ANY changes to the country’s Sexual Offences Act in consideration of calls to criminalise marital rape are off the table until next year as the government prioritises more pressing legislative matters, Attorney […]
THE National Emergency Management Agency has received $1.8m worth of assistance from the government of Japan to help improve the organisation’s logistics capability in the event of a major hurricane. #During a […]
THE Bahamas could attract “hundreds of millions” of dollars as a medical cannabis “hub”, a Jamaican scientist said yesterday, urging the Government to “move quickly” or lose out. #Dr Henry Lowe, a […]
THE Medical Association of The Bahamas is hosting the country’s first medical marijuana symposium on Wednesday. #In July, MAB president Dr Marcus Cooper told The Tribune there had not been widespread consultation with its […]
The 2018 decline in already-troubling education standards “is a national disaster” for Bahamian economic growth and employment prospects, governance reformers warned yesterday. #Robert Myers, the Organisation for Responsible Governance’s (ORG) principal, told […]
INVESTIGATORS have travelled to the United States to interview victims of the June Four C’s boat explosion in Exuma that left a woman dead and two others with amputated limbs, according to […]
AN agreement was signed yesterday between the Ministry of Education and BTC to upgrade internet access in all government schools across the country. #As a result of the five-year contract, more than […]
THE government Friday agreed to postpone the imposition of its new five per cent gaming house patron tax until there is a hearing on October 5th in the Supreme Court. #The sliding […]
WITH high rates of prostate cancer in the country, a cancer research group from the United States is due back in Grand Bahama today to continue ongoing research of the BRCA gene […]
The $65m Grand Lucayan deal “is not a cataclysmic event” for the Government’s finances, a Cabinet minister argued yesterday, insisting: “We think we’ve hit a home run.” #Dionisio D’Aguilar, minister of tourism […]
