BAHAMAS BREAKING NEWS

Thursday, September 10th, 2026

Thursday, September 10, 2026

Thursday, September 10th, 2026

BAHAMIAN basketball standout Tavario Miller was part of history in Mexico, helping the Mineros de Zacatecas capture the Copa Value 2026 for the first championship in the franchise’s history.

It is a sentence I hear far too often in sports medicine. Sometimes it is the hamstring that has now strained for the third time. Sometimes it is an ankle that seems to turn every basketball season, a shoulder that settles down during rest but begins hurting again as soon as throwing increases, or…

REBELS moved one win away from the New Providence Amateur Baseball League championship, edging Reapers 5-3 last night at the Andre Rodgers National Baseball Stadium to take a 2-1 lead in the championship rematch series.

ELIZA Denning’s run at the ISA World Junior Surfing Championships came to an end yesterday, but the young Bahamian leaves El Salvador with valuable experience from competing against some of the best junior surfers in the world.

BAHAMAS Grid Company (BGC) says it has cut the backlog of legacy underground electric cable faults by almost 50 percent since it took over management of New Providence’s transmission and distribution network in April.

AN OPPOSITION MP yesterday demanded written guarantees that properly licensed Cabbage Beach vendors will be allowed to return following proposed erosion control works as the Ministry of Tourism affirmed planned fencing and pilings are temporary and will not restrict public access.

BAHAMA Rock yesterday confirmed it will likely “close permanently” if the Government fails to approve access to a new aggregate source on the 515-acre former Bahamas Cement Company property that it acquired last year.

A BAHAMIAN developer yesterday warned this nation will become “increasingly uncompetitive in construction” versus its Caribbean rivals if Bahama Rock’s aggregate production halt leads to protracted supply shortages and worsens already-spiking materials costs.

Doctors Hospital plans to slash the deposit requirement for patients to access its emergency room services by one-third after cutting losses on unpaid medical bills and other assets below its annual 3 percent of sales target ratio.

FOR Americans of a certain age, there was for decades one singular, defining question: “Where were you when JFK was shot?”

THE impending visit of King Charles as king of The Bahamas and head of state is anachronistic. Celebrating the British monarch as our sovereign is archaic, a relic of the past for a sovereign country still glorying in colonial fawning and servility.

ABACO residents have been warned to stay away from large snakes and immediately report suspected Burmese python sightings as officials investigate whether the potentially invasive species is present on the island.

IMMIGRATION rights activist Louby Georges has backed calls for parents to ensure children who cannot speak English receive language instruction before entering public schools, arguing that placing them directly into English-only classrooms puts both students and teachers at a disadvantage.

COURT of Appeal President Justice Milton Evans has warned that mandatory retirement ages are draining the Bahamian judiciary of experienced judges, saying some are forced from the bench just as they reach their professional stride and later take their expertise to other countries.

THREE months after primary school teacher Jillian Pinder was abducted from her Lake Cunningham home, stabbed in the throat and left for dead, no one has been charged with her killing and her family says it remains desperate for answers.

THE United States is investing $245,000 to restore Fort Montagu, including major conservation work on its historic cannons, as part of an effort to preserve one of The Bahamas’ oldest surviving military landmarks.

A DOCTOR testified that he examined a woman the day after she was allegedly raped and physically assaulted by the father of her child in Exuma in 2024 as his trial continued.

The owners of Highbourne Cay turned down a luxury brand's resort pitch. They're betting that scarcity is worth more than density.

# The Committee’s meeting was convened by the Bahamas National Statistical Institute (BNSI) as part of efforts to advance the national strategy for the development of statistics (NSDS). The latter brings together representatives from bodies that produce and use official statistics.

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