Denise Maycock

DOG licence tags ran out in Grand Bahama and New Providence days before the government's licensing amnesty expired, and the Humane Society of Grand Bahama says owners worried about getting into trouble have begun surrendering their dogs to its shelter.

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party chairman Fred Mitchell has pressed Carnival and other cruise lines to ensure Port Lucaya Marketplace gets its share of Grand Bahama's growing cruise traffic, after the closure of Agave Restaurant put about 40 people out of work.

POLICE motorcyclist Steven Duncombe had been promoted to sergeant months before the crash that killed him, but never got to wear his new rank, Commissioner of Police Shanta Knowles revealed at his funeral yesterday.

GRAND Bahama residents and community leaders are demanding firm timelines for the redevelopment of the island’s international airport and Grand Lucayan resort ahead of a major announcement by Prime Minister Philip Davis, with some warning that further promises will do little to restore public confidence.

A 21-year-old woman avoided a possible ten-year prison sentence after admitting to smashing the glass door of the man she believed to be her boyfriend’s bar and damaging his vehicle after an encounter with his ex.

IN-PERSON visits to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services have been suspended until further notice because of a cluster of COVID-19 cases in Grand Bahama and New Providence.

THE Grand Bahama COVID-19 cluster is “resolved”, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Michael Darville said yesterday, even as a pharmacist on the island reported a rise in respiratory infections among people seeking medicine.

HYLANDA Sands-Johnson was in New Providence when her phone alerted her that her younger brother’s iPhone had detected a crash in South Andros. She called his number, and someone at the scene picked up.

THE two sons of a British mother who drowned off Bimini watched as people tried to revive her, after she had held one of them in the water until he was rescued.

A GRAND Bahama primary school was without electricity for two straight days this week with no word to parents, according to one parent who said children were left to learn in the dark.