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Let's Get it Started

Let's Get it Started By Get Well Bahamas PHASE three of the 16-week Get Well Bahamas Health and Fitness challenge is off to a great start, with 40 participants working to lose weight and improve their overall physical and mental health. The objectives

Ppair accused of kidnapping student

Ppair accused of kidnapping student By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net THE teenage son of convicted drug traffickers Dwight and Keva Major was arraigned in Magistrate's Court yesterday afternoon in connection with the rob

Woman in court over cocaine

Woman in court over cocaine By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net A WOMAN has been arraigned in Magistrate's Court in connection with a $45,000 cocaine seizure at the main Nassau airport. Shakera Cox, 25, was remanded to He

El Padrino back with "Duffles"

El Padrino back with "Duffles" By FARAH BAHAMIAN artist El Padrino was gone for 'a minute', and now he is back with a new song and a new video. It is gaining positive reviews locally and internationally. The "Duffles" video was shot on Rose Island and

Mitchell fury at visa fraud claim

Mitchell fury at visa fraud claim By CELESTE NIXON Tribune Staff Reporter cnixon@tribunemedia.net PLP MP Fred Mitchell moved quickly to file a lawsuit yesterday after a Wikileaks document claiming the Fox Hill MP pressured Foreign Affairs staff to gra

A balanced judiciary?

EDITOR, The Tribune. The Nassau Guardian reported on February 4, 2012, that a businessman was fined and given probation after police collectively found 1.5lbs of marijuana on his person and his business storage and conference room last year. The defendan

Mitchell fury at visa fraud claim

Mitchell fury at visa fraud claim By CELESTE NIXON Tribune Staff Reporter cnixon@tribunemedia.net PLP MP Fred Mitchell moved quickly to file a lawsuit yesterday after a Wikileaks document claiming the Fox Hill MP pressured Foreign Affairs staff to gra

A balanced judiciary?

EDITOR, The Tribune. The Nassau Guardian reported on February 4, 2012, that a businessman was fined and given probation after police collectively found 1.5lbs of marijuana on his person and his business storage and conference room last year. The defendan

Christian Conch Salad

Christian Conch Salad By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features Reporter The latest book by Rev Angela C Bosfield Palacious is now available in book stores. In the collection of 48 meditations, Rev Palacious speaks about the love of God, self and fellow man. S

Mitchell accuser 'probed by police'

Mitchell accuser 'probed by police' THE official who accused Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell of pressuring Foreign Affairs staff to grant visas to 30 unqualified foreigners was herself under investigation by police, according to documents filed in court yester

THE REWARDS OF CORRUPTION

By PACO NUNEZ Tribune News Editor THE big story last week was obviously the back-and-forth claims of visa fraud between the two major parties. First, FNM Senator Dion Foulkes told of a Foreign Affairs officer who claimed her former boss, Fox Hill MP Fred

Gun, drugs finds lead to number of arrests by police

Gun, drugs finds lead to number of arrests by police By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net POLICE detained four men and a boy for questioning over the weekend in connection with stealing, armed robbery and illegal firearm in

THE REWARDS OF CORRUPTION

By PACO NUNEZ Tribune News Editor THE big story last week was obviously the back-and-forth claims of visa fraud between the two major parties. First, FNM Senator Dion Foulkes told of a Foreign Affairs officer who claimed her former boss, Fox Hill MP Fred

Gun, drugs finds lead to number of arrests by police

Gun, drugs finds lead to number of arrests by police By LAMECH JOHNSON Tribune Staff Reporter ljohnson@tribunemedia.net POLICE detained four men and a boy for questioning over the weekend in connection with stealing, armed robbery and illegal firearm in

THE REWARDS OF CORRUPTION

By PACO NUNEZ Tribune News Editor THE big story last week was obviously the back-and-forth claims of visa fraud between the two major parties. First, FNM Senator Dion Foulkes told of a Foreign Affairs officer who claimed her former boss, Fox Hill MP Fred

Police lack creole speakers

Police lack creole speakers THE Royal Bahamas Police Force continues to lack sufficient Creole speakers to combat the major role played by Haitian-Bahamian gangs in the drugs trade, according to the US State Department. The newly released 2012 edition of

BAHAMAS URGED: ADDRESS FINANCIAL LAW WEAKNESSES

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The US government has again urged the Bahamas to strengthen its anti-terror financing laws and make membership of organised criminal gangs a criminal offence, according to a recently-released US State Department r

Bahamians Pleased With National Prescription Drug Plan

Bahamians Pleased With National Prescription Drug Plan By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features Reporter FOUR additional chronic diseases have been added to the National Drug Prescription Plan, chief pharmacist Dr Brenna Brown-Turnquest announced at the 40th a

Bahamians Pleased With National Prescription Drug Plan

Bahamians Pleased With National Prescription Drug Plan By ALESHA CADET Tribune Features Reporter FOUR additional chronic diseases have been added to the National Drug Prescription Plan, chief pharmacist Dr Brenna Brown-Turnquest announced at the 40th a

Doctors: Manuel Noriega has a benign brain tumour

PANAMA CITY (AP) -- Doctors in Panama said Tuesday that former dictator Manuel Noriega has a benign brain tumour, a possible heart condition and other ailments that raise the risk of him dying in prison. A team of private doctors hired by Noriega's family