Art & Entertainment

NEW YORK – Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis was honoured on Wednesday, February 27 by the American Foundation for The University of the West Indies (AFUWI) for exemplary professional achievements. The award honours graduates of The University of the West Indies who have excelled in their chosen fields and made significant national, regional or international impact. The prime minister obtained...

PLANTATION, FLORIDA – As part of its new marketing strategy to integrate and highlight the culture and people of The Bahamas through innovative storytelling, the Ministry of Tourism and Aviation (MOTA) Plantation office teamed up with well-known celebrity artist Jamaal Rolle, at the recent Art Fort Lauderdale Show. The four-day curated art show, which combined indigenous art from around the...

No, you’re not smoking something. Martha Stewart has entered the fast-growing — but still legally murky — cannabis market. The domestic diva who brought us hemp yarn is now partnering with Canada’s Canopy Growth Corp. to develop new products containing CBD, a compound derived from hemp and marijuana that doesn’t cause a high. First to come, she said, will be...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — HBO’s chief executive said he is exiting the cable channel, a decision that comes less than a year after AT&T acquired HBO’s parent company. “Hard as it is to think about leaving the company I love, and the people I love in it, it is the right time for me to do so,” Plepler said in...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The original stars of “Beverly Hills, 90210” are planning a high school reunion with a twist. Fox said Wednesday that cast members including Jason Priestly and Jennie Garth will play “heightened versions” of themselves in a six-part series airing this summer. Fox says the drama titled “90210” is inspired by the cast’s real lives and relationships,...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — An arbitrator has ordered 21st Century Fox to pay $179 million in a dispute over profits with the stars of the long-running TV show “Bones,” saying Fox executives engaged in “intentional fraud and malice.” The decision was reached earlier this month and revealed in a court petition from the plaintiffs Wednesday demanding that Fox pay, a...

CHICAGO (AP) — After R. Kelly met a girl celebrating her 16th birthday at a restaurant, it was his manager who handed her Kelly’s business card with the R&B star’s personal phone number on it, telling the teen that Kelly wanted her to give him a call, according to prosecutors. The 52-year-old singer-songwriter was charged last week with sexually abusing the girl...

Governor General, Her Excellency Dame Marguerite Pindling visited the home of Mrs. Gwedolyn Clarke on the occasion of Clarke's 105th birthday.  (BIS Photos/Derek Smith)

CHICAGO (AP) — The Latest on the sexual abuse case against R&B singer R. Kelly (all times local): 7:35 p.m. A suburban Chicago woman posted the $100,000 bail for R. Kelly to be freed from jail while he awaits trial on sexual abuse charges. The Chicago Tribune reports that court records show a 47-year-old Romeoville, Illinois, woman posted the bail — 10...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is going after director Spike Lee, who used his Oscar acceptance speech to urge mobilization for the 2020 election. Trump tweeted Monday that Lee did a “racist hit on your President.” Trump claimed that he had “done more for African Americans” than “almost” any other president. Lee won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay...

MARSH HARBOUR, ABACO -- Hundreds of residents and tourists converged on Marsh Harbour, Abaco, on February 22, for the 2019 Abaco Junior Junkanoo Parade. Students showcased their cultural talents through music, choreographic dance and visual arts. Fox Town and Crossing Rocks Primary Schools, Patrick J. Bethel High and Grand Cay All Age Schools performed for the judges, while St. Francis...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The segregation-era road-trip drama “Green Book” was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards on Sunday, handing Hollywood’s top award to a film that some see as a feel-good throwback but that others ridicule as an outdated inversion of “Driving Miss Daisy.” In a year when Hollywood could have made history by bestowing best picture...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Academy Awards producers Donna Gigliotti and Glenn Weiss have been hearing the same question a lot recently: Are you OK? It’s an understandable query. Producing the Oscars is guaranteed to be a stressful job, but the road to the 91st Academy Awards, which will take place on Sunday, has been unusually bumpy, and public. “We’re good!...

CHICAGO (AP) — As authorities laid out their case against “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, the narrative that emerged Thursday sounded like that of a filmmaker who wrote, cast, directed and starred in a short movie. Prosecutors said Smollett gave detailed instructions to the accomplices who helped him stage a racist, anti-gay attack on himself, including telling them specific slurs to...

NEW YORK (AP) — On a year where one of the lead Oscar contenders is titled “The Favourite,” the 91st Academy Awards lack a clear front runner. Normally a fairly predictable process with one or two favorites, this year’s best picture race has been maddeningly unclear, almost devious in its contradictions. The guild awards, usually a road map to the...

CHICAGO (AP) — “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett was charged Wednesday with making a false police report when he said he was attacked in downtown Chicago by two men who hurled racist and anti-gay slurs and looped a rope around his neck, police said. Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said prosecutors charged Smollett with felony disorderly conduct, an offense that could bring...

NASSAU, BAHAMAS- The Miss Teen Bahamas International  (MTBI) Organization held its 2019 contestant unveiling on Sunday at the Courtyard Marriott, and it was an event that spectators deemed to be a success. The 16-week program will feature a total of nine beauties who are all vying for the title of Miss Teen Bahamas International 2019. Last year, the MTBI pageant...