The Big Story

The New Providence landfill is one step closer to having a management company at the helm as Minister of the Environment & Housing, the Hon. Romauld S. Ferreira, released the shortlist of seven qualified firms chosen from 18 applicants for the position on Thursday. Companies shortlisted are: - Apapa International (Nassau) Ltd. - Bahamas Waste - Bahamas WPT Ltd. -...

Police are searching for the suspects responsible for a shooting incident that left one person dead and two others hospitalized late Friday evening. The incident occurred at and night club on Hutchinson Street off Poinciana Drive just after 11 p.m. According to police reports, three men entered the club and got into an argument with one of the club's patrons....

A man is dead after being hit by a bus when he was attempting to cross the street in Grand Bahama yesterday. The unidentified victim was struck by a 2001 blue Van Tour Bus traveling along Coral Road and Settlers Way around 8 a.m. yesterday. The male pedestrian died at the scene and police are investigating the matter. This is...

Royal Bahamas Defense Force (RBDF) marines discovered a wooden sailing sloop packed with 25 Haitian nationals shortly before 4 a.m. this morning. The marines were acting on a tip from police after the officers apprehended three other undocumented Haitian nationals in the Marshall Road area. Immigration officers also joined the search and investigations are ongoing.  

A man is dead after he was struck by the driver of a truck on the Tonique Darling Williams Highway shortly after 12.a.m Friday. According to police the victim was walking in the northeast bound lane on the highway when he was shit  by a 1998 Ford F150 Truck. Paramedics were called to the scene but were unable to revive him...

Senators representing the Progressive Liberal Party were a complete ‘no show’ yesterday after all four members of the Opposition were suspended in the House of Assembly by Speaker, Halson Moultrie, on Wednesday. Representatives Fred Mitchell, along with JoBeth Davis, Michael Darville and Clay Sweeting, withdrew from this morning’s proceedings. According to a press release from the Office of the Leader...

Today at Buckingham Palace, The Queen received His Excellency, Mr. Ellison Greenslade, on his appointment as High Commissioner for the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Mrs. Greenslade was also received by Her Majesty. Greenslade is the former commissioner of police for the Royal Bahamas Police Force.

POLICE are on the hunt for the person responsible for a shooting incident that left one man dead late Wednesday night. The murder, which, occurred shortly before 10 p.m. in West Ridge, took the country’s murder count to 11 for the year, according to Eyewitness News records. Police say the victim was standing in front of his residence off Munnings Drive when he was...

House Speaker, Halson Moultrie, laid out a verbal attack on retired senior clerk, Maurice Tynes in Parliament Wednesday charging that the former civil servant should "rest in peace." Moultrie was responding to a Letter to the Editor authored by Tynes, who publicly voiced his disdain with the Speaker's suspension of Englerston MP, Glenys Hanna Martin, and comments made by the...

House Speaker, Halson Moultrie, suspended all opposition members for at least two sittings of Parliament during, what members deemed, an extraordinary session Wednesday morning. This followed a vote to singularly suspend Englerston MP, Glenys Hanna Martin, who was named and suspended last week. Cat Island, Rum Cay and Salvador MP, Philip 'Brave' Davis; Exumas and Ragged Island MP, Chester Cooper,...

Boycott to continue until MP returned to parliament Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) members of Parliament and party senators will boycott their respective chambers until Englerston MP, Glenys Hanna Martin, is allowed to return to the House of Assembly, PLP Leader, Brave Davis, announced Tuesday. At a press conference at PLP headquarters, Davis said he attempted to speak with Leader of...

Jean Rony Jean-Charles tearfully embraced his family for the first time in months, moments after he was released from custody pending the outcome of the government’s stay application. After approximately 45 minutes of arguments before Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hilton, legal counsel for the government agreed that Jean-Charles would also not be deported while a decision is made on the...

Olympic gold medalist and Bahamian track star, Shaunae Miller-Uibo solidified herself in track & field history yet again this past weekend, with a matching world-record in the women’s 300 meters at the 2018 New York Road Runners (NYRR) Millrose Games. The Olympian raced a time of 35.45 in the women’s event on Saturday, marking her personal best and earned her...

Victims active or involved as well   A 2017 study on solving the crime problem in The Bahamas, has found that 42 per cent of murder suspects are active gang members or are in some way involved in gang activity. The study entitled Solutions to the Murder Problem also found that 31 per cent of murder victims were also either...

The country's murder count increased by one on Saturday after a shooting incident left a man dead. According to police reports, shortly after 11 p.m., a male went into the Southern Police Station with a gunshot wound to his body and reported that he was in his vehicle at the junction of East and Brougham Streets when he was approached...