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Human trafficker jailed for 15 years

THE Bahamas’ first trafficking convict was spared life imprisonment yesterday when a Supreme Court judge sentenced her to 15 years in jail.

Cabinet to hear gaming advice from taskforce

TOURISM Minister Obie Wilchcombe said yesterday he expects to update the Christie administration on the Financial Action Task Force’s recommendations for the highly anticipated Gaming Bill when Cabinet meets this week.

A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Signing away The Bahamas

WITH the government signing yet another Heads of Agreement (HOA) on Monday, it appears that Prime Minister Perry Christie has returned to his old ways.

Erskine Curry - Fantasy and reality

Ricardo Wells discovers a grandiose plan to take the Bahamas telecommunications sector by storm is nothing more than a deception.

Report on crime

Report on crime IN today's Insight, we present the official report on crime prepared by noted psychiatrist Dr David Allen. Some findings from this report were first published in The Tribune on March 30, 2012. Dr David F Allen M.D., M.P.H. USING a clin

Should Christians support gambling?

In May, a referendum on gambling was promised by the newly formed government. I am convinced that this stated objective reveals the way in which politicians have manipulated and desensitised our minds and way of thinking.

NAUGHTY'S NFL PICKS

Eagles, Panthers and Bears will be the turkeys today

HAPPY Thanksgiving everybody. Despite going 7-7 last week, my Cowboys shed that gargantuan monkey off their backs with a long overdue win in Miami, and started their march to the NFC East division title and the playoffs.

CARIFTA GAMES: Team Bahamas 'in their element'

ST. George's, Grenada: Team manager Mildred Adderley said there was nothing better than a good night sleep for the BTC Bahamas Carifta team to get ready for competition at the Grenada National Athletics Stadium during the 45th Carifta Games that start on Saturday morning.

Little support for Rollins, more favour for Wells

DESPITE the euphoria of some Free National Movement members over the acquisition of Dr Andre Rollins and Renward Wells, some residents of their respective constituencies yesterday said they are not inspired to support the incumbent representatives in the next general election.

VIDEO: Protesters block access to Paradise Island

DOZENS of irate Cabbage Beach vendors blocked the traffic flow to the Sidney Poitier Bridge yesterday in protest over the “sudden” closure of the main easement access to the popular beach, resulting in violent clashes with police.

Peter Nygard 'hired hitmen': Court documents detail alleged murder conspiracy

CANADIAN fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been accused of orchestrating a murderous plot against his billionaire neighbour Louis Bacon and lawyer Fred Smith, his chief opponents in an ongoing campaign against development at Nygard Cay, according to court documents filed yesterday.

How the Caribbean lost out

The bastardisation of a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet most aptly sums up the response of our flyboy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fred “Supersonic” Mitchell: “Me thinks thou dost protest too much.”

NHI ‘impossible’ without support from doctors

National Health Insurance (NHI) “is simply impossible” without the Bahamian medical profession’s support, a well-known physician warned yesterday, with the Government facing a growing, profession-wide rebellion against the scheme.

The Marriage Bed – redefining marriages and relationships in the Bahamas

So you’re married and happy, but what about sexy? There’s no reason for those sexy undies to go to waste just because you’ve got a ring on your finger.

Condo owners attend trial in support of Bruno Rufa

MANY Coral Beach Hotel condominium owners turned out in support of Canadian Bruno Rufa for the opening of his judicial review trial in the Supreme Court in Grand Bahama yesterday.

The bridge and illusions

Another Christmas has come and gone. On that date this year we recorded yet another alleged homicide and, according to the police, another suspected suicide.

THE FINISH LINE: Why do we have a new national stadium that isn’t available for our best athletes to compete?

IT’S not how you start, nor how you get there. Most importantly, it’s how you finish.

Boxers off to final qualifying trials for Pan Am Games

RASHIELD Williams, Carl Hield and Kieshno Major are off to Tijuana, Mexico for the final qualifying trials for the Pan American Games.

AML Foods JV ‘address for the east’

BISX-listed AML Foods yesterday unveiled a joint venture to bring its Solomon’s concept to southeastern New Providence and become “the address in the east”.

Is our sovereignty in Beijing or the Bahamas?

OH where, oh where has our sovereignty gone, oh, where, oh where can it be?

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