FTX’s Bahamian liquidators are “shooting for” February 18 as the date to start payouts to small creditors and victims owed less than $50,000 as a result of the crypto exchange’s fraud-driven implosion ...

# Unpaid medical coverage for police officers and the other security forces is “within tolerable” limits, a Cabinet minister asserted yesterday, while denying allegations that the arrears exceed $100m ...

# Roosevelt Whyms, the Appeal Board’s deputy chairman, questioned Tamika Thompson, HotelConsult Bahamas’ attorney, on the status of the lease talks with Atlantis. She said her client is still in ...

# A former Atlantis restaurant manager who was fired for asking a female employee to “show him her ‘sexy body’” has been stripped of his $31,200 damages award for unfair dismissal.

# ASSORTED personalities in the economic and political spheres have long used banking institutions and entrepreneurial inertia as poster and whipping “boys” as to why there is a stark lack of new ...

# A WOMAN was remanded into custody yesterday after being accused of an acid attack in December. # Chief Magistrate Roberto Reckley arraigned Elsie Charles McKinney, 34, on charges of attempted murder ...

# The Tribune is reporting that the government is close to sealing the deal with a legitimate buyer for the Grand Lucayan Resort, when the former administration was prepared to give it away. A ...

# A MAN was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday after admitting to stealing two scooters from a marina on Paradise Island last week. # Senior Magistrate Kendra Kelly arraigned Marvin Pinder, 35 ...

# A BUSINESSMAN was fined in court yesterday after admitting to selling liquor at his store without a licence last week. # Senior Magistrate Kendra Kelly arraigned Ernst Jacques, 53, on charges of ...

# Mr Dames said a swearing-in ceremony will be held on Wednesday for members of the Eight Mile Rock West Township. Once the runoff election winner is determined next week, a swearing-in ceremony will ...

# DARION Smith, who pleaded guilty in 2023 to the 2021 murder of Bella Walker, has failed in his latest attempt to overturn his 25-year prison sentence.

# SUICIDES increased by 33 percent in 2024, while attempted suicides decreased by 38 percent. # According to police statistics released this week, there were eight suicides in 2024, up from six in ...