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Couple going back to school after 34 years of marriage

IMAGINE being 62 and returning to the classroom for the first time since graduating high school.

Rahming: ‘I’m very proud of our’ CARIFTA judo team

ALTHOUGH the task was much greater than anticipated, Bahamas Judo Association president D’Arcy Rahming said they weathered the storm and Team Bahamas was able to pull off a successful hosting of their first Carifta Judo Championships.

PLP Chairman blasts Minnis for ‘bad’ candidates

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Chairman Bradley Roberts has castigated Free National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis saying his “failed leadership” has led the party to select “bad and unfit” candidates to run for the impending 2017 general election.

Mitchell says ‘follow the money’ before deciding who to vote for

CAMPAIGN finance concerns are likely to be a mainstay for the 2017 election campaign cycle, with Cabinet minister and Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell warning Bahamians to “follow the money trail” in reference to opposition candidates.

FNM leader doubts voter register will be clean

AS TODAY marks the close of the 2017 voter register, Free National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis was doubtful that the Christie administration could produce a “clean” register before the electorate heads for the polls. This, he said, was a “prerequisite” for a free and fair election.

PM: PLP govt is not perfect

MAKING it clear that his administration “never claimed to be perfect,” Prime Minister Perry Christie is confident that voters across the country will look past unflagging issues of high unemployment and crime to return the Progressive Liberal Party to office.

Two men in hospital after latest shootings

POLICE are seeking the public’s help in locating the suspects responsible for two separate shooting incidents that left two men in hospital on Sunday.

Police Staff Association ‘has refused to meet over NHI’

THE NATIONAL Health Insurance Secretariat has suggested that Police Staff Association executives have refused to meet with the government to address uncertainty over the insurance plans that the armed forces now enjoy.

Senior police officers rise to the rank of deputy commissioner

THE Royal Bahamas Police Force announced yesterday the promotions of two senior police officers to the rank of deputy commissioner.

NHI secretariat dismisses concern over number of doctors signed up

THE National Health Insurance Secretariat is rebuffing criticism of the number of doctors who have registered with the institution as primary healthcare providers.

‘Parties not reaching out to Haitian communities’

POLITICIANS across the political divide have failed to address immigration challenges in their respective platforms, according to radio personality and community activist Louby Georges, who says that parties have decided to “play it safe” with the hot-button issue to the detriment of unregularised persons of Haitian descent and their families.

Two men detained after drug seizure at Bird Cay

TWO men - one of them a Jamaican - are in police custody after a drug seizure in waters near Chub Cay.

UPDATED: Fox Hill man shot dead through window at home

POLICE have made an appeal for information that can lead to the arrest of the suspect who fatally shot a man through a window as the victim was sitting in a bedroom on Saturday morning.

PM reveals Grand Lucayan sale plan at PLP Freeport rally

PRIME Minister Perry Christie revealed on Friday night that a letter of intent for the sale and reopening of the Grand Lucayan Resort has been signed with a new purchaser, whose plans will significantly transform the hotel and the tourism product in Lucaya, Grand Bahama.

BUT President Belinda Wilson 'vindicated' after landslide victory

FOLLOWING a landslide victory over her chief opponent, former vice president Zane Lightbourne, Bahamas Union of Teachers president Belinda Wilson said on Friday that the win has “vindicated” her over the allegations that led to her controversial suspensions from the union. 

Cabbage Beach access protest 'a moral victory'

DESPITE losing their appeal, Halston Moultrie, lawyer for the Cabbage Beach Business Owners Association (CBBOA), said last year’s protest against restrictions to the main access path to the popular Paradise Island beach translated into a moral “victory” for the vendors.

An FNM govt 'would institute Freedom of Information, Fiscal Responsibility Acts on day one'

FREE National Movement (FNM) Free Town candidate Dionisio D’Aguilar has committed his party to several “day one” initiatives should his party triumph in the general election, contending that the ousting of Prime Minister Perry Christie and the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) government would again give way to “good governance” spearheaded by the FNM.

Proclamations to prorogue the House and return to Parliament read

COMMISSIONER of Police Ellison Greenslade, in his capacity as Provost Marshall, read two Proclamations on Friday - one to prorogue the House of Assembly immediately and another to advise of a return to Parliament on Monday.

Central Grand Bahama Independent candidate: This is no time to accept excuses

DONALD Mortimer, the Independent candidate for Central Grand Bahama, is urging Bahamians voters not to be fooled by false hope and empty promises by politicians.

Court affirms 12-year sentence for sexual assault of minor, abetment to abortion

THE Court of Appeal has affirmed the conviction and 12-year sentence of a man who a Supreme Court jury found guilty of sexually assaulting a minor and aiding her into a forced abortion.

Hurricanes blamed as only 300 of promised 1,300 homes are built

THE Christie administration’s inability to fully honour its mandate to build over 1,300 homes before the end of its five-year term is largely the result of the devastation caused by Hurricanes Joaquin and Matthew, Minister of Environment and Housing Kenred Dorsett claimed yesterday.

NHI act comes into force to allow hiring

THE National Health Insurance Act (NHIA) came into force yesterday, providing Prime Minister Perry Christie with the power to establish the NHI Authority, the NHI Secretariat announced.

FNM anger at 72 pages of duplicate registrations

THE Free National Movement has raised “grave concerns” regarding the general election 2017 voter register, among them the discovery of 72 pages of duplicate registrations, names printed of persons born over 200 years ago and some who were born in 2017, according to party Chairman Sidney Collie yesterday.

Ministry denies fast-tracking on immigration before election

THE MINISTRY of Foreign Affairs and Immigration yesterday moved to temper outrage on social media over claims that the government was fast-tracking the naturalisation of people of Haitian descent ahead of the general election.

PLP chairman defensive about Bobo and Toggie

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Bradley Roberts was on the defensive yesterday when he was asked about his party’s relationship with self-proclaimed “gang members” Wisler “Bobo” Davilma and Livingston “Toggie” Bullard.