Tag: Bahamas news
Opposition wins unprecedented clean-sweep in Barbados
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados — The opposition Barbados Labour Party (BLP), led by Mia Mottley, won all of the 30 seats at stake in Thursday’s general election Barbados as she swept aside incumbent prime minister, Freundel Stuart, and the governing Democratic Labour Party (DLP) in an unprecedented clean-sweep. After a somewhat chaotic day, with an emergency court […]
WANTED
Police released a composite of the suspect in connection with the assault on the juvenile female which occurred Thursday. Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the man pictured is asked to contact the police at 911 or 919, the Central Detective Unit at 502-9991 or Crime Stoppers at 328-TIPS.
One dead after industrial accident
A man is dead after succumbing to injusries following an industrial accident Thursday. According to reports, shortly after 3:00 p.m. yesterday, an employee of a construction company was standing on a scaffolding, while working on a high rise condominium complex, West Bay Street, when it collapsed causing the man to fall to the ground. Paramedics were […]
OPINION: Stopover tourism is back
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Analysis: After Trump pullout, NKorea changes tune on summit
TOKYO (AP) — President Donald Trump’s decision to walk away from a plan to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un next month in Singapore caught a lot of people off guard, including, it appears, Kim Jong Un. Every indication is that Pyongyang still wants to make the meeting happen. And as soon as possible. […]
Officials: Weinstein to surrender in sexual misconduct probe
NEW YORK (AP) — Harvey Weinstein was expected to turn himself in to police Friday morning to face charges involving an aspiring actress who said he forced her to perform oral sex on him, law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. It would be the first criminal case against Weinstein to come out of the […]
A third girl assaulted
Another young girl was sexually assaulted in the Big Pond Community on Thursday. Eyewitness News understands that the assault took place behind a building at the rear of the Big Pond public park between National Insurance Board (NIB) headquarters and Yellow Elder Primary School on Baillou Hill Road. The incident happened shortly after 2:00 p.m. […]
PM addresses Haitian community ahead of demolition deadline
As the July 31 deadline fast approaches for shanty town residents to find proper dwelling or face eviction, Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis addressed the Haitian community last night at the 24th Annual International Crusade of the League of Haitian Pastors. There was standing room only at the Church of God Auditorium on Joe Farrington Road, as […]
Shanty town deadline unrealistic, says activists
Shanty town residents are not prepared to relocate by end of July as they face multiple challenges with the two-month deadline, according to one local human rights advocacy group. Rights Bahamas President Stephanie St. Fleur said Wednesday that shanty town residents are not prepared to leave their homes come July 31. St. Fleur, who appeared […]
More details on alleged Atlantis suicide
The 25-year-old who was found lifeless in a hotel room in Atlantis, Paradise Island last week, was a crew member on a luxury yacht, according to the South African Times Live website. The website, which quoted the boyfriend of the deceased said, Carla van Eeden, who resided in South Africa, was working on the yacht […]
Man murdered while children slept nearby
Two murders, in two separate shooting incidents in New Providence, bumped the country’s murder count to 37 Thursday. Police have yet to positively identify the victims who were gunned down shortly after midnight and 6:00 a.m. yesterday morning. Police revealed that the man who was shot during a home invasion on Lobster Avenue off Baillou […]