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'Volleying for the cure'

THE local volleyball community came together Friday night to support October’s breast cancer awareness campaign at the DW Davis Gymnasium with the inaugural “Volley For the Cure.”

Lawyers want Bahamians to help determine slavery impact

BAHAMIANS could help determine the “current impact” of slavery on the nation as part of the effort to get slavery reparations from European countries.

Reparations owed from slave horror

I read The Tribune’s story on Saturday, October 12, captioned “Bahamas Suing UK over Slavery” with some amusement and subsequently wrote a friend a note suggesting, inter alia, that “Most Bahamians will not consider this important but that is simply because we have generally run away from the whole horrific experience of slavery and the apartheid state of the colony of the Bahamas for the more than a century following the abolition of the business of slavery in the British Empire.

'Volley For the Cure' at DW Davis tonight

THE Johnson’s Lady Truckers Cherrybombs have joined the fight as ardent supporters of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and are all set to host their inaugural “Volley For the Cure” at the DW Davis Gymnasium tonight.

'Police officers should put country first'

POLICE officers should put the good of the country above their own interests and give full support to the new 12-hour work shift policy, a group of pastors said yesterday.

Bahamas richest country in Caribbean

THE Bahamas is the richest country in the Caribbean community ranked by gross national income per capita, according to a new report.

Sacred edifice consecrated and rededicated in North Andros

With hymns of praise and thanksgiving to God, members of St. Margaret Parish in Nicholls Town, North Andros rejoiced as their church was consecrated and rededicated on September 29.

Bahamas 'richest country in the Caribbean community' ranked by income

THE Bahamas is the richest country in the Caribbean community ranked by gross national income per capita, according to a new report.

All Ceramic Exhibition opens October 24

‘My Flamboyant Teacups and Bowls’ is the theme of ACE 2013, the third biennial All Ceramic Exhibition. As with the two previous shows in the series, ACE 2013 will feature the art of a number of highly creative Bahamians.

Taxi driver must wait for murder trial date

A TAXI driver accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend in her car at a gas station will have to wait five weeks for a trial date.

BORCO donates lunch benches for students

BAHAMAS Oil Refining Company Ltd (BORCO) donated ten lunch benches to the children of the Lewis Yard Primary School, located at the former St Vincent De Paul School site.

Why were Bahamians not told about suing Britain?

MANY Bahamians awoke Saturday morning to have a quiet cup of coffee with The Tribune’s weekend publication — The Big T.

Bahamas suing UK over slavery

THE Bahamas is one of a group of countries in the region suing Britain, Holland and France for slavery compensation payments.

TOUGH CALL: Bermuda and the Bahamas

HAMILTON, Bermuda – Over a mug of Gosling’s rum in the Rosedon Hotel’s tea room here recently, the conversation turned to race relations.

Students held sit-out over school conditions

STUDENTS who engaged in a sit-out at Colonel Hill High School in Crooked Island last week returned to school yesterday, Alfred Gray, MP for the area confirmed yesterday.

Briefly

By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter

RBC hosts prostate cancer seminar

RBC Freeport hosted a free educational seminar on prostate cancer to coincide with Global Prostate Cancer Awareness month, which is observed every September.

More Jokes, More Talent: X Factor Recap

THE TALENT and the funnies continued into episode three and four of the X Factor USA last week.

Classes start at schools

FOR the first time in almost two weeks, classes resumed at Stephen Dillet and Uriah McPhee primary schools yesterday.

RONALD SANDERS: The marijuana question

On September 17, the Bureau of the Heads of Government of the 15-nation Caribbean Community (CARICOM) discussed the decriminalisation of marijuana and its production for medicinal purposes.

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