Bahama News

The school year is over and most Oasis Middle School students have put away their books for the summer.

Powerful Hurricane Ike charged across the Atlantic toward the Bahamas and the U.S. east coast on Thursday while Tropical Storm Hannaa s death toll from floods and mudslides in Haiti grew to 90.

Durham residents that use the City's recycling drop-off centers should that note that effective Friday, July 12, 2009, all but one of the centers will be closed.

After doubling in size last year to meet the growing demands of the community, owners of Stop and Shop Grocers are focusing on making residents more health conscious one customer at a time.

Glinton has degrees in law, economics and international relations, and has written extensively on constitutional law.

His column 'Front Porch' is published every Tuesday in the Nassau Guardian. He can be reached at frontporchguardian@gmail.com. Renewing the City of Nassau is a journey of self-definition and discovery: a recollection of history that informs our national longings and forward thinking.

Sam Currin, a former U.S. attorney and protégé of the late U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, may get time shaved off his prison sentence for agreeing to help federal prosecutors try to convict one of Currin's former associates.

Lyndsey Hunnell, 7th Grader at Central Academy wins 2nd Peggy Kirk Bell Golf event in Mooresville, NC.

Special forces on a Portuguese warship seized explosives from suspected Somali pirates after thwarting an attack on an oil tanker, but later freed the 19 men.

Special forces on a Portuguese warship seized explosives from suspected Somali pirates after thwarting an attack on an oil tanker, but later freed the 19 men.

"Bahamian nationalism is a nebulous thing, difficult to describe...Trying to get a handle on what is Bahamian is like trying to catch a fish with one's bare hands." - Nicolette Bethel Last week's article on Bahamian identity and cultural activity generated some comment from the cognoscenti.

The tourism industry is to the Bahamas as oil is to Saudi Arabia, without tourism, life as we have come to experience it in the Bahamas would be vastly different.

Moments after I arrived at the airport in Nassau, a man standing behind a booth placed a complimentary Gombay Smash in my hand.

Discover Bahamian Art and Music By Candyce H. Stapen The islands of the Bahamas-700 of them-- bloom with some of world's loveliest sands.

Sometime ago I wrote this about the Bahamian boa, one of the two snakes that live on this island:Sometimes it just doesn't pay to do a good deed.

As you probably noticed in the last couple days there was a slight hitch in the giddyup on this site.

Just over 20 years ago, a group of top British investigative journalists left their jobs at the Sunday Times to piece together the fantastic tale of the cocaine trade in Colombia, the Bahamas and Miami.

Pirates armed with machine guns hijacked a Norwegian chemical tanker Thursday off the coast of Somalia, the ship's owner said, an attack that came less than 24 hours after a smaller Greek-owned vessel was seized in the same area.

A private insurance agent has been charged with stealing the identity of dozens of North Carolinians including some in Orange County, state investigators announced Monday.

Bahama insurance agent charged with ID theft BY MATT GOAD : The Herald-Sun Mar 24, 2009 BAHAMA -- A Bahama insurance agent has been charged with stealing the identities of more than 100 people.