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Family despair at ‘senseless’ killing
A FAMILY is devastated by the “senseless” killing of 43-year-old Charles Taylor, who, they say, was an innocent bystander shot at the Platinum Sporting and Hookah Lounge at Eight Mile Rock last Tuesday.
Grand Bahama to host a number of events for National Older Persons Month
FREEPORT – The Department of Social Services is observing National Older Persons Month with a number of activities and events that focus on senior citizens here in Grand Bahama.
‘Make Abaco the second Freeport’
Abaco’s Chamber of Commerce president yesterday called for the Dorian-ravaged island to be designated as a ‘second Freeport’ to further spur its recovery from the devastating storm.
PETER YOUNG: Non-violence in resolving conflict - a lesson for us all?
A significant event last week in South Africa has led to reflection by some on the past iniquitous system of apartheid in the country, and it is a reminder of the power of forgiveness and reconciliation in an increasingly troubled and violent world.
62 new COVID-19 cases
THE Ministry of Health reported sixty-two new COVID-19 cases and four more virus-related in its Thursday dashboard.
Credit access slumps to under 50% of GDP
Credit to the private sector continued its “long-term decline” during the COVID-19 pandemic to drop below a sum equivalent to 50 percent of GDP, Moody’s has revealed.
PETER YOUNG: We need to be tough on illegal immigration but obey the law
THE most recent comment by Senator Ted Cruz about the ongoing crisis on the US border with Mexico says it all.
27-year-old man drowns in canal
POLICE are investigating a suspected drowning in eastern New Providence.
Could SOE loss-makers have curbed costs more?
A Bahamian banker yesterday questioned whether loss-making state-owned enterprises (SOEs) did everything they could to curtail costs amid the quadrupling of subsidies at COVID-19’s peak.
Loss-making SOEs suck up near $118m
The Government spent more than $118m in combined subsidies to keep Bahamasair and the Water & Sewerage Corporation afloat at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was revealed last night.
Two divers die ‘from bends’
TWO divers died on Saturday during a fishing trip off Rose Island, apparently after suffering from the bends.
COVID death toll rises by 38
THE number of fatalities from COVID-19 has risen to 381 - an increase of 38 according to data released by officials over the weekend.
‘Why did non-frontline workers get payment?’
HEALTHCARE union officials are expressing displeasure with the roll out of COVID-19 honorariums that awarded non-frontline workers over nurses and doctors who work daily in the fight against the pandemic.
A tsunami of lies about vaccines
The government’s policy of allowing tourists who are at least two weeks past their double or single dose covid vaccine regimen to enter without covid testing is being savaged on social media as the supposed vector for our third wave of the disease.
PETER YOUNG: Tokyo breathes a sigh of relief - but will it last?
After all the opposition, controversy, setbacks and scandals surrounding the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, some people regard it as a minor miracle that these Games are finally under way despite much of Japan being under a state of emergency because of COVID.
BPL chief hails $15m storage ‘game changer’
Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) chief executive yesterday hailed its planned $15m battery storage facility as a “game changer” for energy costs, efficiency and supply reliability.
Ex-MP wins 2% of claim over his ‘most humiliating episode’
An ex-PLP MP has won just two percent of his $84,420 legal claim against the government for what he described as “the most humiliating episode of my professional career”.
Decaying body found in home
POLICE discovered a man’s partially decomposed body in a home on Horseshoe Drive yesterday morning in what they have classified as suspicious death.
WORLD VIEW: The Caribbean should support ecocide as an international crime
SMALL island states and countries with low-lying coast are the victims of ecocide.