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Residents sleep in cars as outages plague Golden Gates
1+ hour, 15+ min ago (982+ words) Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) headquarters As of Thursday, July 16, 2026 GOLDEN Gates residents say prolonged power outages have left them sleeping in their vehicles to escape the heat, throwing away hundreds of dollars' worth of food, missing work, showering with garden…...
72,000 BPL customers to get rebates after settlement
5+ hour, 8+ min ago (633+ words) Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) headquarters As of Thursday, July 16, 2026 MORE than 72,000 Bahamas Power and Light customers will receive rebates after BPL abandoned years-long appeals and agreed to return $610,240.94 in regulatory fines imposed over its handling of the crippling power outages…...
72,000 BPL customers to get rebates after settlement | The Tribune
5+ hour, 10+ min ago (633+ words) Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) headquarters As of Thursday, July 16, 2026 MORE than 72,000 Bahamas Power and Light customers will receive rebates after BPL abandoned years-long appeals and agreed to return $610,240.94 in regulatory fines imposed over its handling of the crippling power outages…...
Duke Strachan smiles again as prison officials deliver puppy
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (532+ words) Errol Strachan is pictured with Lassie, a four-month-old Dutch Shepherd puppy gifted to him by the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDOCS). As of Wednesday, July 15, 2026 VETERAN Bahamian musician Duke Errol Strachan is smiling again four months after the fatal…...
Cooper defends foreign teacher push, says Bahamians get priority
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (554+ words) As of Wednesday, July 15, 2026 DEPUTY Prime Minister Chester Cooper yesterday defended the government’s push to recruit potentially hundreds of foreign teachers, insisting Bahamian educators will be given first claim on vacancies as the administration moves to confront a shortage unions…...
Supreme Court denies bail to pilot accused of LPIA murder
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (1593+ words) Geovani Rolle, left, and Donald Ferguson II As of Wednesday, July 15, 2026 SUPREME Court judge has again refused bail to pilot Donald Ferguson, ruling that the murder and drug trafficking accused presents a sweeping array of dangers, from fleeing the country…...
Memorial held for crash victims | The Tribune
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (622+ words) As of Wednesday, July 15, 2026 IN a final roll call for the ten victims who died in the North Andros plane crash on Independence Day, screams and tears filled The Pond as grieving relatives and friends gathered for a candlelight vigil…...
LGBTQ+ Activist calls for hate crime laws
1+ day, 4+ hour ago (882+ words) Alexus D’Marco, founder of the Bahamas Organisation of LGBTI Affairs. As of Wednesday, July 15, 2026 GAY rights activist Alexis DeMarco has called for hate crime legislation after linking a string of recent and historic killings involving people believed to have been…...
Nygard convicted of assault after using Bahamas as lure
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (715+ words) Peter Nygard pictured during his time in The Bahamas As of Tuesday, July 14, 2026 FORMER fashion mogul Peter Nygard has been convicted of sexually assaulting and forcibly confining an 18-year-old aspiring model after luring her to his Montreal penthouse with promises…...
Dad allegedly killed by suspect on bail
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (741+ words) As of Tuesday, July 14, 2026 JUST weeks before he was expected to testify against a man accused of robbing him, businessman James McPhee was allegedly killed by the same suspect in a deadly hit-and-run, according to his family. McPhee, a husband…...