27 November 2018
The recent recall of Romaine lettuce due to the bacteria E. Coli, has prompted the need for more resources to be pumped into ensuring that local laboratories are of first world status, to test imports to and exports from The Bahamas. Agriculture Minister Michael Pintard said that the ministry would ensure that there is the […]
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26 November 2018
The next general election is still a few years off, but Progressive Liberal Party National Chairman Fred Mitchell said by the looks of it, things are trending in the direction of the PLP. Optimism aside, he said the party cannot get to the point where it is so comfortable, that it believes that victory will […]
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26 November 2018
Fifty- one year Errol Knowles has been formally charged with being a serial fraudster. His alleged fraud spree has ended, just days after an all-points bulletin was issued for his arrest. He appeared before a magistrate last Friday to face a laundry list of charges. The charges included seven counts of possession of forged documents, […]
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26 November 2018
The Opposition’s shadow Minister of Finance, Exuma and Ragged Island Member of Parliament Chester Cooper expressed concerns this weekend surrounding the Government’s 2018 Fiscal Strategy Report, as he believes that nothing in it inspires confidence. In a statement issued on the weekend he said, “producing pretty reports is not a strategy. Just saying it is […]
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26 November 2018
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest fired back this on the weekend accusing Exuma and Ragged Island Member of Parliament Chester Cooper of amnesia after the PLP MP said the present government “simply does not know what it’s doing”. In a statement, Mr. Turnquest said, “he persists in his amnesia […]
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26 November 2018
It was a somber night at Nirvana Beach last Friday, as close family and friends and members of the public gathered to hold a candlelight prayer service for missing pilot Byron Ferguson. Just two weeks ago his sex seater Aztec plane went down in waters off this very same beach. Giving words of encouragement was […]
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26 November 2018
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, on 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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26 November 2018
Police in the capital are investigating the country’s 79th homicide and are seeking the public’s assistance in bringing the criminal or criminals to justice. Police say that shortly after 5:00am Sunday, a male was discovered unresponsive, with trauma to his body, through a track road off Eneas Jumper Corner. Paramedics were called to the scene, […]
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26 November 2018
Cases of swine flu 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,” she said. “If you think about it, it was chikungunya, it was zika, it’s always something that you have to be […]
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26 November 2018
Police officers in Eight Mile Rock, Grand Bahama, arrested a 28-year-old male of Eight Mile Rock after he was allegedly caught in the act of stealing copper wire from a business establishment. According to Assistant Superintendent of Police Tericita Pinder, the incident occurred shortly after 9am Thursday, when officers acting on information went to […]
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