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Beach warden plan to clean up litter

BEACH litter is a big concern in Grand Bahama and efforts are underway to monitor and protect one of the country’s most valued assets.

Florida students bring their classroom to Grand Bahama

TEACHERS and students from Fleming Island High School in Jacksonville, Florida visited Grand Bahama as part of a travelling classroom experience.

Three in hospital after shootings

POLICE are appealing to the public for assistance in solving a shooting incident in an inner-city community yesterday that left three people in hospital.

Law would give power of secret entry to homes and businesses

THE Interception of Communications Bill gives police officers the power to obtain warrants to “secretly” enter into homes and businesses in order to seize communications and install interception devices within them, attorney Fred Smith, QC, said yesterday as he continued to campaign for parliamentarians to indefinitely postpone debate on the bill until public consultation takes place.

Concerns as case of PM aide’s killing discontinued

IN view of recent high-profile motions for nolle prosequi, former Attorney General Sean McWeeney yesterday criticised the constitutional system that gives such prosecutorial powers to the attorney general.

'We March' to fight spying bill

WE March Bahamas is urging residents to protest against the proposed Interception of Communications Bill before Parliament which, critics say, can impede civil liberties if passed and enacted without public consultation.

Swimming pigs found dead in Exuma

INVESTIGATIONS are underway to determine what killed a number of swimming pigs in the Exumas, according to officials at the Bahamas Humane Society (BHS) on Sunday.

Man dies, woman wounded after shooting by five masked men

POLICE in New Providence have launched an island-wide manhunt and public appeal for five suspects responsible for a shooting incident on Sunday night that left a man dead and a woman detained in hospital.

Rise in voter registration to 112,000 as election nears

VOTER registration increased to a little over 112,000 as of Saturday, according to government officials.

Burglary suspect shot as two held by police

POLICE caught two alleged shop breakers, one of whom was shot, during a robbery at a business on Chesapeake Road on Saturday.

Two held over drugs

DRUG Enforcement Unit (DEU) officers arrested two men for drug possession in separate operations on Saturday.

Privy Council committee to visit at request of govt

THE Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will be in the country for five days of hearings beginning today.

INSIGHT: Get out and vote

Change is what is needed in the Bahamas and Malcom J Strachan urges voters not to miss their chance to effect it . . .

More than 100 entries to ‘Bahamian ting’ contest

ENTRIES from 124 talented singers, songwriters and musicians from throughout The Bahamas have been received by the Ministry of Tourism for its ‘Da Bahamian Ting’ song competition.

Safety assessment to be carried out around industrial plants

A SAFETY assessment of the Pinder’s Point, Lewis Yard, and Hawksbill communities surrounding the nearby industrial plants should be completed in the next ten to 13 weeks, according to Grand Bahama Minister Dr Michael Darville.

Island life inspires music icon Mike Oldfield

He has sold more than 20 million records worldwide and won numerous awards. His move to the Bahamas was supposed to signal his retirement, but the composer of the famous “Exorcist” theme tells Cara Hunt how the beautiful island surroundings have reignited his creative passion, how Rose Island almost cost him his Olympics call and about the mysteries of Nassau traffic.

Search for hit-and-run driver after motorcyclist dies

POLICE in New Providence are searching for a blue Honda that failed to stop at the scene of an accident on Saturday evening which has left a motorcyclist dead.

Man believed to have drowned off Inagua

POLICE in Inagua are investigating the circumstances surrounding the apparent drowning death of an man on Friday.

Man in hospital after Laird Street shooting

POLICE are searching for a male suspect responsible for a shooting that left a man in hospital.

Man charged with West Bay Street murder

A MAN was remanded to prison on Friday after he was arraigned on a charge of murder in the Magistrate’s Court.

PM hits out at Chipman's boundaries report claim

PRIME Minister Perry Christie on Friday condemned St Anne’s MP Hubert Chipman’s claim that the boundaries report he signed off on differed from the one tabled in the House of Assembly last week.

MOT launches bio-degradable campaign against Styrofoam

WITH support of local wholesale suppliers and retailers, a year-long bio-degradable campaign to reduce Styrofoam was launched on Grand Bahama on Friday.

‘Rollins comments show lack of plan by rebel seven’

FORMER Cabinet minister Tennyson Wells yesterday pointed to the recent statements made by Fort Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins as further evidence that the “rebel seven” acted selfishly, and were only motivated by “spite and pettiness”.

‘Deplorable’ clinic and a failing infrastructure on Spanish Wells

UNREST in the community of Spanish Wells, Eleuthera is at an all-time high, according to the island’s Chief Councillor Robert Roberts who said conditions there have deteriorated to a degree never before seen by residents.

Butler-Turner rejects Gibson suggestion on firearms

OFFICIAL Opposition Leader Loretta Butler-Turner yesterday “rejected outright” Free National Movement Long Island candidate Adrian Gibson’s suggestion that The Bahamas should consider adopting a Right-To-Carry law, as she questioned whether the FNM shared this position.