The Min­is­ter of Cul­ture and Com­mu­ni­ty De­vel­op­ment has re­vealed that the to­tal cost to es­tab­lish and op­er­ate the Fla­va Vil­lage ini­tia­tive dur­ing the Car­ni­val 2026 pe­ri­od amount­ed to $16,164,663.75.

The U.S. on Wednes­day lift­ed sanc­tions on Venezuela’s act­ing Pres­i­dent Del­cy Ro­dríguez, ac­cord­ing to an Of­fice of For­eign As­sets Con­trol en­try on the Trea­sury De­part­ment web­site.

Two hik­ers who be­came lost in the North­ern Range be­tween Mon­day March 30 and Tues­day March 31, 2026 were res­cued by of­fi­cers of the Air Sup­port Unit.

Iran kept up its at­tacks on Is­rael and Per­sian Gulf neigh­bors on Wednes­day as airstrikes pound­ed Tehran and U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump again made con­tra­dic­to­ry state­ments about whether he was ready to wind down the war or es­ca­late it.

The Cen­tral Bank of The Ba­hamas (CBB) says while the eco­nom­ic out­look for the coun­try re­mains pos­i­tive, it could al­so be “sig­nif­i­cant­ly” erod­ed if the Mid­dle East con­flict be­comes pro­tract­ed.

Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the theft of a handy­man’s gold ring from a wash­room at the St James Po­lice Train­ing Acad­e­my ear­ly on Tues­day morn­ing.

A 29-year-old man is hos­pi­talised af­ter he was se­vere­ly beat­en and chopped dur­ing an ear­ly morn­ing at­tack on Mon­day.

In­stead of prepar­ing for the first birth­day of her in­fant son, Leona Allen now has to make fu­ner­al arrange­ments for her son and com­mon-law hus­band, af­ter an ear­ly morn­ing shoot­ing in Dun­don­ald Hill, St James.

A prison of­fi­cer is among the lat­est batch of peo­ple who were served with Pre­ven­tive De­ten­tion Or­ders (PDOs) un­der the State of Emer­gency (SoE).

The Na­tion­al Union of Gov­ern­ment and Fed­er­at­ed Work­ers (NUGFW) has signed off on a ten per cent wage in­crease, a deal that will cost the State $2.6 bil­lion in back­pay and add $252 mil­lion an­nu­al­ly to the na­tion­al wage bill.

Teach­ers re­main in the dark over their back­pay, as the Chief Per­son­nel Of­fi­cer (CPO) now says he is not aware of when the pay­ment would be made, de­spite the Fi­nance Min­is­ter’s as­sur­ance of a March pay­out.

More than 120 cubs and scouts from across the South Cen­tral Dis­trict took part in the first an­nu­al dis­trict camp over the week­end, as the scout move­ment con­tin­ues to in­stil in young peo­ple life skills, dis­ci­pline and team­work.