What is Eyewitness News?
Eyewitness News is a Bahamian news operation publishing at ewnews.com. Its home page, retrieved on 18 September 2026, carried news dated 16 September 2026 across politics, finance, crime and utilities, and offered live streaming, video newscasts and an email newsletter. The site describes itself as "The Bahamas #1 trusted source for local news", which is the outlet’s own characterisation.[1]
Its About page carries the line "They’re ALWAYS A HEADLINE AHEAD!" and profiles newsroom staff including a news director and reporters; it gives no launch date and no parent company, and it names individuals whose current posts could not be confirmed, so it is used here for the outlet’s self-description rather than for its present staffing.[2]
Ownership could not be established. The outlet’s own contact page gives an address on University Drive, Thompson Boulevard, Nassau, a telephone number and two email addresses, and carries a company line reading "Verizon Media Group" that does not correspond to any Bahamian media company that could be traced.[3] No corporate filing, share register or ownership report for Eyewitness News could be retrieved, so no ownership statement is made here.
What does Eyewitness News cover?
The site carries a standing sports category. Retrieved on 18 September 2026, it held reports on Team Bahamas at the 2025 CARIFTA Games in track and field and aquatics, including the team’s finish and the start of the championships; on the Bahamian team’s final practice before the 2025 CARIFTA swimming championships; on the 2025 Bahamas Bowl, the college American football game played in Nassau, which it reported the University at Buffalo winning by 26 points to 7; and on a women’s sport event hosted by the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture around International Women’s Day. Items on that category page carry no visible publication dates.[5]
The pattern there is national-team and national-event coverage rather than a domestic league results service: CARIFTA, the regional age-group championship at which Bahamian juniors compete, the annual bowl game staged in Nassau, and the sports ministry’s own calendar.[5]
The outlet also reports the business of sports broadcasting. Its report on the Bahamas Telecommunications Company sponsoring the Broadcasting Corporation of The Bahamas’ free-to-air coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, held in 2021, sets out the arrangement and quotes both the telecommunications company’s chief executive and the broadcasting corporation’s general manager; that report carries no retrievable publication date.[6]
How large is Eyewitness News's audience?
No measured audience figure for Eyewitness News could be retrieved: no ratings return for its video newscasts, no web traffic measurement for ewnews.com and no subscriber count. The outlet’s own home page, About page and contact page state none of these.[1][2][3] No Bahamian audience-measurement body publishing such figures could be identified. That is a limitation in the available evidence.
The one distribution fact that is documented is historical and comes from the outlet itself: its first-anniversary report states that the newscast was then available on "Cable channel 224 or BTC’s Flow TV, channel 112".[4] That describes carriage in 2019 and was not confirmed for 2026, so it is given with its date rather than in the present tense.
The outlet’s own descriptions of its standing — the claim to be the country’s number one trusted source for local news, and the management ambition recorded in the anniversary report to produce something that would "trump the competition" — are the outlet’s own and are reported as such.[1][4]
Since when has Eyewitness News existed?
The outlet’s own first-anniversary report states that Eyewitness News debuted on 14 May 2018, and describes the preparation before launch: reporters, editors and producers covering assignments, practising stand-ups, writing reports and producing a nightly newscast.[4] That is the date of the newscast, on the outlet’s own account, and no independent corroboration of it could be retrieved.
No date of incorporation could be retrieved, and no date could be established for the ewnews.com website separately from the newscast. Founding, first broadcast and the start of online publication are distinct events and only the second of them is dated by any source retrieved here.[4][3]
The sports section has no retrievable start date either. Its datable content is by event: the 2025 CARIFTA championships and the 2025 Bahamas Bowl are the most recent editions named on the category page, and the site’s general news was current to 16 September 2026 when it was retrieved.[5][1]
Why does Eyewitness News matter in The Bahamas' sport?
Eyewitness News is one of a small number of Bahamian outlets producing video news, and its sports coverage is built around the fixtures that define the Bahamian international calendar: the CARIFTA track and field and aquatics championships, and the college American football bowl game staged annually in Nassau.[5] Its CARIFTA reporting followed the squad from final practice through to the finish of the championships.
It has also reported the mechanics of sports broadcasting in the country, including the sponsorship arrangement under which the state broadcaster carried the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games free to air and the quotes from both parties to it.[6] That reporting is one of the few retrievable accounts of how a major sporting event reached Bahamian viewers.
Its sports items carry no visible dates, its most recent named editions are from 2025, and its ownership could not be established.[5][3] What it adds to the picture of sport in The Bahamas is national-event video coverage from a newsroom that has been publishing since 2018 on its own account.[4]
References
- Eye Witness News — home page, retrieved 18 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-18.
- Eye Witness News — About Us. Accessed 2026-09-18.
- Eye Witness News — Contact Us. Accessed 2026-09-18.
- Eye Witness News, “Eyewitness News celebrates one year”. Accessed 2026-09-18.
- Eye Witness News — Sports section, retrieved 18 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-18.
- Eye Witness News, “BTC teams up with the Broadcasting Corporation to bring the Tokyo Olympic Games free to all viewers across The Bahamas”. Accessed 2026-09-18.