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If you'd like to hit a few tennis balls with John Travolta, you'd better be ready to get up really, really early in the morning.

His column 'Front Porch' is published every Tuesday in the Nassau Guardian. He can be reached at frontporchguardian@gmail.com. Perry Christie's evolution towards and final transformation into the Lynden Pindling of the more scandal-ridden days of the PLP was completed last week.

The Government has spent $16 million in unemployment benefits to displaced Bahamian workers over the past six months, Minister of National Security, the Hon O A T 'Tommy' Turnquest confirmed.

AN EXUBERANT crowd cheered on newly elected PLP deputy leader Philip "Brave" Davis as he stepped up to the convention stage last night, buoyant in his victory and filled with enthusiasm for his new post.

John Travolta 's peace of mind is now in the hands of a dozen Bahamians. The jury is expected to begin deliberations today in the case of two locals who allegedly targeted Travolta and Kelly Preston with a $25 million extortion scheme following the death of son Jett .

Toronto, Canada... As the great white north braces for its famous snowy winters, the newest gospel rapper on the scene prepares to bring some Bahamian heat when he debuts his first album in Toronto this weekend.

His column 'Front Porch' is published every Tuesday in the Nassau Guardian. He can be reached at frontporchguardian@gmail.com. Those Bahamians prone towards romanticizing America's republican form of government, while failing to appreciate more fully the time-tested rationale, genius, sophistication and flexibility of our own democratic heritage, ...

"If there is no struggle there is no progress. There are those who profess to favour freedom and yet deprecate agitation.

His column 'Front Porch' is published every Tuesday in the Nassau Guardian. He can be reached at frontporchguardian@gmail.com. After Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court many Americans gushed: "It could only happen in America." America is rightly proud that its first African-American President elevated the ...

These matters relate to the delivery of healthcare to all Bahamians and are separate and apart from the personal liability issue surrounding the death itself.

University of Miami researcher Kathleen Sullivan-Sealey helps create the first sustainable tourist project in the Bahamas IMAGE: This is an aerial view of the Baker's Bay Golf and Ocean Club, located in the Northeastern Bahamas.

Paramedic Tarino Lightbourn and former Bahamian senator Pleasant Bridgewater are currently on trial in Nassau, accused of attempting to secure a multi-million payment from Travolta for the return of a form the star signed just before his son Jett was pronounced dead in January.

A prominent Bahamian lawyer has been indicted on U.S. federal corruption charges in a case that allegedly involves a South Florida politician and nearly $1 million in laundered money.

John Travolta frantically tried to save his son by performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the actor told a Bahamian court on Wednesday in the trial of two people accused of attempting to extort $25 million from him.

In what will no doubt go down as the second most difficult day of his year, John Travolta took the stand this morning in the trial of two Bahamians allegedly involved in a $25 million extortion plot against his family.

Authorities in Butner, N.C., arrested a man suspected of trying to rob the BB&T bank in Mocksville Thursday afternoon.

His column 'Front Porch' is published every Tuesday in the Nassau Guardian. He can be reached at frontporchguardian@gmail.com. We are not solely engaged in a debate on marital rape.

Bahamas Agricultural and Industrial Corporation has plans for more local produce to appear on menus of hotels, restaurants and other tourism-related businesses, Deputy General Manager Don Major said.

Misick said he was being punished for his success in developing the TCI as the Monte Carlo of the Caribbean: "The British used allegations of corruption to stop our move towards independence," he asserted, adding that: "We never violated the laws or the constitution." In a variation on this theme, he also told the London Times that the recent ...

It's a scene that scientists say is all too common: A commercial fishing boat pulls in a net full of shrimp or tuna and finds a loggerhead sea turtle mixed in with the catch.