vice-president for the Bahamas Union of Teachers.
Nygard video prompts call for MPs’ resignation
FNM Deputy leader Loretta Butler-Turner is demanding the resignations of several PLP MPs after a video of the group attending a private meeting with billionaire fashion mogul Peter Nygard was shared around the internet.
Chamber appoints new Institute head
The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation (BCCEC) has appointed Keshelle Kerr as the new executive director of the Chamber Institute.
Renewed calls for Bimini EIA
ENVIRONMENTAL activists yesterday reiterated calls for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) for Genting’s multi-million dollar resort and cruise ship terminal investment on Bimini to be published, saying the island was in a “precarious state”.
Still no US Ambassador
TWO years after the last US Ambassador to the Bahamas stepped down, the country is still waiting for a replacement.
150 offered Baha Mar jobs
BAHA Mar yesterday offered more than 150 people jobs at the $3.5bn Cable Beach resort that is set to open on December 8.
The 'write' way to book your fortune
By D’Arcy Rahming
PETER YOUNG: New national sport - expanded role for local sailing clubs
Although it has been fun and a learning experience to have crewed for various people on boating pleasure trips while living here in The Bahamas, I confess to little real knowledge about sailing. But one does not need to know a great deal about this wonderful activity and sport to realise how important it is in this country.
Student-athletes earn college scholarships
St Augustine’s College Big Red Machine’s rich heritage can now boast of having an unprecedented seven student-athletes in the Class of 2019 all achieving Division One college scholarships.
Understanding the prostate cancer controversy
Dr Roberts continues the discussion on the controversial recommendation by the US Preventative Services Task Force (USPTF) for patients to stop taking the routine prostate specific antigen (PSA) exam, which looks for signs of prostate cancer.
BGF NATIONAL SCHOOLS GOLF CHAMPIONSHIPS: Poitier sisters dominate
Sisters Zaire, Zion and Zeden Poitier teamed up as the Poitier Golf Home School to dominate the Lower Primary Girls division of the Bahamas Golf Federation’s Junior Division’s National Schools Golf Championships.
TOUGH CALL: What we can learn from landmark book on seas
THERE is a landmark book on the Bahamian marine environment that has become a sought-after collector’s item. Published in 1968 by the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, and some 15 years in the making, the 771-page first edition quickly sold out.
FOURTH QUARTER PRESS: What’s the buzz with ‘LA LA in Lakerland’?
THE NBA has been a buzz this past week with the defending world champions, the Golden State Warriors, pulling even closer to the 96’ Bulls’ 72-win campaign; Lebron detailing a wish to play alongside some of his generation’s best players, a kid making a mad dash to hug Carmelo, Kyrie Irving’s supposed “ex-girlfriend” and last but certainly not least – the “LA LA” in Lakerland.
THE FINISH LINE: BAAA elections ‘shaping up to be an all out war’
IT’S not how you start, nor how you get there. Most importantly, it’s how you finish.
Clubs and Societies 06262015
Caribbean BBQ Association. - More than 65 interested and eager chefs attended the Nassau Smoking Hot BBQ Training Camp on Wednesday at the College of the Bahamas.
QC backs judge’s ‘pay to play’ halt on Judicial Review
A Supreme Court judge has been praised for preventing Judicial Reviews becoming “pay to play” litigation, after she dismissed the Government’s ‘security for costs’ demand over the challenge to the Hawksbill Creek Agreement (HCA) review.
Five more families hit by land fraud
Five families have become the latest victims of a massive New Providence land fraud, after the Court of Appeal affirmed that Arawak Homes had superior title to their properties.
PM denies FTX gave Heat ‘court side’ seats
The Prime Minister’s spokesman last night refuted claims he received free “court-side seat” tickets from FTX and other hospitality perks in attending a Miami Heat basketball game.
Bahamas saves 25% of FTX assets from ‘dumpster fire’
FTX’s implosion was yesterday branded a “dumpster fire” as it was revealed that 25 percent of recovered international digital assets are in the Bahamian Securities Commission’s safekeeping.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Who really named The Bahamas? Was it Lucayans, not the Spanish and does it really mean what we think?
FOR AS long as any of us can remember, we have believed what we have been tol that the Spanish who first discovered these islands in 1492 gave them their name, Bahama, meaning shallow sea.