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No state of emergency? Then no restrictions

ATTORNEY Wayne Munroe said the Minnis administration cannot implement COVID-19 restrictions of any kind if the state of emergency is allowed to expire.

Wells says constituencies report not being held back

HEALTH Minister Renward Wells denied yesterday that he and Marco City MP Michael Pintard have acted to ensure the Constituencies Commission does not release its report until Parliament is dissolved for an election.

Davis accuses govt of voter suppression

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis has accused the government of voter suppression based on claims that Hurricane Dorian victims are expected to file police reports at their home islands as a prerequisite for voter registration.

Wynn in new bid to secure property

WITH just under a year to the completion of his Cable Beach development, Paul Wynn is challenging the government to put one of its dilapidated buildings out to tender to remove the eyesore from the area of his investment.

Pinder: I’ll beat copycat Mitchell to Fox Hill seat

JOHN Pinder, the Free National Movement’s candidate for Fox Hill, yesterday officially retired from his post as director of the Department of Labour.

‘DON’T PANIC’: Dames urges would-be voters to stay calm and ignore election guesses

A RUSH of people seeking to register to vote on Monday forced Parliamentary Registration Department centres to extend satellite office hours to accommodate the surge.

‘PM has no choice but to go early’

HOUSE of Assembly Speaker Halson Moultrie believes the Minnis administration is between a rock and a hard place with really no other choice but to call an early election.

Holiday weekend blamed for surge

HEALTH Minister Renward Wells said yesterday the recent spike in COVID-19 cases can be attributed to Independence Day festivities.

Shark Week episode to feature New Providence

South-west New Providence will feature heavily in a Shark Week episode set to be screened during the second week in July, reaching potentially up to 88m homes in 224 countries.

Man denies stealing from car

A 38-year-old man who denied breaking into a woman’s car and stealing $2,000 worth of items was yesterday granted bail ahead of his trial.

Pickpocket offered women rides then took their cash

AN HABITUAL offender who stole money from two elderly women after offering to give them rides had her case adjourned to September pending an evaluation from the Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre.

Police references can now be collected from mall post office

POLICE character references, also known as police records, are now available for collection at the centralised collection centre in the General Post Office at the Town Centre Mall.

Man still missing despite 100-hour search by RBDF

THE Royal Bahamas Defence Force said it has spent 100 hours searching for a man missing at sea after he fell off a jet ski during a collision with a boat on July 11.

Decaying body found in home

POLICE discovered a man’s partially decomposed body in a home on Horseshoe Drive yesterday morning in what they have classified as suspicious death.

One more death and 38 new cases confirmed

THE Ministry of Health reported 38 new COVID-19 cases and one additional death yesterday.

‘Focus on COVID fight’

A SENIOR doctor believes the country should be devoting all of its resources to fighting the COVID-19 pandemic as cases rise and hospital resources remain critical.

Finalists named for UB president

THE University of The Bahamas’ Presidential Search Committee has selected its top three finalists for the position of UB president.

Claims of physical attacks at DNA party meeting

WITH rumours of an early election circulating, the Democratic National Alliance is having its share of problems as members are claiming to have been physically attacked during a party meeting.

PLP criticises advertisement targeting Davis

THE Progressive Liberal Party yesterday hit out at a “defamatory and abusive” television advertisement against party leader, Philip “Brave” Davis, that has been showing on a number of Cable Bahamas channels.

190,000 people registered to vote so far

MORE than 190,000 people had registered to vote as of yesterday morning, about 17,000 more than the number of people registered for the 2017 general election.

Rush to register

VOTER registration centres in New Providence experienced long lines and wait times yesterday as people rushed to register before the next general election.

Customer robbed as he made bank deposit

A MAN was robbed in broad daylight while making a bank deposit in the Harbour Bay Shopping Plaza yesterday.

Bahamians recognised with Queen's New Year’s and Birthday Honours

TWENTY-SIX Bahamians were recognised during a ceremony at Baha Mar yesterday with Queen Elizabeth II’s New Year’s and Birthday Honours for their contributions to national development.

‘Don’t listen to him - only I know the election date’

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis stressed yesterday only he knows the timing of the next general election, not Progressive Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis nor anyone else.

PM CONCEDES COVID SPIKE IS ‘CONCERN’ ...but Minnis says only unvaccinated people are still in pandemic

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said while the spike in COVID-19 cases is concerning, the pandemic is currently only affecting unvaccinated people. His comment came after the country recorded 100 COVID-19 cases on Saturday, the most in a single day since October.