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WELCOME BACK: First foreign flights arrive but numbers of passengers light

TOURISTS and returning residents descended on Lynden Pindling International Airport as commercial international travel resumed yesterday.

Brave warns - we’re taking risks

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leader Philip “Brave” Davis slammed the Minnis administration’s COVID-19 plans yesterday, saying the government is not doing enough to protect residents as the borders reopen.

New baseball stadium ‘will be very live with events’

The proposed plan for the development of the new Andre Rodgers National Baseball Complex will feature a stadium that includes opportunities for local baseball to take advantage of the stadium’s amenities.

Chisholm, Fox named to pool of up to 60 players

MAJOR League Baseball is set to make its return and several Bahamian prospects have joined their team’s player pool in training camp for the shortened 2020 season.

Biodiesel firm is 'coiled spring ready to explode'

A Bahamian biofuel producer yesterday described itself as “a coiled spring ready to explode” with ramped-up sales after four painstaking years of perfecting its product. Scott Metcalf, Bahamas Sustainable Fuels’ general manager, told Tribune Busines

Gyms, fitness centres hail 'smooth' reopening

Gyms and fitness centres yesterday hailed a “smooth” reopening after being closed for more than three months as a result of the COVID-19 emergency measures. Sofia Whitehead, owner of Club One Fitness, told Tribune Business: “We had a really great mo

Tourism industry off to a slow reopening

The Bahamian tourism industry’s post-COVID re-opening made a slow start yesterday with New Providence hotels reporting minimal guest arrivals.Muna Issa, Breezes Bahamas managing director, told Tribune Business via e-mail: “We are open and ready for b

CASUALTIES OF COVID CRISIS: Baha Mar begins mass layoffs just as flights resume

Bahamians were yesterday warned to brace for "more significant casualties" in the tourism industry as Baha Mar started terminating hundreds of workers.

Teaching may have to adapt

EDUCATION officials are considering class rotations and limiting face-to-face instruction between teachers and students when the new school year begins, Minister of Education Jeff Lloyd said yesterday.

EDITORIAL: Warning signs for the economy

HOW seriously is our economy being hurt by COVID-19? Our lead story today is a telling sign.

Straw vendors - keep market closed

STRAW vendors are calling for the government to push back the Straw Market’s re-opening date until the cruise ship industry resumes in September.

125 police officers expected to retire, with 270 to be recruited

THIRTY-FIVE senior police officers and 90 contracted officers are expected to retire from the Royal Bahamas Police Force this year.

Moody’s warn COVID impact will remain beyond 2024

Bahamian economic output will not recover to pre-COVID-19 levels "until after 2024", Moody's has warned, in a stark illustration of the economic devastation unleashed by the pandemic.

ACTIVTRADES: The faster the better - some things never change

In the distant year of 490BC a Greek messenger raced from Marathon, the site where a Greek army had just fought and beaten the invading Persians, to Athens, more than 25 miles away, to deliver the good news. Many centuries later, in 1896, this feat w

DIANE PHILLIPS: It’s not COVID that’s the killer, it’s poverty

It’s no wonder we can’t wrap our heads around the COVID crisis. First of all, it came out of nowhere.

DOUBLE DIP: COVID fallout sees two-point downgrade

The “extraordinary beating” inflicted upon the tourism industry by COVID-19 was critical in Moody’s decision yesterday to strip The Bahamas of its ‘investment grade’ credit rating, the deputy prime minister says.

Time to end provisions

The Prime Minister announced on 19th March, 2020, that he was invoking the provisions of Article 29 of the Constitution to decree a proclamation of emergency under which a number of emergency regulations and orders have been legislated to address the crisis arising from the Corona Covid-19 virus. The emergency regulations and orders put in place a number of measures such as a twenty-four curfew, a complete lockdown on weekends as well as limits on the number of persons who can gather in one place and imposed a 6ft physical distancing requirement on gatherings.

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