Tag: Eyewitness News
Crime down 17 percent
Data shows contrasting trend in GB NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Crime is down 17 percent nationwide compared for the first half of the year compared to the same period last year, according Commissioner of Police Anthony Ferguson, who met with the media at Police Headquarters yesterday. However, notwithstanding the dip in crime, the commissioner said certain […]
Davis: Leaked lease agreement is not the same as Post Office deal
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – After a lease agreement was obtained by Eyewitness News, which suggested that former minister for Grand Bahama, Dr. Michael Darville, may have engaged in an alleged conflict of interest, Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) leader Philip Brave Davis on Thursday expressed that the resurfacing of the lease was a deliberate attempt by the Free […]
BTC Unions: BTC expat bosses must go
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Less than 24 hours after Liberty Latin America President and CEO, Balan Nair, issued an apology for his comments made about BTC employees and the prime minister, representatives for BTC’s line staff and managers’ unions not only rejected the apology, but have called for his resignation. Dino Rolle, President of the Bahamas […]
New Gaming Act allows Internet shutdown of non-compliant gaming operators
By Marechan Burrows – Eyewitness News Intern NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Minister of Tourism Dionisio D’Aguilar said yesterday that the amendments to the Gaming Act passed in the House of Assembly yesterday, will allow the Gaming Board, through a special investigative unit, to render gaming houses inoperable by shutting down access to their websites in instances […]
Police-involved shootings down 62 percent
NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Data released by the Royal Bahamas Police Force (RBPF) yesterday revealed that police-involved shootings have decreased by more than half for the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year. According to crime statistics released by Police Commissioner Anthony Ferguson, there were 13 police-involved shootings between January […]
Man charged with Independence Day murder
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – D’javon Johnson, 32, also known as “Twin,” of Cox Way, was arraigned before Chief Magistrate Joyann Ferguson-Pratt for the stabbing death of Nicartha Murphy, which occurred on July 10th. According to police reports, it was shortly after 9:00 p.m. on Independence Day, when two men were in the parking lot of a […]
Mixed reaction to Miss Bahamas contestants
Pageant organizers say teaser video poorly portrayed contestants NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Amid criticisms from some quarters of the public about contestants vying for the Miss Bahamas Universe 2019 title, Anthony Smith, the director of the pageant, defended the young women yesterday and said they embody “confidence and beauty”. The 2019 Miss Bahamas Universe contestant […]
Mother still distraught that missing son was never found
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – A mother of three pleaded Thursday for police and the public to continue their search for her 35-year-old son who has been missing now for almost five years. Andrea Darling, 51, said her son, Nathaniel Higgs, disappeared nearly half a decade ago after accompanying a friend on a boating excursion to Eleuthera. […]
Ministry of Finance team attends IDB meetings in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, the Hon. K. Peter Turnquest (IDB Governor), Financial Secretary Marlon Johnson (Alternate IDB Governor), Deputy Financial Secretary Cherran O’Brien, and Ministry of Finance Economist Laron Neely are attending the 60th Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the Inter-American Development Bank and the Board of Governors of […]
Aliv takes the lead as first corporate sponsor of plastic ban campaign
NASSAU, BAHAMAS– The Ministry of Environment & Housing announced today that telecommunications network provider, ALIV, is leading the charge as the first corporate sponsor of the Plastic Free 242 campaign. The goal of the campaign is to raise awareness about the proposed national single-use plastics ban that will take effect on January 1, 2020, across […]
