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Thousands of passengers planning for a vacation in the Bahamas were shocked when they discovered the cruise ship was heading to Canada.

Friday, October 23rd, 2026

AN OPPOSITION senator yesterday challenged the Government's data sovereignty ambitions, arguing that persistent electricity outages must be addressed before The Bahamas can realistically pursue an artificial intelligence (AI) economy.

THE GOVERNMENT is moving to close a gap in the Bahamas' corporate legislation that allows ownership of company shares to be transferred through physical certificates without the same formal registration required for ordinary registered shares.

ON the first day of my recent International Visitor Leadership Programme (IVLP) in the United States, a term emerged during our discussions that would eventually shape how I viewed the entire experience - the sports ecosystem. At first, it seemed like a convenient way to describe the many…

THE Ministry of Youth and Sports (MOYS) Panthers bounced back from their opening loss to level their best of five semi-final series against the Police Crimestoppers at one game apiece, while the Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) Shockwaves opened their series against the defending champions Nassau…

THE ATTORNEY General yesterday dismissed questions about the Government’s handling of the National Investment Fund (NIF), declaring that “nobody backed a dump truck up to the Central Bank” to remove hundreds of millions of dollars in cash.

For many Bahamian entrepreneurs, starting a business is a major achievement.

THE ATTORNEY General yesterday defended the need for tighter financial services laws as the Bahamas seeks to protect its international standing, arguing that anti-financial crime measures are not merely a response to foreign pressure.

A BAHAMIAN businessman yesterday argued that international investor and capital markets confidence in the country “couldn’t be clearer” after the Government confirmed its new $1.1bn bond was more than three times’ over-subscribed.

THE GRAND Bahama Chamber of Commerce’s president yesterday asserted that losing Freeport’s free trade zone model is “not an option” while pledging that businesses will “fight against losing their rights” under proposed governance reforms.

A GRAND Bahama attorney yesterday suggested the “huge discrepancy” between the value of recorded construction permits and projects actually starting is due to the two-stop shop “bottleneck” caused by investors also having to seek approvals from Nassau.

The Government risks “throwing the baby out with the bath water” on proposed Freeport governance reforms, an ex-Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce president warned yesterday, amid talk of investors “sitting this one out until the dust clears”.

IF you are reading these words on publication day, October 23, it’s likely I will be delivering similar ones to the most unlikely of audiences – high level content creators.

This weekend the Free National Movement will meet to determine its way forward.

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WHEN I arrived in Nassau, I made a simple promise: the United States wants to partner with The Bahamas.

ATTORNEY General Wayne Munroe says the family of an inmate who died weeks after being sent back to prison would not have been watching him while he served his time, as he questioned their claims that the prison neglected him.

A COLOMBIAN drug dealer accused of working with “multiple corrupt RBPF officials” to smuggle tonnes of cocaine through The Bahamas into the United States is set to change his plea, months before a high-profile trial involving former Chief Superintendent Elvis Nathaniel Curtis and Jonathan ‘Player’…

THE Davis administration’s chief spokesman told the Senate yesterday that The Bahamas’ relationship with the United States was not under strain, and challenged anyone who said otherwise to “produce their evidence”.

US Ambassador Herschel Walker has publicly accused the Davis administration of telling investors that in The Bahamas, “the rules can change after you have already made the investment”, in an extraordinary intervention following the government’s plan to take over regulatory power in Freeport from…

Prime Minister Philip Davis, the PLP's 33 of 41 seats, the FNM opposition, Cabinet, courts, police and defence force explained.