The Big Story

By Clint Watson In what has many Christian believers questioning the tragic way a visiting bishop met his demise, Floridian Bishop Darryl Coleman, 51, died a hero, according to the other three victims who were in the rented dark blue Nissan Sylphy that crashed Saturday morning. The 51-year-old had just opened a two-day revival where he was the guest preacher...

By Clint Watson Mounting concern this weekend went into viral mode as a reported statement circulated warning Bahamians that Royal Bank of Canada and Scotiabank were preparing to leave the country. The alleged statement advised customers to withdraw their funds in order to not lose their money having an outcome similar to the Clico fiasco. The statement caused serious concern...

By Clint Watson Police have confirmed that the woman involved in an alleged obeah incident that went viral over the weekend, is expected to be arraigned before Magistrate’s Court today on charges of trespassing. The woman in the video was seen on the porch during the early morning hours in the dark reportedly attempting to unscrew a lightbulb of the...

Davis claps back at DPM Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) and Opposition Leader Philip Davis said Sunday that Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest blaming Ministry of Finance’s debt on the PLP administration from the previous fiscal year, is false and his narrative to the Bahamian people is “misleading”. In a statement released to the press, Davis indicated that Turnquest was making...

The Bahamas must expand its diplomatic horizons to ward off the threat of blacklisting, said Attorney General (AG) Carl Bethel, as the country remains in limbo awaiting word from the European Union (EU) on whether it has been removed from the EU’s latest blacklist. Last week, Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest said he remained hopeful that government had “done more...

Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis said The Bahamas is pleased that the Lima Commitments are inclusive of tax information exchange, which previously placed small island states at a disadvantage. Addressing the Plenary Session of the Eighth Summit of the Americas Saturday morning, Dr. Minnis said The Bahamas applauds the inclusion of a mandate to establish a hemispheric focus upon tax...

The Bahamas will receive assistance from Jamaican officials to fully implement the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), passed under the former administration, according to Attorney General (AG) Senator Carl Bethel. In an exclusive interview with Eyewitness News on Sunday, Bethel said, further steps will be taken to implement the act beginning next week, with meetings scheduled with the Director of...

Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Fred Mitchell in a statement Sunday demanded an answer from the Ministry of Education as to why it has not approved the generous offer of the private design and build of a new administration building for Sandilands Primary School. According to Mitchell, the new administration building should also be able to accommodate a 40-child preschool....

Women outnumber men in the registration and application for jobs, according to Director of Labor Robert Farquharson. In an interview with Eyewitness News at the latest 'Labor on the Blocks' job fair on Saturday, Farquharson said, with the exception of the construction field, women are turning up in higher numbers than men to apply for jobs, despite the fair offering of...

Police officers on Exuma made a successful drug seizure in Harts Settlement over the weekend. Officers of the Exuma Division of the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) said, acting on information, they went to a beach in Harts Settlement shortly after 2:00 p.m. Friday. The search, according to officers, uncovered a five-gallon bucket which, contained a quantity of suspected marijuana....

A conservation war on plastic grocery bags is about to be launched as thousands of free reusable shopping bags will be put in the hands of shoppers this coming weekend, as Abaco Markets Limited (AML) Foods Ltd. will commemorate Earth Day with its 3rd annual Bring Your Own Bag (BYOB) event on Sunday. That weekend, the company hopes to distribute more than 10,000...

Bahamian professional boxer Edner Cherry scored a unanimous decision win over Dennis Galarzaon Friday night. Cherry, who started off sluggish, dominated the second half of the FS1 televised fight from The Armory in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Cherry (37-7-2, 19 KOs) won by scores of 97-93, 96-94 and 96-94 over Galarza (16-3, 9 KOs). While Galarza pounded Cherry with combinations throughout the early...

Olympian Pedrya Seymour from the University of Texas, was one of several Bahamian collegiate track and field athletes that turned in stellar performances over the weekend. At the 2018 Texas Invitational, Seymour won the women’s 110-metre (m) hurdles in a wind-aided 13.16 seconds and ran the first leg on the Longhorns’ women’s 4x100m relay team that captured gold in the...

The Commonwealth Giants won back to back games over the weekend, to capture the New Providence Basketball Association (NPBA) Division I title. On Friday, the Giants beat the Rockets basketball club 101-88 at the A. F. Adderley Gymnasium, and followed that up with a 96-85 win to clinch the league title. Gamaliel Rose had 24 points to lead the Giants...

After a busy weekend in local soccer, the first-round matchups for the 2018 Samuel P. Haven/ Island Luck (IL) Cares National High School Soccer Championships, are locked in. Prior to Friday, only four boys and girls’ teams, had qualified to compete in the upcoming nationals, seeing that only the Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) had completed its 2017 –...

A Guyanese man, convicted of importing cocaine to The Bahamas in his body, claimed in court on Friday that he was “tricked” into becoming a drug mule by a Bahamian woman. Nkrumah Langhorne, 29, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to possession of dangerous drugs with the intent to supply, conspiracy to possess dangerous drugs with the intent to supply, importation of...

Member of Parliament (MP) for Englerston Glennys Hanna-Martin yesterday criticized Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis, for “excessive and extravagant travel”, so soon into the his first term as leader of the country. In an interview with Eyewitness News, Hanna-Martin said, this is just another chapter in a continuing series of about turns and hypocritical stances, that were previously taken by...