The crowd of Saturday night’s Battle for Atlantis championship game was thrown into a frenzy after the Villinova Wildcats stunned the tournament’s top seeded Iowa Hawkeyes in dramatic fashion. (Photo: Lamond Johnson)
Posted on 02 December 2013.
The crowd of Saturday night’s Battle for Atlantis championship game was thrown into a frenzy after the Villinova Wildcats stunned the tournament’s top seeded Iowa Hawkeyes in dramatic fashion. (Photo: Lamond Johnson)
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Posted on 26 November 2013.
An inner city toddler was burned to death yesterday afternoon after his wooden 10-room home went up in flames. The victim is Jeffrey King Jr. of St. Margaret’s Road, Kemp Road. Police found his charred remains clinging to the family’s dog, which also died in the fire. According to fire officials, the blaze took place […]
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Posted on 26 November 2013.
A campaign calling for 16 days of activism aimed at eliminating violence against women in The Bahamas was officially launched yesterday during a ceremony in Rawson Square. The Zonta Clubs in The Bahamas, along with The Bahamas Crisis Centre, organised the event, which coincided with International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women as […]
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Posted on 20 November 2013.
A man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend had confided in his relative that he was going to carry out the deadly plot. Rashid Dean, 28, is accused of murdering 27-year-old Club Med security officer Onieka Johnson two years ago. The love triangle murder trial began yesterday in the Supreme Court. Justice Indra Charles is presiding […]
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Posted on 18 November 2013.
The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) has launched a new, and more powerful and highly interactive website as another option for customers who prefer to meet their service and products needs online instead of in-line or on the phone. Additionally, the company has refreshed its brand logo and changed its tag line to: “Everyday” to reflect […]
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Posted on 15 November 2013.
Exactly a week after a mother and her teen daughter were allegedly murdered by the mother’s boyfriend and just two days after Crisis Centre officials revealed that more than 1,200 women are abused annually, another mother and her child are the latest reported victims of a violent crime, this after a stabbing incident last night […]
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Posted on 15 November 2013.
The compendium of crime bills being debated in Parliament along with other policies enacting by the Christie administration to aid in the fight against crime are effective, the attorney general said yesterday. Allyson Maynard-Gibson said the government’s amendments to the Penal Code as it relates to organised crime and gangs will be of particularly crucial […]
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Posted on 14 November 2013.
The Bahamas ranks among the top 20 countries in the world in terms of the number of women with breast cancer. Officials from The Bahamas Breast Cancer Initiative (BBCI) revealed the alarming statistics at a press conference last evening, adding that nine per cent of Bahamian women have the potentially deadly disease. The average age […]
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Posted on 13 November 2013.
The Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) kick started its positive youth engagement exercises yesterday by educating students of the dangers of firearms and reminding them of their important role in the fight against crime. Officers attached to the Firearms Tracing Investigative Unit visited students from Aquinas College and R.M. Bailey Secondary schools and engaged them […]
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Posted on 11 November 2013.
Members of the Royal Bahamas Defence and Police Forces yesterday paid tribute to the veterans of World War I and II as part of Remembrance Day . (Photo: Lamond Johnson)
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