The Big Story

The Bahamas men’s beach soccer team finished 0-3 this weekend in the first edition of the Bahamas Beach Soccer Challenge. After holding the United States (U.S.) to just one goal the majority of the game, team Bahamas eventually fell 4-2 to the U.S. in the tournament’s third and fourth placement game at the Bahamas Football Association’s (BFA) Beach Soccer Facility....

Pan American Games gold medalist Jeffery Gibson’s hot start to the 2018 outdoor season continued on Saturday, at the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, United States, as Gibson delivered one of his best performances of the year so far, capturing gold in the elite men’s 400-metres (m) in 49.09 seconds. Against some stiff competition, Gibson, representing Nike, got off...

Two relay teams represented the Bahamas over the weekend at the annual Penn Relays in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with the men’s 4x400 metre (m) team picking up a silver medal in the US vs the World themed race and the women’s sprint medley relay team placing fourth overall in the event final. The team of Ramon Miller, Teray Smith, Michael Mathieu...

The Commonwealth Bank Giants basketball club won its second championship in a matter of weeks, going undefeated over the weekend in the Bahamas Basketball Federation's (BBF) annual Round Robin Tournament in Freeport, Grand Bahama. On the heels of a dominant performance in New Providence Basketball Association (NPBA) finals, the Giants pulled out an 86-80 win over the Fast Track Gym...

The country’s men’s national beach soccer team opened up the 2018 Bahamas Beach Soccer Challenge with a 5-1 loss to Mexicoon Friday night. The game was the first of three matches Team Bahamas plays at the Bahamas Football Association’s (BFA) Beach Soccer Facility this weekend. Benjamin Mosco delivered on a pair of goals in the game, while Angel Rodriguez, Jair German...

Tax concessions that will be offered through the Over-The-Hill Redevelopment Programme will only be made available for a period five years, according to the White Paper tabled by Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis in Parliament earlier this week. The term ‘empowerment zone’ will be the new term to reflect areas like the over-the-hill communities and will include other specified regions...

The Department of Statistics (DOS) currently has no way to measure how much money the country loses due to corruption, according to DOS Assistant Director Clarice Turnquest. At a press conference on Friday, Turnquest said, she was unsure if facts of corruption are even able to be accounted for. Her sentiments were echoed by DOS Acting Director Leona Wilson who...

The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.7 per cent in 2017, according to the latest figures released by the Department of Statistics (DOS). In a statement, the DOS said, the main industries contributing to this growth in GDP were “construction, wholesale and retail trade, business services of a professional nature, administrative business services and arts.” Government consumption increased...

Bahamas Petroleum Company (BPC) has lodged an application for ‘environmental authorisation’ with the government of The Bahamas for offshore drilling rights, which represents the first step in commencing offshore field activity, according to the company. In a statement Thurday, the company said, an application for environmental authorisation has been submitted in the prescribed form, as directed by the Ministry of...

Millions of dollars in potential group business has been pledged by the head of African American media powerhouse, Black Enterprise (BE). On a recent visit to New Providence BE President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Earl “Butch” Graves Jr. promised potential group movements to the country from his organization, with a projected value of millions of dollars. At a meeting...

One of the country’s premier track and field athletes signed her letter of intent (LOI) to compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I earlier this week. Acacia Astwood received a full four-year scholarship to participate as a member of the Rebels athletic team at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The CARIFTA bronze medalist said she’s looking forward...

Awards continue to roll in for Danielle Thompson, a senior at Morgan State University, after she received athlete of the week honors for the third time last Monday. Thompson this week, was named the 2018 Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Player of the Year in women’s tennis, as announced by the league office in Norfolk, Virginia. Thompson, who was also named to...

Champ Stuart finally broke his hitting slump on Thursday night in the Binghamton Rumble Ponies' 5-4 win over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats. In the third inning, Stuart grounded into a 6-4-3 double play for the Rumble Ponies. Just prior to that, he dropped to 0-for-20 on the season. Stuart walked in his next two at-bats and then led off the ninth inning...

The Bahamas Development Bank (BDB) has three years to completely wean off of the financial assistance of the government according to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest. The mandate came at a press conference held at the BDB Thursday where Turnquest said the bank’s board has already been notified of the timeline. “As the bank strengthen its...

Despite the sale of the Grand Lucayan Hotel “taking longer than projected”, Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest said the agreement will be “finalized very shortly”. In an exclusive interview with Eyewitness News on the sidelines of a press conference at the Bahamas Development Bank Thursday, Turnquest said all of the major points in the proposed deal have been finalized and...

More than 400 lots will be made available through government for homeownership nationwide as the government prepares to launch an ambitious housing initiative this summer Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis revealed at the opening of the Global Network Conference Wednesday evening. “Soon after the budget is passed this year, the Ministry of Housing will launch the first 20 to 30...

A court order compelling that all documents pertaining to former senator Frank Smith's bribery  and extortion case be turned over to the defense's legal team has been issued. The order, approved by Justice Gregory Hilton dated April 23, mandates that Smith's lawyers receive "copies of any and all resolutions of the board of the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) between January...

Agribusiness has the potential of leading the way as The Bahamas prepares to ascend to the World Trade Organization (WTO) according to Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest who said, once farmers have a business environment to thrive, consistency is inevitable. “Persons are taking products beyond growing,” Turnquest said while speaking at The Bahamas Development Bank (BDB) open house on Thursday....