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Out Island ‘uproar’ over RBC closures

Spanish Wells and Bimini were yesterday said to be in “uproar” over Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) decision to close the only commercial bank branches on their islands, with community leaders already reaching out to other institutions as potential replacements.

Eat Emotionally Well

NUTRITIONIST Sha King believes what started four years ago as a small home business has turned into a full-blown movement.

EDITORIAL: How to crack the traffic problem

It will not take yet another traffic study to tell us what we already know.

Retrial order for suspect accused of robbing pizza delivery man

THE Court of Appeal has ordered a man be retried over allegations he robbed a pizza delivery man three years ago. The appellate court unanimously said Kadero Munroe should be retried over the Crown’s claims he robbed Marco’s Pizza delivery man Franc

Film casts new light on prosecutor attack

LAVITA Thurston outfitted her home with surveillance cameras in December, three years after her daughter was killed on her front porch. She hopes footage from those cameras will save two of her sons from prison after they were accused of attacking a prosecutor, Joel Seymour, on Sunday.

'5' or 'S': Firearm conviction overturned on technicality

A MAN’S conviction for having an illegal firearm has been overturned because of the appellate court’s uncertainty over whether the serial number of the firearm police said they found him with contained the number “5” or a capital “S”.

A COMIC'S VIEW: Rebels without a cause are just a suicide squad

For the past two years or so, the Drake rejuvenated expression “what a time to be alive” has been the go-to expression on social media.

City Markets chief's 'legal action' pledge over Harbour Bay site

The former City Markets’ supermarket chain’s principal yesterday pledged to take “strong legal action” against its ex-Harbour Bay store’s landlords and BISX-listed AML Foods, arguing that his company was current on rental payments when the lease was terminated.

$102m energy project 'comes alive again

By NEIL HARTNELL

Over $1m tax rise wipes out Port’s tariff cut plans

A more than $1 million tax burden increase, combined with a delayed Baha Mar-related upswing in container volumes, has forced the Arawak Port Development Company (APD) to postpone plans to reduce its tariffs.

STATESIDE: US rival tensions continue to build as China’s recent affair with Cuba taking centre stage

“The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict,” according to the US State Department’s historical office.

POLITICOLE: Christie flips out and sets filthy tone for the election

AT the now infamous Progressive Liberal Party outdoor branch meeting in Fox Hill, Prime Minister Perry Christie said: “On account of a lunatic who was saying I should deny I own this condominium, dis what I tell him.” Then the middle finger went up.

At last! 11 years for Ericka's killer

AFTER a 14-year delay, a 54-year-old man was finally sentenced to prison yesterday for stabbing his common-law wife to death in front of her mother and children over a decade ago.Justice Renea McKay sentenced Leo Roderick Johnson to 11 years behind b

PLP Convention day three: As it happened

From the Melia hotel, Cable Beach.

Baha Mar to be sold twice as court process ends

BAHA Mar’s secured creditor has acquired the project from its receivers for a sum “substantially higher” than that offered by the top bidder, with the property essentially being sold twice as part of the process.

An unrelenting dilemma

“One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.”

The legacy of Hubert Ingraham

The first time Hubert Ingraham came across my radar (and I have met him only a couple of times in the past 30 years) was in a lawyer friend's office when Ingraham was chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party.

ADRIAN GIBSON: The Long Island boating tragedy

Columnist Adrian Gibson looks more closely at the boating tragedy in Long Island; the new school year and the Cuban abuse claims.

Former PLP MP: Speaker was wrong over Ingraham

THE Office of Prime Minister is bigger than the occupant. What the Chair did to Mr Ingraham will unfavourably mark the manner of our bearing for years to come. “I do not agree with what you have to say” wrote Voltaire in another century, “but I will defend to death your right to say it.”

Back to The Bahamas - the email trail behind Jean Rony’s return

Over the course of 72 hours, attorney Fred Smith attempted to negotiate with the Government over Jean Rony’s return to The Bahamas. In addition to numerous telephone calls with the government officials involved, the trail of emails between the two sides show how fast the situation developed - and how for Jean Rony how his dream of returning safely to the country of his birth ended in him again being detained.

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