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CABINET will discuss the committee to be given responsibility for holding town hall meetings on the possible legalisation of medical marijuana in the country when it meets on Monday, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced yesterday.
A MAN is in hospital after he was stabbed by a group of men during an argument on a boat in waters off Rose Island that was caught on cell phone video. According to police, shortly after 7pm on Tuesday, a man was on Rose Island when he got into a fig
THE Department of Housing launched its service lot initiative at Sunset Close off Carmichael Road yesterday.Called the Sunset Close Subdivision Extension, Housing and Environment Minister Romauld Ferreira said it adds an additional ten service lots t
MINISTER of Agriculture and Marine Resources Michael Pintard believes that Andros has the potential to be “the breadbasket not only of The Bahamas but the Caribbean and North America”.“Keep the faith, Andros can be transformed,” the minister told And
ANGLICAN Archdeacon James Palacious wants marijuana possession reduced to a misdemeanour so it would not show up on a person’s police record, but he opposes the complete decriminalisation of the plant, saying Bahamians have more than enough vices alr
REACH Out Youth Organisation (ROYO) received a much-needed donation on Wednesday from a US church group that is visiting Grand Bahama this week. Jeff Shipley, senior pastor of Whitten Baptist Church in Memphis, Tennessee, and several members of his c
WORKS Minister Desmond Bannister yesterday announced a $1.2m allocation for infrastructural upgrades at Bahamas Power and Light’s Clifton Pier substation.Addressing the June 25 island-wide outage, where a lightning strike disabled the station’s entir
FORMER Cabinet minister Cornelius Alvin Smith, a veteran of past Ingraham administrations, was sworn in as deputy to the governor general yesterday.Mr Smith is seen as the frontrunner to eventually succeed Dame Marguerite Pindling as governor general
FORMER Agriculture Minister Tennyson Wells yesterday expressed support for the government’s shanty town clearing exercise, telling The Tribune he feels it will engender increased integration of the Haitian community.Mr Wells said he felt that individ
FREE National Movement Chairman Carl Culmer yesterday defended the decision to posthumously award Sir Roland Symonette with the Order of National Hero, saying the country’s former premier singlehandedly “did more for black people” than some people of colour.
BUSINESSES behind on National Insurance Board contributions, business licence fees and real property taxes will not be granted concessions through the Over-the-Hill revitalisation programme, according to the Economic Empowerment Zones Bill which was tabled in the House of Assembly yesterday.
THE Cabinet Office yesterday confirmed Chief Justice Stephen Isaacs has been formally appointed to the substantive post after months of speculation.
BAHAMAS Christian Council President Bishop Delton Fernander’s criticism of government over the value added tax increase during the Independence Day celebration was “unfortunate” and “premature”, Deputy Prime Minister K Peter Turnquest has said.
AFTER a successful debut last year, Waterkeepers Bahamas is again hosting Splashmania Kayak Race on Saturday at the Manta Ray Village at Silver Point Beach, Grand Bahama.This second year promises to be even better with lots of fun water and land acti
THE family of the late Marcus Bethel, founder of Bethel Brothers Morticians, recently unveiled the Jane and Marcus Bethel Scholarship Award in memory of their beloved parents. Bethel fathered seven children Justice Rubie M Nottage (retired), Dr Pamel
THE Progressive Liberal Party’s plan to form a review panel on legal marijuana use was met with scepticism by Free National Movement Chairman Carl Culmer, who said the proposal is evidence of the party’s “neglect” of the Bahamian people when last in
THE Bahamas, in its push for more comprehensive and modern development, can take cues from the full-concept Shanghai master plan recently exhibited in China, according to Works Minister Desmond Bannister.In a communication to Parliament yesterday on
THE Bahamas National Trust is celebrating ten years of facilitating a nature and environmental awareness camp for local youth.In a press release, the BNT revealed that in the span of one decade, 300 teenagers have partaken in Eco Camp – an annual sum
THE Court of Appeal has reserved its decision on whether it will accede to Grand Bahama businessman Edward Barrett’s appeal of his four-year sentence for gun and ammunition smuggling.In January, Barrett was sentenced to four years in prison by Magist
A SENIOR magistrate yesterday ordered a dozen Haitian men to be deported out of the country after they all pleaded guilty to illegally landing on Inagua earlier this week.Deputy Chief Magistrate Subusola Swain gave the 14 migrants, between the ages o
A MAN is dead after being struck by lightning Wednesday afternoon, according to police.
HEALTH Minister Dr Duane Sands yesterday attacked the scientific credibility of CARICOM’s report on marijuana, expressing disappointment over its methodology and “intrinsic bias”.Dr Sands’ critique follows Bishop Simeon Hall’s suggestion that opposit
BAHAMAS Christian Council President Bishop Delton Fernander is calling for the country to be led by “progressive innovation”, as opposed to regressive policies such as tax increases.
RASTAFARIAN communities in The Bahamas are calling for reparatory justice in the form of state recognition and inclusion as national discourse over marijuana law reform picks up steam.
WHILE indicating support for the legal use of medical marijuana, former Prime Minister Perry Christie said the government must understand the implications of withholding the drug from those who really need it for various health challenges.