What is The Tribune?
The Tribune is a newspaper published in Nassau. Its own About page states that it appears Monday through Saturday and that it keeps offices in Nassau and in Freeport, Grand Bahama, and it sets out the paper’s sections as local news, crime and court, politics, sports, business, lifestyle, editorial and opinion, and weather.[1]
The same page gives the masthead motto as "NULLIUS ADDICTUS JURARE IN VERBA MAGISTRI", which the paper translates as "Being Bound to Swear to The Dogmas of No Master".[1] On editorial control it names Leon E. H. Dupuch as publisher and editor in 1903, Sir Etienne Dupuch in that role from 1919 to 1972, and Eileen Dupuch Carron as publisher and editor from 1972, and states that she continues in the role. That last statement is the paper’s own, on a page that carries no date of last revision.[1]
No corporate proprietor is named on either the About page or the contact page. The contact page gives departmental addresses on the tribunemedia.net domain and lists a managing editor, a news editor, a business editor, an online editor and a features editor, alongside a sports contact.[2] No ownership record for the title could be retrieved, so no ownership statement is made here.
What does The Tribune cover?
The paper runs a standing Local Sports category. Retrieved on 18 September 2026, it carried items dated 9 to 11 September 2026 on amateur boxing, on the New Providence Amateur Baseball League, on junior surfing, on collegiate golf, on judo, on a meeting between the sports minister and sports-tourism stakeholders in the United States, and in a recurring sports-medicine column.[3]
The reporting is signed. A report published on 4 September 2026 on the return of a Bahamian team from the Central American and Caribbean bodybuilding and fitness championships in Guatemala carries the byline of Brent Stubbs with the job title chief sports editor, and reports the federation’s own account of an eight-medal return together with the postponement of the 2026 national championships over outstanding ministry funding.[4] A report published on 27 July 2026 under the same byline set out the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations’ 18-member delegation to the World Under-20 Championships in Eugene, Oregon, held from 5 to 9 August 2026, naming the head coach and the association president and listing the support staff.[5]
Those two pieces mark the range of the desk: federation-level athletics and team selection at one end, and club and school competition at the other, with the administration of sport — funding, ministry decisions, federation finances — treated as sports news rather than as political news.[4][5]
How large is The Tribune's audience?
No audited circulation figure for The Tribune could be retrieved, and no measured audience figure for its website could be retrieved. The paper’s About page states its publication days and its sections but gives no print run and no subscriber number, and the contact page gives no audience data.[1][2]
No Bahamian body auditing newspaper circulation could be identified, which is why the gap is a gap in the evidence rather than a figure this page has declined to print.
What can be counted instead is output. The Local Sports category carried ten items across three consecutive days when it was retrieved on 18 September 2026, and the two sports reports examined in full both carry a named staff byline with a sports job title.[3][4] That is a measure of a staffed desk, not of readership, and it is offered as no more than that.
Since when has The Tribune existed?
The paper’s About page traces the title to 1903, the year it gives for Leon E. H. Dupuch as publisher and editor.[1] That is the paper’s own account of its origin. A Library of Congress bibliographic record for the title was sought as an independent check and could not be retrieved, so 1903 is reported here as the publisher’s date and not as an independently corroborated one.
The About page separates the succession of editors from the origin of the title: Sir Etienne Dupuch from 1919 to 1972, then Eileen Dupuch Carron from 1972.[1] No date of incorporation, no date of a change of proprietor and no date of any renaming could be retrieved, and those are distinct from the 1903 date in any case.
For the sports desk, no starting date could be retrieved. Its operation is datable from the material itself: signed reports under a chief sports editor byline published on 27 July 2026 and 4 September 2026, and a Local Sports category carrying items on 9, 10 and 11 September 2026.[5][4][3]
Why does The Tribune matter in The Bahamas' sport?
The Tribune runs a staffed sports desk in Nassau, and both Nassau dailies publish domestic competition results as a continuing series. Its Local Sports category on 18 September 2026 covered amateur boxing, amateur baseball, junior surfing, collegiate golf and judo in a single three-day window.[3]
It also reports the governance of sport in detail. The 4 September 2026 report gave the federation president’s account of a national championship postponed for want of ministry funds, reporting the funds as outstanding and the championship as re-targeted for 21 November, rather than characterising the dispute.[4] The 27 July 2026 report listed a national team’s full delegation, its coaching staff and its safeguarding officers before a world championship.[5] Both reports concern the administration of sport in The Bahamas.
Continuity is the third reason. The About page lists three publisher-editors from 1903 onwards — Leon E. H. Dupuch (1903 to 1914), Sir Etienne Dupuch (1919 to 1972) and Eileen Dupuch Carron (from 1972) — leaving the years 1914 to 1919 unattributed on that page, and puts more than a century of dated issues behind the current sports desk.[1]
References
- The Tribune — About Us. Accessed 2026-09-18.
- The Tribune — Contact Us. Accessed 2026-09-18.
- The Tribune — Local Sports section, retrieved 18 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-18.
- Brent Stubbs, “Making history: Team Bahamas returns home with eight medals”, The Tribune, 4 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-18.
- Brent Stubbs, “BAAA taking diverse 18-member team to the World Under-20 Championships”, The Tribune, 27 July 2026. Accessed 2026-09-18.