02 January 2019
Cases of swine flu in the Bahamas have tourism officials in damage control mode. Tourism Director General, Joy Jibrilu, told reporters last Friday that they are monitoring the situation. “We actively monitor whenever there’s an outbreak. “I mean if you think about it, it was chikungunya, it was zika, it’s always something that you have […]
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02 January 2019
Tourism officials said 2018 has been a very good year for the country as air, sea, and stop over visitor arrivals continue to increase. Tourism Minister, Dionosio D’Aguilar last Friday gave members of the press an update on the state of the tourism industry for the year ending 2018. The minister acknowledged what he called […]
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02 January 2019
Minister of National Security Marvin Dames says The Sexual Offender’s registry is on schedule for the first quarter of 2019. He said his ministry is looking at the regulations for the registry and hopes to take this before cabinet in January. The Minister pledged back in March of last year that this would be a […]
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02 January 2019
Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) officers stationed at South Beach Pools apprehend several Haitian nationals attempting to make it to shore in waters east of the area around 1 a.m. yesterday. Upon further investigation by RBDF, police, and immigration personnel, discovered a wooden sloop in shallow waters about a quarter-mile off shore. An expanded search of the coastal […]
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02 January 2019
The Chairman of Save The Bays, Joseph Darville says, “with much consternation, we are learning that an EIA for the proposed Oban Industries has been completed, but will not at this time be made public for scrutiny. This, in itself sounds most fishy. Even an idiot, without the least understanding about our marine ecosystems, would […]
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02 January 2019
The management of Jones Communications Network has chosen two clergymen as the recipients of the annual Person of The Year Award for 2018. The prestigious award goes jointly to two outstanding Bahamian religious leaders who have been elected to international positions, the Reverend Doctor Timothy Stewart and Doctor Leonard Johnson. Rev. Dr. Stewart has been […]
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02 January 2019
A Canadian man traveling to The Bahamas from London, was remanded to the Bahamas Department of Corrects for alleged drug possession. Reginald Merritt’s intended stay in the Bahamas was interrupted after he was arrested for possession of dangerous drugs at the Lynden Pindling International Airport last Thursday. Merritt was charged before the Magistrate’s Court on […]
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02 January 2019
The New Year 2019 started with a shooting incident where a young man was shot in the head. Mercifully, he is still alive. In a matter of days, we believe, we will start counting the dead bodies again of young people who are being slaughtered on our streets and in our heartland communities. Sadly, […]
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02 January 2019
The results for the 2019 New Year’s Day Junkanoo parade indicate that The Valley Boys Group gained bragging rights for the entire year. The group which is celebrating its 60th anniversary as an organization impressed the Judges and spectators with the theme, “We Give God Thanks and Total Praise.” The Valley Boys accumulated a […]
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21 December 2018
A 26-year-old resident of Acklins Street told a Magistrate yesterday that he was coerced into confessing to the murder of Mario Cartwright, who was killed when he walked in a store on First Street, Coconut Grove as armed robbers were leaving. Paul Adderley stood before Chief Magistrate, Joyanne Ferguson-Pratt charged with four separate counts, which […]
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