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• Speaker wants to make PM answer questions
  House Speaker Halson Moultrie said yesterday that he is minded to introduce in the House of Assembly a prime minister’s question time where the prime minister will be obligated to answer questions put to him by any member of Parliament. However, it is unclear what provision in law or in the House rules Moultrie can […]
• Dames says more than 12,000 new voters added to the register since 2017
  More than 12,000 new voters were added to the voters register since 2017, Minister of National Security Marvin Dames said yesterday. “As of March 2nd, 2021, after purging, there are 187,640 registered persons, which reflects a 6,097 increase or three percent increase of registrants from the 2017 register,” Dames said during the debate of the mid-year budget. […]
• On the ground in Andros, mixed views on Forbes’ decision
  Mangrove Cay and South Andros MP Picewell Forbes was a “lousy MP” and it is time for the constituency to see a change, Karis Rolle-Davis, a resident of Calabash Bay, said yesterday. But other residents said Forbes did his best and was at the mercy of successive administrations, which did little for the constituency. Forbes announced on […]
• Abaco man is the latest to die from COVID-19
  A 58-year-old from Abaco is the latest person to die from COVID-19 in The Bahamas, the Ministry of Health reported.  In it’s daily dashboard, the ministry said the latest victim died on March 1.  The total number of COVID deaths in The Bahamas now stands at 181.  Thirty-nine deaths are classified as non-COVID deaths and 15 […]
• Dames says police seeing success from ShotSpotter system
  Of the more than 1,000 gunshot reports responded to by police in 2020, 44 percent of them were detected by ShotSpotter, Minister of National Security Marvin Dames said yesterday. “Our investment is reaping dividends by aiding in the quick response of officers to reported gunshot incidents,” he said during debate of the mid-year budget. “In […]
• Goodman seeking permission to appeal conviction
  The Court of Appeal will on Friday continue to hear arguments on whether convicted child killer Kofhe Goodman should be granted permission to appeal. Goodman, otherwise known as Eduardo Ferguson, was convicted of the murder of 11-year-old Marco Archer following a second trial in May 2017. The schoolboy went missing after leaving his mom’s Brougham […]