The Big Story

Butterrfield Bank announced Craig Barley as its newest managing partner last week. Barley will have overall responsibility for the management and development of Butterfield’s Bahamas based trust business, a key part of Butterfield Group’s global network of trust companies. Hailing from the United Kingdom (UK), Barley served most recently as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Latour Capital DO Brasil, spearheading...

In keeping with its mandate to provide coverage throughout the entire archipelago, the country’s newest telecoms provider – ALIV – added Long Island to its list of Family Island operations. The company rolled out its network to locals at its brand-new Deadman’s Cay location, which officially opened its doors to the public Friday. Chief ALIV Officer Damian Blackburn said, ALIV...

Two new national champions were crowned this weekend as the 2018 Samuel P. Haven/IL Cares Foundation National High School Soccer Championships came to a close at the Roscoe Davies Field. In senior girls’ action, the Lucayan International School (LIS) scored a 2-1 win over Queen’s College (QC). With LIS leading at the start of the second half, Tyra McKenzie scored...

The Cuckoos rugby team captured its third consecutive Bahamas Rugby Football Union (BRFU) championship on Saturday at the Winston Rugby Pitch. The Cuckoos pulled out a hard fought 20-13 victory over Baillou in the 2018 Heineken Cup. Although Baillou registered two high scoring wins in a matter of weeks during the league’s playoffs, the Cuckoos defense managed to do a good job of...

Three of the country’s premier track and field athletes competed at the 2018 Grenada Invitational over the weekend in St. George’s, Grenada. Tynia Gaither, Alonzo Russell and Leevan “Superman” Sands, all secures top 10 finishes in their respective events. In the women’s 200-metre (m) dash, Tynia Gaither captured a bronze medal in 23.62 seconds. American Tori Bowie won the race...

The announcement that some 200 employees will be made redundant over the next 18 months at Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) was premature and misleading, according to Works Minister Desmond Bannister, who insisted on Friday that the separations will be voluntary. In an exclusive interview with Eyewitness News, Bannister said, no one will be terminated from BPL but instead, everyone...

Twenty-four hours after the board of directors at Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) announced a massive restructuring effort to take place within the next 18 months, leaders of the managerial and line staff unions at the electrical company hosted a news conference of their own to ear grievances with the current state of relations between BPL and union executives. It...

After clarifying reports that the Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) Company will not terminate employees but rather offer voluntary separation packages (VSEP) at the appropriate time, General Manager Whitney Haestie revealed that a new business plan for the company is currently being finalized. Company executives came under fire by unions that represent employees following a press conference Thursday, where BPL...

Members of the legal fraternity are considering filing a constitutional motion against the recently passed Criminal Evidence (Witness Anonymity) Amendment Bill, claiming that the legislation is “dangerous” and infringes on the rights of the accused. Noted criminal attorney Romona Farquharson-Seymour is among the group of lawyers speaking out against the bill, which was passed in the House of Assembly (HOA)...

A man and woman were brought before Magistrate's Court Friday to face over a dozen serious charges ranging from fraud to money laundering. Travis Mackey, 36, of Faith Avenue was charged with a total of ten counts of falsification of accounts; two counts of stealing by reason of employment; and one count of laundering the proceeds of criminal conduct. Mackey...

An hours long power outage at the South Street Magistrate’s Court Friday morning caused disarray as persons attending court sessions were unsure what would happen to their pending cases. Eyewitness News Online was in the midst of the crowd which became agitated with the fact that a critical judicial facility was still without electricity. Friday’s outage follows the equipment failure...

Nearly 100 persons attended a Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) sanctioned gambling symposium at Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre  (SRC) last week, aimed at highlighting “the serious effects of gambling and its impact on the well-being of a person’s mental and physical health”. Under the theme ‘Gambling: Fun or Addiction” the inaugural meeting  was designed to raise the level of awareness surrounding gambling in...

The Bahamas men’s beach soccer team will look to improve its world ranking in the next few days when the country hosts the inaugural Bahamas Beach Soccer Cup. The beach cup takes place April 27-29, at the Bahamas Football Association’s (BFA) National Beach Soccer Stadium at Malcolm Park. Competing teams include Mexico, Spain and the United States (U.S.). Team Bahamas’ roster...

Two of the country’s top high school basketball prospects continue to draw interest in the offseason. Over the course of the past week, both Franco Miller Jr. and Wilkenson “Kenny” Isnord have garnered three new National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I scholarship offers between the two. On Thursday, University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) officially offered Miller, who is in...

As a system failure at Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) triggered an island wide power outage yesterday, BPL officials announced that more than 200 employees will be made redundant over the next 18 months. BPL’s Deputy Chairman Patrick Rollins made the revelation Thursday during a press conference at BPL’s headquarters, while laying out the company’s plan for a liquified natural...

Twenty-three individuals were sworn in and granted Bahamian citizenship during a naturalization ceremony at the Department of Immigration yesterday. The process however, was conducted behind closed doors and barred from the public. Eyewitness News attempted to cover that ceremony yesterday but was met with much resistance by Immigration Minister Brent Symonette. Moments before the swearing-in took place, Symonette insisted that...

There are currently 166 bodies in the Princess Margaret Hospital (PMH) morgue, nearly three times its intended capacity, according to Health Minister Dr. Duane Sands. In an interview with Eyewitness News Thursday, Dr. Sands said, Bahamians “just leave” their loved ones at the hospital, most times because they cannot afford an “elaborate” funeral. “The morgue has the capacity for 60...

Health Minister Dr. Duane Sands said he will do “whatever is necessary” to avoid a nurses’ strike and he hopes that all sides can come to a “reasonable resolution” for the benefit of the country. In an interview with Eyewitness News, Dr. Sands said, if it takes redoubling and “re-tripling” his efforts, he will ensure all parties are engaged in...