News and Information From The Bahamas

Bahamians talk of decades of close brushes with hurricanes in which the worst blows have landed elsewhere.

SHIFTING FORTUNES New figures show how sharply the fortunes of the big airlines and their low-cost rivals have diverged since the industry's peak year of 2000. The discount carriers flew 20 percent more seats in May than four years earlier, according to a report by the Transportation Department's Office of Inspector General, while the network airlines capacity was down 16 percent. Reflecting the relentless pressure that low-cost carriers have kept on their bigger competitors, average air fares ...

Secretary of State Colin L. Powell said on Thursday that the United States would not free millions of dollars in aid to the Haitian government until it curbs political violence.

The suicide attacks that reduced the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon to rubble have also shaken economies throughout the Caribbean.

A reconstruction of the days leading up to the crash suggests a disorganized and confused effort to set up the filming of a video for Aaliyah.

Aaliyah was only 22 when she died, but she had recorded some of the most innovative and influential pop songs of the last five years

American aviation officials searched today for clues in the plane crash that killed the pop singer Aaliyah and eight others. One focus is whether excess weight from production equipment hindered the takeoff

A sailboat packed with perhaps as many as 156 Haitians trying to get to the United States ran aground on the reefs surrounding Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas

After all the innuendo and speculation, Chris Webber, the 6-foot-10 All-Star forward for Sacramento, is close to agreeing in principle to a seven-year contract with the Kings for about $123 million

Under a new policy, every player must deposit 10 percent of his 2001-2 salary into an escrow account to be divided by the owners of the N.B.A.'s 29 teams