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Rashad Davis was one of three players from the Missouri State University (MSU) West Plains Grizzlies basketball team to sign with National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I programs yesterday. The 6’4” redshirt freshman guard from Nassau, Bahamas, signed a national letter of intent to play for the University of Texas-Arlington (UTA) Mavericks beginning this fall. According to Davis, the...

Although it isn’t a championship year in track and field, Bahamian national record holder Shaunae Miller-Uibo said she considers this season one of the most important ones in her career up to this point. According to the 6’1” Olympic gold medalist, she’ll use this season to make adjustments in both of her signature races. Miller-Uibo is set to compete in...

Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis officially launched the National Neighbourhood Watch Council Monday night at Police Headquarters – an initiative aimed at bridging the gap between police and communities. With serious crime figures trending down for the first quarter of the year, Dr. Minnis said he anticipates that the council will do even more to put a dent in crime....

With concerns mounting in the ‘over-the-hill’ community that the government’s new Over-the-Hill Redevelopment Project will force persons of their businesses and homes once tax concessions are introduced, project head Dr. Nicole Virgil-Rolle said yesterday, she is also worried about gentrification. At a press conference at the Office of the Prime Minister on Monday, Dr. Virgil-Rolle admitted that there is really...

Reprehensible and unethical is how Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Senator Fred Mitchell described local commercial banks in the country, as he pledged to lead a revolt against their practices. Senator Mitchell in his contribution to the Financial Transaction Reporting Bill 2018 in the upper chamber Monday, lambasted local banks for their apparent “lack of respect for their customers”. The demands...

Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest said Monday that he is “pleased to see concrete signs of economic recovery” based on the 2017 economic data published by the Department of Statistics last week. In a statement released yesterday, Turnquest, who is also the Minister of Finance said, the growth in real gross domestic product (GDP) of 1.4 per cent in 2017...

National Security Minister Marvin Dames said the Interception of Communications Bill (ICB) is needed to provide for the legal interception of email and other forms of communication over the internet. Addressing Parliamentarians in the House of Assembly (HOA), Dames said, without the enactment of this new bill, law enforcement personnel will not be able to utilise the latest in law enforcement...

An estimated 500 chickens were stolen from the Poultry Outlets and Farms facility Sunday evening, the second robbery within a three-month span, the owners of the organic farmland said. “We’ve filed numerous reports before and we haven’t seen anything come from them,” Carey-Ann Poitier, one of the company’s farmers, said in an exclusive interview with Eyewitness News Online. Poitier said,...

Lunchtime at Gambier Primary School took a different spin Monday as students treated Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis to an afternoon of song and dance to celebrate his recent birthday. A busy schedule, packed with several international missions, kept Dr. Minnis away from home on his birthday on April 17. Albeit a belated celebration, students said, “it’s better late than...

Junior forward Sebastian Gray is looking to take his game to the next level in the fall when he suits up for the Texas A&M International University men’s basketball team. Gray will be moving on from Northern Oklahoma College Enid, where he spent the first two years of his collegiate career. The 6’6” wingman averaged 12 points and eight rebounds...

One of the country’s premier grassroots basketball players will make one of the biggest decisions of his life next week. Franco Miller, yesterday, announced that he will select which college he plans to attend in the fall on May 10 in Freeport, Grand Bahama. According to Miller, he’s down to four schools – Ole Miss, the University of Minnesota (UM), Oregon...

As government prepares to offer tax concessions in over-the hill communities to spur economic development, there is an overarching concern from residents that gentrification will force them out. Eyewitness News spoke with a number of residents on the Over-the-Hill Redevelopment project, who expressed that their main concern is the potential influx of the wealthy, which could possibly make it difficult...

Officials at the Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD) are in the final weeks of seeking developers to construct and manage a proposed airport hotel at Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA). NAD announced in early 2018 that it would issue a request for Expressions of Interest (EOI) proposals for the construction and management of a small hotel at LPIA and as...

National Secuitry Minister Marvin Dames called the Interception of Communications Bill 2017 a comprehensive contemporary law to fight “sophisticated technologically savvy criminals and dismantle their criminal networks". He said it is not a spy bill. “From the outset, let me dispel this ridiculousness of the Interception of Communications Bill being referred to as a 'spy bill'. For all within hearing...

One man is dead and six others are fighting for their lives in hospital after they were shot in three separate incidents over the weekend, according to police. The latest incident took place shortly after 3:00 a.m. on Sunday. Investigators said the victim was walking on Augusta street, when he was approached by an armed man who shot him before running...

Senior executives of the state-run power company are still in mitigation mode over the Wilson City power plant in Abaco, as the facility is said to still be “on the brink” of another massive outage. For weeks, the island – which has the nation’s third largest economy – has been negatively impacted due to wide spread rolling outages Residents have...