25 June 2015
With a total of 58 votes, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Fred Mitchell won a poll to be become the next leader of the Progressive Liberal Party. The unscientific poll was conducted yesterday on Love 97 FM’s radio talk show ‘Issues of the Day,’ where callers were allowed to vote on who they think […]
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25 June 2015
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Immigration Fred Mitchell responded to comments made by former State Minister for Finance in the Ingraham administration Zhivargo Laing on Wednesday. Minister Mitchell said he would not allow on his watch, the opportunity for any message about deliberate government involvement with stunted immigration policies to reach the world. Two days […]
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25 June 2015
The government should place a monopoly on online gaming licences granted in order to control the industry and prevent it from spiraling out of control, according to FML Group of Companies CEO Craig Flowers. Mr. Flowers said regulating the industry should be seen as an urgent matter and he cautioned that if the government does […]
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25 June 2015
A leading environmentalist has called for a full investigation into a third suspected fuel leak from a Rubis station in New Providence. Ecologist and Attorney Romi Ferreira, a director of Save The Bays (STB), said highly toxic and environmentally destructive substances may have leaked, or may be continuing to leak into the ground at Porky’s […]
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25 June 2015
The Court of Appeal yesterday overturned a 2011 conviction of FML Group of Companies CEO Craig Flowers and ordered that he be returned more than $800,000 seized from his company during a 2009 police raid. Back on April 28, 2009, police conducted a raid of the FML Web Shop on Wulff Road. The officers armed […]
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25 June 2015
A man facing up to life imprisonment for double attempted murder charges, during a late night home invasion, had his sentence delayed for a week on Wednesday. Quincy Johnson, 35, appeared before Justice Vera Watkins to be sentenced after he was charged with two counts of attempted murder, two counts of possession of a firearm […]
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24 June 2015
Minister of Financial Services Hope Strachan urged the St. John’s College High School graduating class on Tuesday to make the right choices. Minister Strachan, who is also a former graduate of St. John’s College, told the graduates that it is very disappointing that the nation’s youth must be subjected to a steady diet of crime; […]
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24 June 2015
Chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party Bradley Roberts confirmed on Tuesday that after nearly six years, the PLP will hold its set annual convention this year during the last week of October at the Meliá Resort. He told reporters yesterday that despite the conventions inconsistency over the last few years, the delegated ‘annual’ convention will […]
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24 June 2015
The Government of The Bahamas is gearing towards establishing a National Development Plan. The objective of the plan would be to facilitate national growth and would entail central planning and monitoring on a national level and implementation on a micro or local level. Centres of focus would be development of the economic infrastructure, education, social […]
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24 June 2015
The rate of crime falls when the rate of education rises, therefore education is the key to overcoming the challenge of violent crime, according to Prime Minister Perry Christie. The prime minister’s comment came yesterday as he discussed the challenges associated with building a prosperous Commonwealth, as he officially opened the 19th Conference of Commonwealth […]
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