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I am not my mother’s daughter
I was my mother’s consequence not her daughter. I was the consequence of her intimacy with my father, but I was not her child. The words ‘daughter’ and ‘child’ denote a caring and closeness that is thought to be normal and natural between mother and child. For my mother and I this was not so. Although I came from her, I was foreign to her like an invading pathogen to the body.
Man ‘paid $150 for fake stamp’ to stay in country
A JAMAICAN man who paid another man $150 for a fake immigration stamp he tried to use to extend his stay in the country was yesterday sentenced to six months behind bars.
$73,000 of suspected marijuana found
A WOMAN was arrested by officers of the Drug Enforcement Unit after they found more than $73,000 worth of suspected marijuana at her residence.
Minister to U.S.: Give us COVID ‘shot in the arm’
A Cabinet minister last night said the US pledge to make 60m AstraZeneca COVID vaccine doses available to other nations can be “the shot in the arm” for The Bahamas’ tourism and economic revival.
‘I don’t want my guests to leave with COVID dessert’
THE restaurant owner whose staff note sparked the debate over “mandatory” vaccines has sought to further justify his stance, saying: “I don’t want guests to come for sushi and leave with a COVID dessert.”
Date set for sentencing over drug possession
CHIEF Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt is next week set to determine the fate of a 32-year-old man who on Friday confessed to being in possession of $26,000 worth of marijuana and cocaine.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Slow burn
FIRST New York made headlines a few weeks ago, (as we mentioned in this very column) with the legalisation of medicinal and recreational marijuana (cannabis).
West worst for police to serve
Almost a week ago, eight people were attacked by hitmen in a well-coordinated shooting, only two people survived, and six others killed, marking this incident as the second recorded mass shooting since 2013 and a similar incident that was reported back in the early 1960’s when the Bahamas was under the British Crown.
Candlelight vigil held for mass shooting victims
A CANDLELIGHT vigil was held in the Kemp Road area yesterday for six men who lost their lives in a violent execution in the area last Thursday.
Probation for buying hemp ‘for wife of boss’
A JAMAICAN man who was caught with $60 worth of marijuana he claimed he bought for his employer’s wife was yesterday placed on probation for one year.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS: Ex-cop guilty of murder and manslaughter in George Floyd case
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with his knee on the Black man's neck in a case that touched off worldwide protests, violence and a furious reexamination of racism and policing in the U.S.
INSIGHT: What’s really being done to address what puts a young man’s finger on the trigger of a gun?
ONE of the main campaign positions of both of our last administrations has been an emphasis on eradicating the scourge of crime. As record murders were set under both the Ingraham and Christie administrations, our politicians, in hopes of engendering confidence in the electorate, claimed to have the answer.
Demand for staff to be vaccinated ‘not legal’
LABOUR Director John Pinder said his department has received several complaints about “at least” three different businesses trying to implement a new policy that mandates workers to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Tourist told to pay $200 to avoid jail for marijuana possession
AN American tourist who bought marijuana from a man on a local beach was ordered to pay $200 to avoid spending two months in jail.
EXECUTED: Six dead in horrific gangland ambush
SIX men were murdered in a hail of bullets after men wearing black, brandishing high powered assault rifles and handguns, ambushed them at the intersection of Jerome Avenue and Chesapeake Road yesterday.
Vaccine supplies facing problem
A PAN American Health Organisation official has said there will be a short period of “limited access” to the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine due to shipment and manufacturing issues.
Third man charged in connection with $3m cocaine seizure
A THIRD man was yesterday charged in the Magistrate’s Court in connection with a recent seizure of more than $3m worth of cocaine.
Man launches appeal against 35-year prison sentence
A MAN convicted of attempting to murder three men at a cemetery in East Grand Bahama over three years ago has launched an appeal against his 35-year prison sentence.
The way to the average Bahamian voter's heart is through his stomach
The political framework of The Bahamas is stubbornly rudimentary, to the extent that Bahamians with a low IQ can comprehend the basics of politics.
Body fished from waters off Bay Street dock
POLICE fished a partially decomposed body from waters off the former Pioneers Shipping Dock located on Bay Street yesterday.