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Would you like to access news/blog content published by sources located in Bahamas?
Code example
If you'd like to make a REST call, then make a following POST request:
Endpoint /api/v1/article/getArticles
Request body
{
"sourceLocationUri": "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bahamas",
"resultType": "articles",
"apiKey": "API_KEY"
}
If you'd like instead to do a GET request then call:
/api/v1/article/getArticles?sourceLocationUri=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FThe_Bahamas&resultType=articles&apiKey=API_KEY
Example of JSON response
Below is an example JSON object that you would receive as the result of the request. You can retrieve also additional properties such as concepts, categories, source details, etc. by specifying additional parameters in the request as described on the documentation page.
{
"articles": {
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"title": "We at Bahamas Press wonders if Kevin Dion Rolle's mother Joan Marie Rolle has ever answered those fraud charges done in her name?",
"body": "Mother of an International criminal now behaving as an activist in Exuma and always criticizing Local Government vision for the islands?\n\nEXUMA| The mother of a Bahamian international fugitive from justice is creating problems for locals in EXUMA and we at BP warn residents to be careful associating themselves with Joan Marie Rolle. Here is the story.\n\nJoan Marie Rolle is the mother of disgraced Bahamian (now on the run) Kevin Dion Rolle who ran and operated an elaborate credit card fraud scam across the United States and into Europe and around the Caribbean.\n\nKevin Rolle, while living with his husband in Manhattan, operated from his young age of 27-years a $1.2 million credit card scam. He pleaded guilty to the crime in a New York Court. He was initially arrested in Puerto Rico back in 2021 when the Department of Justice exposed the criminal operation. Now to his mother.\n\nBefore the gang was caught in 2021 Kevin Rolle was stopped and questioned on June 4, 2020 in the Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport, he had a credit card in the name of his mother, Joan Marie Rolle, who had used Royal Bank of Canada account statements in support of the card.\n\nSome $481,517 in charges were run up on the card funds from his elaborate criminal activities. And we wonder if anyone questioned his mother in the Bahamas.\n\nWe at Bahamas Press wonders if Rolle's mother Joan Marie has ever answered those fraud charges done in her name? Her son we know makes the likes of a Rudy King look like a choir boy!\n\nJoan Marie is today walking up and down with defeated FNM candidate Debra Moxey-Rolle campaigning against development and progress on Exuma. She and her couple in numbers are always against the Local Government's plans to better the residents of Exuma. We wonder what these two FNMs have in common? Well ask Moxey-Rolle why she was relieved from Scotia Bank and perhaps this is where the answer comes.\n\nWe at BP will be watching these gangsters (BONNIE AND BONNIE) closely as we ask them both: Where is the international fraudster Kevin Rolle Jr these days and did any of them benefitted from his crimes around the world?\n\nExuma... Yinner watch these two for me! THANKS!",
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"url": "https://www.bahamaspress.com/kyle-wilsons-reported-overtime-was-nearly-3-4-times-his-listed-base-pay-according-to-explosive-payroll-images-now-raising-serious-questions/",
"title": "Kyle Wilson's reported overtime was nearly 3.4 times his listed base pay, according to explosive payroll images now raising serious questions",
"body": "By The Bahamas Herald Newsroom\n\nAugust 13, 2026\n\nNASSAU, THE BAHAMAS -- For most Bahamians, Christmas week means food, family and a little rest.\n\nBut a cropped work record attributed to Bahamas Electrical Workers Union president Kyle Wilson appears to tell a jaw-dropping story: 18 hours on Christmas Day, followed by three consecutive 24-hour entries.\n\nThat adds up to an astonishing 90 hours within a 96-hour period.\n\nAnd that is only part of the overtime bombshell.\n\nPayroll images obtained by The Bahamas Herald appear to list Wilson as receiving B$265,551.83 in overtime alonebetween May 2025 and April 2026. Because the Bahamian dollar is fixed at parity with the US dollar, that is nominally equivalent to US$265,551.83.\n\nA separate spreadsheet lists Wilson's base pay as B$78,388.20 and paid overtime as B$265,551.81 -- nearly 3.4 times his listed salary.\n\nPut the two figures together, and Wilson's base pay and reported overtime would total approximately B$343,940 before any other benefits, allowances or deductions.\n\nMore overtime than two colleagues\n\nAnother image, titled \"Total Paid Overtime to 3 Fuel & Performance Employees,\" lists three workers as receiving a combined B$601,295.16 in overtime during the 12 months.\n\nWilson's reported share -- more than B$265,000 -- was the largest amount on the list and represented approximately 44 percent of the combined overtime paid to the three employees.\n\nThe records contain a two-cent discrepancy: one gives Wilson's overtime as B$265,551.83, while the spreadsheet displays B$265,551.81.\n\nThe difference may be tiny, but the total is anything but.\n\nThe Christmas-week mystery\n\nThe most startling image is a cropped handwritten work sheet attributed to Wilson by the source who supplied it.\n\nIt appears to record:\n\n* 18 hours on December 25\n\n* 24 hours on December 26\n\n* 24 hours on December 27\n\n* 24 hours on December 28\n\nIf those figures represent actual hours worked, Wilson would have been on the clock for all but six hours across four consecutive days.\n\nThe sheet contains handwritten references to pumping fuel and bears what appears to be an employee signature. However, the employee's printed name is not visible in the cropped image, and the department-head approval line shown at the bottom appears blank.\n\nThe record does not explain whether the entries represent continuous active work, standby time, emergency call-outs, holiday premiums, overlapping payroll categories or some other method of calculating compensation.\n\nBahamians deserve answers\n\nThe eye-popping figures leave several questions demanding answers:\n\nWho authorized the reported Christmas-week hours? How could three consecutive 24-hour entries be recorded? Were the payments independently reviewed? And what controls govern overtime at the country's electricity provider?\n\nWilson's position as president of the Bahamas Electrical Workers Union is supported by public records. BPL identified him in that role in a December 2025 company release, while The Tribune reported that he secured a third term in February 2026.\n\nThe Central Bank of The Bahamas confirms that the Bahamian dollar is maintained at one-to-one parity with the US dollar.\n\nThe images have not yet been independently authenticated, and the cropped records alone do not establish wrongdoing by Wilson or any BPL official. Wilson and BPL should be given an opportunity to verify the records, explain the calculations and respond fully before publication.\n\nBut if the figures are confirmed, Bahamians will want to know how one employee accumulated more than a quarter-million dollars in overtime -- and how 90 hours were reportedly logged during a four-day Christmas stretch.",
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"body": "NASSAU| The Ministry of Social Services officially commissioned the Department of Social Services' newly renovated Horseshoe Drive Outreach Centre on Friday.\n\nPrime Minister Philip Davis said the commissioning reflects the kind of community-centred Bahamas his administration is continuing to build.\n\nThe facility will bring several key services under one roof, including the Department of Social Services, the Department of Gender and Family Affairs, the Temporary Shelter Unit and the Protection Against Violence Commission.\n\nMore than 4,000 people depend on services delivered through the Horseshoe Drive Outreach Centre.\n\nIts reopening brings multiple agencies under one roof - making assistance easier to access and services more connected.\n\nThis is what a modern public service should look like.",
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"body": "\"JUST do your best.\" It is probably one of the most common things we say to our children before they compete. We say it before the race, before the game, before the swimming final and sometimes even before an examination. Usually, it comes from a good place.\n\nWe want to remove some of the pressure. We want our children to understand that winning is not everything and that their value as a person does not depend upon where they finish. But there is another side to that conversation that we sometimes seem increasingly uncomfortable having: what happens when you actually do your best and your best is simply not good enough?\n\nSport has a rather unforgiving way of answering that question. The stopwatch does not care how hard you trained.\n\nThe measuring tape does not know how badly you wanted to win. The scoreboard does not give additional points because you sacrificed your summer vacation to practice. If the qualifying standard is 10.80 seconds and you run 11.10, you did not qualify. You may have run the best race of your life. You may have produced a personal best, and that achievement absolutely deserves recognition, but you still did not qualify.\n\nThat is not cruelty. That is competition, and learning how to deal with that reality may be one of the most valuable lessons sport can teach us.\n\nThis brings us inevitably to the sometimes controversial subject of participation medals. I do not believe participation medals are inherently good or bad. Context matters. For a six-year-old entering their first swimming meet or playing in their first football tournament, recognition for participation can reinforce enjoyment, belonging and the courage to try something new.\n\nAt that age, our greatest objective should be developing a positive relationship with physical activity and sport. We want children to come back next week. We want them to learn teamwork, movement, discipline and confidence. There is little benefit in treating an eight-year-old recreational competition like an Olympic final.\n\nAs children mature, however, participation, effort, improvement and achievement must gradually become distinguishable concepts. All four deserve recognition, but they do not represent the same accomplishment.\n\nEventually there are teams with limited roster positions, starting spots that must be earned, qualifying standards that must be met, scholarships for which several athletes are competing, and championship finals in which only one athlete finishes first.\n\nAt some point, sport teaches a lesson that adulthood will reinforce repeatedly: wanting something badly, working extremely hard for it and deserving respect for your effort do not guarantee that you will get it.\n\nThat lesson can hurt, but disappointment is not necessarily damaging. Properly handled, it can be extraordinarily useful. Sports psychology distinguishes between outcome goals and process goals. Winning the championship, making CARIFTA or earning the scholarship are outcome goals.\n\nExecuting your race properly, maintaining technique under fatigue, attending training consistently, improving strength and following your nutrition and recovery plan are process goals. Athletes need both.\n\nThe outcome tells us where we want to go; the process tells us what we must repeatedly do to have a chance of getting there.\n\nI sometimes think we make a mistake when we try to convince athletes that outcomes do not matter. Imagine an athlete who has spent an entire year attempting to qualify for CARIFTA and misses the standard.\n\nImmediately telling that athlete, \"It doesn't matter; you did your best,\" may make us feel better as adults, but it can unintentionally dismiss something that mattered tremendously to that young person.\n\nThere is nothing wrong with wanting to win. There is nothing unhealthy about being disappointed when you lose.\n\nCompetitive ambition is not a character flaw. Perhaps a better conversation is, \"You gave everything you had today, and you should be proud of that. We didn't achieve what we came here to achieve. When you're ready, let's figure out why.\"\n\nThat last question is where disappointment becomes useful. Failure becomes information.\n\nIf a sprinter needs to run 10.80 and consistently runs 11.10, simply telling him to work harder is not particularly helpful. Why is he three-tenths of a second away? Is acceleration the problem? Maximum velocity? Strength? Power? Sprint mechanics? Body composition?\n\nRecovery? Nutrition? Perhaps the athlete is already working extremely hard but is directing that effort toward the wrong things. A swimmer who repeatedly misses a qualifying time may have adequate cardiovascular conditioning but lose technical efficiency under fatigue.A basketball player may spend hours practicing but still lack the lower-body strength and explosive power required to compete at the next level. Sometimes an athlete does not need more effort. The athlete needs better information.\n\nThis is also where the phrase \"your best\" deserves closer examination. Your best is not necessarily a permanent number. The best performance you can produce today is not automatically the best performance you will ever be capable of producing. That is essentially why we train. Muscle fibers adapt and become stronger. Tendons become more capable of tolerating load. The nervous system becomes more efficient at recruiting muscle and producing force. Aerobic capacity can improve.\n\nTechnique becomes more economical. Nutrition and recovery can improve. Experience changes decision-making and confidence. With appropriate training, today's ceiling can eventually become tomorrow's baseline.\n\nPsychologist Carol Dweck's work on growth mindset is relevant here. The basic principle is that many abilities should not automatically be viewed as fixed; they can develop through appropriate effort, learning, strategy and persistence. Unfortunately, the concept is sometimes simplified into \"just keep trying.\" Trying matters, but effort alone is not enough.\n\nAn athlete can train extremely hard using a poorly designed program and become exceptionally good at doing the wrong things. Growth requires effort combined with feedback, appropriate coaching, good strategy and the willingness to change when something is not working.\n\nParents and coaches have an enormous influence on how athletes learn these lessons.\n\nThere are two extremes that concern me. At one end is the adult for whom nothing is ever enough. Second place is treated like failure. A personal best is ignored because somebody else ran faster. The drive home becomes an interrogation about everything the child did wrong. Eventually the athlete may begin associating competition not with enjoyment or personal ambition, but with the fear of disappointing the adults around them. That is not how we create healthy high performers.\n\nAt the other extreme is the adult who refuses to allow the athlete to experience disappointment at all. Every defeat requires an excuse. The referee cheated us. The coach has favourites. The conditions were unfair. The other athlete had an advantage.\n\nSometimes those things may genuinely be true, and poor officiating, bias and unfair circumstances certainly exist in sport. But if every disappointing result is immediately explained away, we can rob young athletes of the opportunity to ask one of the most useful questions in performance: what could I have done better?\n\nParents do not have to rescue children from every uncomfortable emotion. Losing hurts.\n\nBeing cut from a team hurts. Missing a qualifying standard by one hundredth of a second hurts. Watching someone you have beaten before stand on the podium while you do not hurts. Those feelings are real, but learning to process them is part of development.\n\nSometimes the best thing a parent can say immediately after a difficult competition is very little. Give the athlete time. Acknowledge the disappointment. Let the emotion settle. The analysis can come later.\n\nCoaches should similarly learn to praise athletes specifically rather than indiscriminately.\n\n\"Good job\" certainly has its place, but telling an athlete, \"Your start was significantly better today,\" \"You maintained your technique when you became tired,\" or \"I liked the way you stayed composed after falling behind\" identifies the behaviour that should be repeated. We should praise genuine effort, but we should also praise preparation, consistency, discipline, good decision-making, technical improvement and resilience. Those are qualities the athlete can control.\n\nThere is another uncomfortable truth that sport eventually teaches us: sometimes you can prepare properly, perform exceptionally well and still lose because someone else was better that day.\n\nModern motivational culture occasionally sells the idea that hard work guarantees success. It does not. Genetics matter. Talent matters. Coaching, resources, opportunity, training history, health and sometimes simple luck all matter.\n\nTwo athletes can work extraordinarily hard and still finish first and second. Learning to shake the winner's hand, respect their performance and then return to work without allowing the loss to diminish your own self-worth is an important form of maturity.\n\nThis is one of the reasons we emphasize objective assessment at Empire Sports Medicine & Performance. When an athlete tells me they want to become faster, stronger, jump higher or reach the next competitive level, simply prescribing more training is not enough. We need to understand what is limiting that athlete.\n\nStrength, power, flexibility, range ofmotion, body composition, movement quality, previous injury, recovery and sport-specific performance can all be evaluated. Once the limiting factors are identified, training can become purposeful rather than simply harder. Sometimes discovering that your current best is not good enough is not the end of the conversation. It is the beginning of a better plan.\n\nSo where does this leave the participation medal? There is nothing wrong with recognising participation, particularly among young children.\n\nWe should celebrate the courage to enter the race before becoming obsessed with who crosses the line first. But achievement should also retain meaning.\n\nA championship medal should represent championship achievement. A personal best can recognise improvement.\n\nCoaches can recognise sportsmanship, leadership, consistency and exceptional effort. We do not have to choose between encouraging children and maintaining standards. We are capable of doing both.\n\nPerhaps the mistake is believing that every child must leave every competition feeling like a winner. Sometimes they should leave disappointed. 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