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BAHAMAS EYES 15% Q1 GROUP TOURISM RISE

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE Bahamas is set to experience a "robust" 2012 first quarter in the tourism sector, Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace said yesterday, attributing this to an expected 15 per cent uptick

Bahamas not exploited data from 100m visitors

A FORMER tourism minister yesterday said the Bahamas must use visitor data to assess trends and make better “business decisions”, adding: “We haven’t used it to the degree we should have”.Vincent Vanderpool-Wallace, founder of the Bedford Baker Group

Hurricane Matthew rages in the southern Caribbean

HURRICANE Matthew swirled westward into the open waters of the Caribbean early on Thursday after hitting islands in the south of the region with heavy wind and rain.

Lamar Taylor 7th in final of 50m freestyle

BIRMINGHAM, England — Seventh place in the final of the men’s 50 metre freestyle at the Commonwealth Games is not a bad position for Lamar Taylor to take away from his swimming experience here.

Regulators sweep defending champions Stingers 102-97

THE New Providence Basketball Association will crown a new champion after Mr Ship It Freight completed a two-game sweep of the defending champions PJ’s Stingers in their best-of-three first round playoffs at AF Adderley Gym last night.

Nesbitt and Rebels advance, Hunter faces early exit

WITHOUT head coach Yolett McPhee-McCuin on the sidelines, Valerie Nesbitt and the Ole Miss Rebels Women’s Basketball programme advanced to the Final Four of the Women’s NIT, but Sammy Hunter and the Rebel men faced an early exit from the men’s version of the tournament.

McCuin and Ole Miss rebels runners-up in the WNIT

A LATE rally fell short and the Ole Miss Rebels concluded the 2021 season as the runners-up in the Women’s National Invitational Tournament.

Bahamians at Ole Miss in supply drive today

THE Bahamian connection at Ole Miss will embark on another community outreach initiative to support Hurricane Dorian victims. The Ole Miss Athletics student-athlete advisory committee will be sponsoring a supply drive today at the Oxford, Mississipp

Mako swimmers to make splash in US colleges

MAKO Aquatics Club, coached by Travano McPhee, has produced several CARIFTA swimmers and two national championships in their brief history and now they are adding to the number of swimmers they have competing in the NCAA.

Police shooting: second arrest

Police officers last night arrested a second suspect in connection with the shooting of Supt Clayton Fernander.

Woman gunned down in street

A WOMAN was gunned down in the street last night and rushed to hospital suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

Pair guilty of attempted armed robbery and attempted murder of Supt Fernander

Excel Josey and Maurice Armbrister have been found guilty Wednesday of the attempted armed robbery and attempted murder of Supt Clayton Fernander.

Bahamas has worst total in region for rapes

THE Bahamas leads the Caribbean in the number of recorded rapes followed by St Vincent, the Grenadines and Jamaica, a new report by the National Task Force for Gender Based Violence revealed yesterday.

Team Bahamas in training for Rugby Sevens, WCup qualifiers

AS the local rugby season comes to an end, the Bahamas Rugby Football Union (BRFU) is focused on the national team development process for competition in the NACRA region.

Former World Champion Riddick Bowe meets with boxing community

Former amateur boxing president Vincent Strachan said it was a pleasure for the boxing community to meet and interact with former two-time world heavyweight champion Riddick ‘Big Daddy’ Bowe and his I Fight Promotions Group.During a visit to the Baha

New elections called for the Bahamas Amateur Boxing Federation

AFTER occupying the chair as the new president of the Bahamas Amateur Boxing Federation, Vincent Strachan will have to vacate office as new elections have been set for Friday, August 31.According to outgoing president Wellington Miller, the Internati

St John’s Native Baptist advances to 15-and-under final in the AID Basketball Classic

DEFENDING champion and pennant winning St John’s Native Baptist Church was the first team to book their spot in the Baptist Sports Council’s 2015 AID Basketball Classic championship series.

Student raises funds to hold back to school extravaganza

IT HAS been a busy summer for ten-year-old Eureia Rolle. The Uriah McPhee student was determined to extend a charitable hand to the children in the community that her primary school resides and organized a back-to-school giveaway on Saturday.

Bahamas well ahead in CARIFTA Swim Championships

TEAM Bahamas is well on its way to a fifth-straight victory going into the fourth day of competition in the CARIFTA Swim Championships in Curacao.

Aspiring entrepreneurs rewarded for innovation

Aspiring Eleuthera entrepreneurs have been rewarded for their ideas after participating in the Centre for Training and Innovation’s “The Next Boss” competition.

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