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WORLD VIEW: Autonomous weapons – a real and urgent danger to people

AS if small states, with limited financial and human resources to safeguard their societies, do not confront enough grave challenges, along comes the phenomenon of “autonomous weapons” – probably the most frightening technological development that has yet been created.

DPM: Zero tolerance to revive 'dead zones'

The deputy prime minister yesterday pledged a "zero tolerance" approach to criminal activities in downtown Nassau as he seeks to revive an area presently featuring "crippled commerce" and "dead zones".

INSIGHT: The gauntlet has been thrown – will Downtown pick it up?

FOR those of us who do not qualify as Very Important Persons, Saturday was the first chance to take a closer look at the new cruise port.

WORLD VIEW: A call to arms against the surge of gang violence

THERE has been a surge in gang violence and gun violence in Latin America and the Caribbean, leading to a high level of murders and heightened fear in many countries.

38 charged over breach of bail conditions

POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said police recently charged 38 men who were on bail for serious crimes and were being monitored for breaching their bail conditions.

Minnis: FNM’s shanty town plans would solve problem

FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has urged the Davis administration to follow the former government’s plan to address the proliferation of shanty towns.

Price control expansion ‘last straw’ for grocers

The Retail Grocers Association’s president yesterday warned that expanding the price control regime could be “the last straw” for small and medium-sized food stores, adding: “I’d like to know what the magic formula is.”

Grieving mother testifies over son’s murder in 2016

A VISIBLY distraught mother gave testimony in the Supreme Court yesterday in the murder trial of two men charged with the shooting death of her son in 2016.

‘Herculean effort’: Food stores submit price controls counter

Bahamian food retailers were last night hoping the Government “embraces their Herculean effort” to craft an alternative to the major price control regime expansion that satisfies the needs of all parties.

Records could be expunged for emergency order breaches

AN amendment to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act will allow for people convicted of certain criminal offences - including Emergency Order violations - to make “immediate application” to have their records expunged.

COVID vaccine doses for children as young as five arrive in The Bahamas

PAEDIATRIC doses of the COVID-19 vaccine will arrive on Saturday and could be administered in The Bahamas as early as Monday, Minister of Health Dr Michael Darville announced.

Raising gaming questions

There have been numerous articles on your pages over the recent days and month about the question of whether or not gaming, in some shape or form, should be legalized.

‘Thousands of jobs’ from multinational logistics

The Bahamas could create “hundreds, potentially thousands” of new jobs if it promotes itself as a logistics/distribution hub to major US multinationals, a Nassau-based specialist in the field saying this nation could become “as wealthy as the ancient empires” that sat astride major trading routes.

The day they let a good man go

ON THE day that we should have been behind our desk or watching TV 13, we were at a morning meeting and so did not hear or see former prime minister Hubert Ingraham’s final farewell from front-line politics.

Making the judgement on Obama

THE prospects of Barack Obama being re-elected as President of the United States appear to be hanging in the balance. The latest Times/CBS poll in the US shows that the race between him and Republican candidate, Mitt Romney, is essentially tied.

Holding up a Torch for Life: regulating weapons

CARIBBEAN Community (CARICOM) countries joined dozens of other nations in fighting for a robust and comprehensive Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) during negotiations at the United Nations headquarters in New York from 2 to 27 July, but their efforts were frustrated by President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign team.

What happened to BAL could happen to BTC

WHILE the Swires (Cathay Pacific) group was negotiating with the Bahamas government to take over Bahamas Airways, which was a subsidiary of BOAC, another airline company was being incorporated in the chambers of Lynden Pindling and Kendal Nottage. The date was March 13, 1968.

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