03 July 2017
Pulsating sounds, skilled dancers and vibrant colors filled Arawak Cay this past Saturday for the opening of this year’s Junkanoo Summer Festival (JSF). Junkanoo Summer Festival, a signature event of the Ministry of Tourism and Aviation, attracted thousands of locals and visitors who gathered to watch the highly anticipated choreography competition between the A and […]
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03 July 2017
The Passport Office has announced that a special Collection Centre opens today and will remain open during the month of July at the Anatol Rodgers Gymnasium at the school on Faith Avenue in Nassau. The special centre has been opened to promote and encourage the collection of thousands of e-passports that have been processed and […]
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03 July 2017
Despite the fact that the rate of HIV/AIDS has decreased in The Bahamas, Minister of Health Dr. Duane Sands said the fight against the disease must intensify. These sentiments came during the recent Regional HIV/AIDS Testing Day in Rawson Square on Friday. The minister said the disease has taken a toll, particularly here in The […]
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03 July 2017
Veteran journalist Anthony Capron takes the gavel and is now president of The Bahamas Press Club 2014. Mr. Capron was unanimously voted in, succeeding Anthony A. Newbold, who led the organization for almost three years. Mr. Newbold officially stepped down as president during the Annual General Meeting held at the British Colonial Hilton on Tuesday, […]
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03 July 2017
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts has hit out at the Free National Movement (FNM) over alleged victimization. In his remarks at the PLP’s Eastern Region Service of Thanksgiving on Friday, Mr. Roberts was not only highly critical of the government for the alleged politically motivated firings, but what he describes as their ineffectiveness […]
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03 July 2017
Police are still investigating the murder of a man who was recently released on bail for murder. According to reports, shortly after 10 p.m. on Friday, police received a report that a man had been shot in the area Nassau Street near Meadow Street. Responding officers arrived on scene and met the lifeless body of […]
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03 July 2017
Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis left the capital today as he is scheduled to attend the 38th Regular Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) in St. George’s, Grenada. The 38th Regular Meeting takes place July 4-6. It will be Prime Minister Minnis’ inaugural CARICOM Meeting as prime minister […]
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03 July 2017
The promoter behind the failed Fyre Festival music event was arrested last Friday in New York on a wire fraud charge. Billy McFarland was charged with scheming to defraud investors in his company, Fyre Media, and Fyre Festival that was supposed to take place on the island of Exuma over two weekends in April and […]
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03 July 2017
A 45-year-old corrections officer will find out what it is to be on the opposite side of the prison bars this after being formally charged and found guilty of one count of possession of illegal narcotics with the intent to supply. Ex prison guard Logan Zacchaeus Smith was sentenced to one year in jail after […]
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03 July 2017
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts claimed that former Baha Mar developer Sarkis Izmirlian has been double crossed as he criticized the Minnis administration for an appeared shift in their stance regarding the future of the multibillion dollar resort. Mr. Roberts criticized the government during his address at the PLP’s Eastern Region Service of […]
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