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Senator brands National Health plan 'pie in sky'

AN FNM Senator yesterday branded the Government’s comprehensive National Health Insurance (NHI) plan as “pie in the sky” given fiscal realities, and said his previous $750 million annual cost estimate for the scheme was “conservatively low”.

'Wherewithal' for National Health scheme questioned

A former Bahamas Chamber of Commerce head yesterday said the Government was picking the wrong time to introduce National Health Insurance (NHI), and questioned whether this nation had the “wherewithal” to implement it and other major reforms simultaneously.

Man says he was beaten by officers

FREEPORT – A 23-year-old Grand Bahama man is claiming that he was attacked and beaten to near unconsciousness by police officers at the Lynden Pindling International Airport over the weekend.

Defence Force officers held after drugs find

FOUR Defence Force officers and two other men were arrested yesterday after one of the officers was found to be in possession of $50,000 worth of suspected cocaine at Grand Bahama International Airport.

US gives $941,000 to battle against drugs

THE United States Embassy donated $941,000 worth of critical equipment to the Royal Bahamas Defence Force yesterday to help the fight against drug smuggling and people trafficking.

Gomez proposes committee for national health insurance

HEALTH Minister Dr Perry Gomez yesterday proposed a steering committee to oversee the full implementation of a National Health Insurance scheme.

Gov't moves to 'fully implement' National Health Insurance

THE Government yesterday announced it was moving towards the “full implementation” of a National Health Insurance scheme, proposing to create a so-called ‘steering committee’ to oversee the move.

Yes, Bahamians should be first, but...

WE DO not think there is anyone on either side of the political divide who would not agree that Bahamians should be first in their own country. However, as the country grows, Bahamians need more than their nationality as a qualification — they themselves have to be highly skilled. They also — and this is where many of them fail — need a sound work ethic.

TOUGH CALL: A story of speculation in Great Harbour Cay

GREAT HARBOUR CAY, the Berry Islands -- “I call it the knowing. I know what’s going to happen,” 58-year-old Craig Wells confided to me from beneath a raggedy straw hat at the dilapidated beach bar here, just across from the airport terminal.

Bethel mourns after death of granddaughter in shooting

THE grandfather of a young woman who died after she was repeatedly shot during a car chase says his family “might be bowed down in grief – but we are not overcome by it.”

Accused faces court over $64,000 cocaine plot

A WANTED man accused of being an accomplice in a plot to smuggle $64,000 worth of cocaine out of the country was arraigned in Magistrates Court yesterday.

The value of Catholic education appreciated

IN A letter, dated February 15, 1891, to Abbot Bernard Locnikar of St John’s Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, Fr Chrysostom Schreiner, founder of the Catholic Church in the Bahamas, reported that there were “seven sisters of Charity here, who conduct the best school on the island”.

Lawyer Munroe issues alert over organised crime

THE Bahamian web shop industry will likely fall into the hands of organised crime if established operators are forced to shut their businesses down, one of their attorneys telling Tribune Business: “I don’t think people understand how much trouble we are looking at”.

Man held over drugs

ABACO Police arrested a man of Pigeon Pea in connection with the discovery of illegal drugs and firearms early Friday morning.

Two suspects in hospital after gunfight with police

A POLICE shooting left two men in hospital - one in serious condition - after an exchange of gunfire and subsequent car crash into a local residence in the early hours of Saturday.

Roberts calls on FNM to dismiss Minnis

PLP chairman Bradley Roberts encouraged Bahamians to “dismiss Dr Hubert Minnis” as nothing more than a “clueless interim leader” who he said is “clearly out of his depth on national issues”.

Web shops fear organised crime takeover of sector

THE Bahamian web shop industry will likely fall into the hands of organised crime if established operators are forced to shut their businesses down, one of their attorneys telling Tribune Business: “I don’t think people understand how much trouble we are looking at”.

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