The Bahamian Icon Awards Organizing Committee, sponsors and partners are proud to announce the 2013 Nominees. Three days after the Commonwealth of the Bahamas celebrates its 40th anniversary, a group of outstanding Bahamians will receive grand honours at the first Bahamian Icon Awards. The artists, educators, journalists, humanitarians and entrepreneurs who form the first cohort of recipients will walk home [...]

By PJ Douglas Sands Over the last few weeks Jay-Z’s branding strategies and corporate moves have been interwoven into my daily life. Let’s call it my June with Jay-Z… shall we? First, I flew to New York, and my playlist was nothing but Alicia Keys and Hov aka Mr. Carter. Second, I watched the movie “The Great Gatsby” and was [...]

The Bahamian Icon Awards Organizing Committee, sponsors and partners are proud to announce the 2013 Nominees. Three days after the Commonwealth of the Bahamas celebrates its 40th anniversary, a group of outstanding Bahamians will receive grand honours at the first Bahamian Icon Awards. The artists, educators, journalists, humanitarians and entrepreneurs who form the first cohort of recipients will walk home [...]

By Noelle Nicolls, The Tribune Features Editor Three days after the Commonwealth of the Bahamas celebrates its 40th anniversary, a group of outstanding Bahamians will receive grand honours at the first Bahamian Icon Awards. The artists, educators, journalists, humanitarians and entrepreneurs who form the first cohort of recipients will walk home holding the bronze creation of artist Kishan Munroe. He [...]

Jay-Z sat with BlackTreeTV to discuss his role as executive producer of The Great Gatsby soundtrack, which dropped May 7th. He was inspired to dive into the project while working on “No Church In The Wild”, from his Watch The Throne LP with Kanye West – a conversation about the art of collaboration served as the initial seed of the [...]

The Bahamas has a population of nearly 300,000 people spread out over 700 islands and cays. Only 165,000 of those individuals have access to the Internet via smart phones or desktop computers. That’s a little over 50%. Social media worldwide has become the way that news spreads primarily. It’s the primary method entrepreneurs and businesses use to affordably market their [...]

I must confess that when I saw that Bahamas men’s magazine Brutha was celebrating its first anniversary in my Twitter timeline, I felt bad that I had never taken the time to sit on my iPad and read an issue cover to cover. Yes I have shared their editions on Facebook and Twitter with my TWAM and FB “friends” but [...]

Today, on the planet, a billion women – one of every three women on the planet – will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. That’s ONE BILLION mothers, daughters, sisters, partners, and friends violated. V-Day REFUSES to stand by as more than a billion women experience violence. The Bahamas will take part in V-Day, the global activist movement to [...]