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Bahamas Drops As the 49th Best Country to Live In According to The United Nations HDI Report
Swat teams securing the area of Hay Street the scene of a murder in the Bahamas last Thursday.
Nassau Bahamas – The Bahamas is now the second best Caribbean country to live in, according to the latest UN Human Development Index (HDI).
The United Nations list released yesterday placed The Bahamas as the 49th Best place in the world to live. Barbados actually jumped eight points on the index...
THE TRANSFORMATION OF TAINO BEACH
Students of Sunland High School cleaning Taino Beach.
Freeport, Grand Bahama Island – Bahamian artist, Antonius Roberts has embarked on a project to systematically remove and transform the remains of Casuarinas trees uprooted during the hurricane season of 2004, lining the shores of beautiful Taino Beach. These enormous trees have become barriers to the free flow of movement in certain sections...
GRAND BAHAMA YACHT CLUB BLESSES THEIR NEW CLUB HOUSE
Reverend Sobig Kemp, Terence Gape, Maria Christiansen, Erik Christiansen, Steven Olesen, Jessica Marshall, Preben Olesen and Gabriela Corbella stand in front of the new GBYC Club House, Friday, November 23rd set to open by the end of winter.
GRAND BAHAMA ISLAND – On Friday, November 16th, 2007, the management, staff, and builders of the Grand Bahama Yacht Club gathered to bless their new...
THE MONSTER WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS!!
By: Gorman Bannister
He claims to be a changed man because he’s now a grandfather. But only ‘his’ grandchildren will be celebrating this Christmas without missing a beat because the average grandfathers and fathers have lost their jobs or have had their contracts taken away because of Hubert Ingraham’s spiteful policies perpetrated on the average Bahamian. Hubert is the monster who stole...
Crew of Visiting Naval Warship USS KLARKING Participate in BASH Cleanup and Donation of Basketball Equipment
Lt. Shona West, Embassy Military Officer; representatives from the USS KLARKING including Command Master Chief Richard Dean; Mrs. Deanne Huyler, principal and Cyril Hanna, physical education teacher, Woodcock Primary; LCDR Delong Bonner, Navy Liaison Officer and LT. Armand Randolph, U.S. Embassy flanked by students at Woodcock Primary School.
U.S. Navy Warship USS KLAKRING, made a port visit to...
Nurse Insists Daniel Smith Was Fine
Anna Nicole Smith with Larry Birkhead (second from left), son Daniel Smith (fourth from right), Howard K Stern (far right) and unidentified guests at the Playboy Mansion in October 2004. Photo: AP
Hardbeatnews, NASSAU, Bahamas, Weds. Nov. 21, 2007: Daniel Smith, the 20-year-old son of the late Anna Nicole Smith, seemed fine hours before his death, a nurse yesterday testified.
Nursing assistant Francis...
Education Minister Promotes Healthy Eating
By Llonella Gilbert
NASSAU, Bahamas - Minister of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture, the Hon. Carl Bethel encouraged students of the Uriah McPhee primary school to spend their lunch money on healthy balanced meals rather than fizzy sodas and candy.
During a World Diabetes Day 2007 special school assembly Wednesday, Mr. Bethel also implored vendors to stop selling candy and fizzy sodas outside...
FIRSTCARIBBEAN INTERNATIONAL BANK (BAHAMAS) LIMITED AND BAHAMAS FINANCIAL SERVICES UNION SIGN COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT
Nassau Bahamas - FirstCaribbean International Bank and the Bahamas Financial Services Union today signed a five year Industrial Agreement. The signing follows months of intense negotiations.
“We are delighted to be signing this five year agreement with the Bahamas Financial Services Union today. In keeping with our commitment to be First for Employees the agreement provides a market competitive...
Mitchell: EPA Will Benefit Freeport
Hon. Fred Mitchell
Freeport, Grand Bahama – In the statement, Mr. Mitchell briefed the Grand Bahama media on the PLP’s position with regard to the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) with the European Union. He said the success of the Economic Partnership Agreements and a trade deal between Europe and the ACP, “will help to enhance Freeport as a centre for trade in The Bahamas and...
Six Murders in The Bahamas Since Thursday Two Near US Embassy
Investigators carry the body of slain hand bag designer Hal Taylor from his home on West Hill Street. Taylor was found Sunday Morning with multiple stab wounds about the body.
Nassau Bahamas - Just behind Queens Street the address of the American Embassy where murdered victim number 68 Dr. Thaddeus McDonald was discovered on Friday afternoon, and just across the street of the Government House on...

