Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources, Renward Wells, yesterday said he was disappointed in local farmers after a video went viral of a group them protesting in front of the Prime Minister’s Cable Beach office Monday. The video showed the Prime Minister ignoring protestors as he entered his car and sped away. One of the […]
The creation of a National Strategy for the Development of Statistics (NSDS) to guide the development of the incoming National Statistical System (NSS) is a key part of the mandate of Component II: National Statistics of the Public Financial Management and Performance Monitoring Reform (PFM/PMR) Project. In fulfilment of this task, the Ministry of Finance […]
The Point hotel completed its first phase of the multi-billion dollar resort with plans for a boardwalk, additional restaurants and water features. Point President, Daniel Liu, spoke to the expansion. “This project will be done by 2019, the soft opening by April 2020,” Liu said. “From Bay Street to boardwalk, we want to encourage the […]
The Royal Bahamas Defence Force (RBDF) is currently enhancing its detection, tracking and interdiction capabilities according to RBDF Commodore, Telis Bethel, who expressed concern for the recent landing of a Haitian Sloop in the capital on Friday. Last week, Royal Bahamas Police Force officers patrolling the Marshall Road area discovered three undocumented Haitian nationals walking […]
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.
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, […]
Taxi cab services for visitors at Festival Place came to a screeching halt Wednesday morning after Port officials allegedly made an announcement requiring drivers to move a distance away and prohibited their use of available restroom facilities. A taxi driver for more than 10 years, Ricardo Burrows, told Eyewitness News that the industrial unrest has […]
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 […]
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 […]
By JOSH DUBOW, AP Pro Football Writer MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Nick Foles did his best Tom Brady impersonation, leading a late-game comeback to cap a season that began as a backup and ended as Super Bowl MVP. Foles’ journey mirrored Brady’s 16 years ago and ended late Sunday night, with green-and-white confetti falling as delirious Philadelphia […]
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 […]
Englerston MP, Glenys Hanna Martin, says House Speaker, Halson Moultrie, was perverse in naming and suspending her from the House of Assembly last week. While the speaker did not indicate a timeline for the suspension,Hanna Martin, during a press conference at The Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Headquarters Sunday, said she plans to return to the […]
