23 January 2017
In wake of the Department of Social Services celebrating its fifth annual Motivational Seminar, Minister of Social Services Melanie Griffin is stressing that the department remains focused on tackling one of its major issues – homelessness. Mrs. Griffin, who spoke to the media recently, said while Bahamians should be proud of how far the […]
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23 January 2017
Assistant Commissioner of Police Stephen Dean said he is concerned about the fear perpetuated via social media. Mr. Dean on Friday said “some people seem to make a career from creating panic through social media”. These sentiments came after a video and voice notes of a stabbing incident involving three male students of Government High […]
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23 January 2017
Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade has put an end to speculation that the stabbing at Government High School last week was gang related. Mr. Greenslade went as far to call the students involved “wannabees,” noting that the incident was started by two groups shouting gang slogans but assured that persons involved were simply immature and had […]
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23 January 2017
About a week ago an unknown issue at Bahamas Power and Light resulted in the entire island being left without power for hours and for others a little longer than expected then just last Tuesday customers in Western New Providence experienced a partial outage. On Friday, January 13th, 2017 the day the first outage occurred […]
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20 January 2017
By P.J. Malone Fashion mogul Peter Nygard just announced the opening of two new state-of-the-art Breast Cancer Research Units, which reflects his dedication to helping women through breast cancer research. The Nygard International Molecular Biology Breast Cancer Research Unit and Breast Cancer Tumour Bank are located in the Manitoba Breast Cancer research Centre, the only […]
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19 January 2017
Commissioner of Police, Ellison Greenslade called an urgent press conference yesterday afternoon to share his disgrace in the wake of the country’s 11th murder for the New Year. “For the year to date, we have recorded, in The Bahamas, New Providence predominantly, 11 murders, that is a disgrace. Those murders that were recorded were […]
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19 January 2017
Revealing the numbers in the latest immigration statistics, Minster of Immigration Fred Mitchell noted that the year 2016 saw a significant increase in the number of immigrants in all categories, from those arrested to those repatriated. In revealing the statistics, Mr. Mitchell compared 2015 numbers with last year’s numbers. “The general categories are in 2015 […]
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19 January 2017
Minister Responsible for Hurricane Restoration Efforts Shane Gibson yesterday gave a general account of funds spent on relief efforts over the last few months. In his contribution in the Lower Chamber yesterday, Mr. Gibson again reiterating that restoration efforts are progressing steadily. It has been three months since Hurricane Matthew’s devastating impact, and a little […]
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19 January 2017
Just days before his 16th birthday, Ricardo Leonard Fawkes of Marathon Estates became this year’s 11th murder victim early Wednesday morning, the second shooting in just less than 10 hours in New Providence. According to reports, police were called to the scene at Williams Lane off Kemp Road sometime around 4:00 a.m. where they found […]
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19 January 2017
Two men are dead and several others wounded following separate shooting incidents in under 24hours; however Chief Superintendent Clayton Fernander officer in charge of the Central Detective Unit (CDU) says police officials are coping and making significant headway. A growing crowd of onlookers watched and listened as Chief Superintendent Fernander gave the somber details of […]
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