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NPBA: Heatwaves, Rockets, Shockers in the win column

THE New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season action over the weekend at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium with a series of games played.

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CARIFTA: Bahamas surges to lead in swimming standings UPDATED

WILLIAM Fountain secured the first medal for Team Bahamas, but Isabella Cuccurullo electrified the jam-packed Betty Kelly Kenning Swim Complex as she claimed the first gold at the XXXVII CARIFTA Swim Championships.

Big Red Machine just keeps rolling

The St Augustine’s College (SAC) Big Red Machine kept rolling at the 2024 National High School Track and Field Championships where they claimed six out of eight division victories on Sunday evening at the original Thomas A Robinson Stadium.

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Giants blast Rockets as NPBA action resumes

AFTER taking a break for the Christmas holiday, the New Providence Basketball Association resumed its 2016/17 season over the weekend at AF Adderley Gymnasium.

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Ferguson: Talk is over, it’s time to take action

TRADE Union Congress President Obie Ferguson hinted yesterday that extensive labour action could occur across the country in the coming weeks, as he spearheaded the platform merger of several of the nation’s unions in their respective grievances against the Christie administration.

Leslie Miller plaza lease among 'handcuff' deals

The 10-year lease of Leslie Miller’s Summerwinds Plaza is among the deals the Minnis administration is blaming for “handcuffing” its financial plans, Tribune Business can reveal. Government contacts, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed to t

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Hurdler Devynne Charlton qualifies for the Olympics

Devynne Charlton joined arch-rival and national record holder Pedrya Seymour in surpassing the Olympic Games qualifying standard in the female 100 metre hurdles over the weekend.

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DIANE PHILLIPS: There was no one quite like Sylvia Munro and now she’s gone, leaving the saving of a legacy behind

The death notice was a simple one: Sylvia Munro, nee Williams, Born Jan 17, 1929, in Chicago, ill. Passed away peacefully in Nassau on April 3, 2021, at the age of 92.

Athetes shine in Blue Marlin Track and Field Series

WITH the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations’ National Championships set for the end of the month, Wendell Miller, Wanya McCoy, Shimar Bain and Paige Archer got big moral victories on Saturday.

Gibson: ‘As an executive of the board of the BAAA, I know that I am going to be reduced’

TRACK and field athletes’ representative Jeffery Gibson said he’s quite aware that there is expected to be at least a 20 per cent cut in the subvention to the Bahamian athletes in the Bahamas Government’s new budget that will be debated in Parliament this month.

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Team captain Jodie earns unprecedented achievement

4-D Stallions Track Club’s team captain Jodie Ritchie earned an unprecedented achievement as the middle distance runner graduated in the Queen’s College Class of 2020 with academic awards.

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Tributes paid to fallen of the Flamingo

MARINE Seaman David Tucker joined the Royal Bahamas Defence Force two months before his untimely death 41 years ago.

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FRONT PORCH: Seasons of new growth & new life

THE royal poincianas are blooming. Some of the tall umbrella-like trees with their extended canopies and smooth grey barks are nearly fully inflamed, commemorated meticulously in the brushstrokes of Bahamian artist Chan Pratt.

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Red-Line Athletics Track Club awards outstanding athletes

DESPITE the coronavirus pandemic, which halted sporting activities for most of the year, the Red-Line Athletics Track Club still managed to recognise its student-athletes for their accomplishments.

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Tearful tribute to murdered teen

TEACHERS, classmates and loved ones gathered on Friday for a tear-filled tribute to murdered 13-year-old Keishon Williams, who was remembered as a friendly and positive student leader.

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THE FINISH LINE: New BAAAs constitution a ‘step in the right direction’

TWO fledgling sporting bodies in the country took the spotlight as they reflected on the latest developments in their organisations.

How about a Cursillo weekend?

A Cursillo weekend is a retreat from Thursday evening through Sunday afternoon. It is a unique approach to Christian living in that presentations are largely by lay individuals. They share their walk in life through a series of informal talks and dis

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Royals, Cobras are champions

While the senior and junior boys’ championships have been decided, the Government Secondary Schools Sports association’s senior and junior girls’ title will go to a third and deciding game on Thursday.On Tuesday at the Kendal Isaacs Gymnasium, the CC

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Bowleg, Cobras eye Hugh Campbell crown

COACH Mario Bowleg doesn’t just want to settle on his Cobras winning the Government Secondary Schools Sports Association senior boys’ basketball title. He wants to take another Hugh Campbell Basketball Classic championship crown back to CC Sweeting as well.

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Sydney advances, Jacobi out

As the number two seeded player in the girls’ draw, Sydney Clarke wanted to make sure that she played up to the expectations for the Junkanoo Bowl International Junior Tennis Tournament at the National Tennis Centre.Meanwhile Jacobi Bain, unseeded, k