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Promotion Board in 67% website visitor increase
The Nassau Paradise Island Promotion Board's (NPIPB) chief executive says there has been a 67 percent year-over-year jump in visitor traffic to its website as it works to convert this increase into actual visitors.
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Investor forum puts Grand Bahama in the spotlight
THE eyes of the world are on The Bahamas when it comes to investment and conservation, a conference in Grand Bahama heard this week.
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Illegal construction fight has been 'a rank failure'
The Bahamian Contractors Association's (BCA) president yesterday said builders are asking "why should we follow the law" following the country's "rank failure to manage the built environment".
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Bahamas trade deficit up $325m at five-year high
The Bahamas' trade deficit expanded by $314.6m or 10.7 percent during 2022 to hit a five-year high of $3.254bn, it was reveled yesterday, as inflation and higher global oil prices caused import costs to soar.
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Govt to remove shanty homes via building regulations act
ATTORNEY General Ryan Pinder said the Davis administration would demolish shanty town structures using the process outlined in the Buildings Regulation Act after the Supreme Court failed to deliver a favourable result to the government last week.
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Restaurant crowdfunder targeting $2.4m in sales
A restaurant entrepreneur yesterday said he is targeting $2.4m in total sales for 2023 as he mulls opening a third location on Carmichael Road.
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We are the champions
THE sixth edition of the Noble Preparatory Academy’s (NPA) spring classic basketball tournament saw four new champions crowned.
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'Improve service quality before rolling out 5G'
Bahamian businesses and consumers want their communications providers to first focus on improving the quality and reliability of existing services before exploring the introduction of 5G (fifth generation) technology.
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FNM Deputy hits out at amendment to security branch members' medical insurance policy
FREE National Movement Deputy Leader Shanendon Cartwright called government’s amendment to the medical insurance policy for security branch members “disgraceful and heartless”.
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EDITORIAL: Court ruling shows up process flaws
THE government has won the right to demolish a grand total of two shanty town homes. Two. Not two hundred. Not two thousand. Just two.
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SHANTY WIN - BUT FOR JUST TWO HOMES: OAG sought demolition for more than 260 shanty sites in Nassau and Abaco
CHIEF Justice Ian Winder ordered the demolition of shanty town structures belonging to just two people in The Bahamas yesterday, far fewer than the government had sought.
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NIB ordered: Pay ex-chief seven years of pensions
The National Insurance Board (NIB) has been ordered to pay a former director almost seven years’ worth of pension benefts after losing a legal battle over her due retirement entitlement.
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BTC makes its presence felt on Exuma at National Family Island Regatta
BTC officially kicked off its support of the National Family Island Regatta with a $10,000 sponsorship of Exuma’s 67th regatta held April 18-22 in George Town.
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Nassau/PI hotels see 35% ‘business on books’ jump
Nassau/Paradise Island hotels are eyeing a 35 percent year-over-year increase in “business on the books” for 2023, it was disclosed yesterday, with “loaded” airline seats through June also up on 2022.
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STATESIDE: Recent firings at major news outlets do little to change the media’s landscape
AMERICA’S highly politicised, highly polarised cable TV networks regained centre stage once again this week, as both Fox and CNN fired popular stalwarts in the wake of accumulated indiscretions. It wasn’t surprising. A bit disappointing, maybe. But not too surprising.
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Coastline awareness campaign launched by Tourism at GB school
A CAMPAIGN to keep coastlines clean has been reintroduced on Grand Bahama by the Ministry of Tourism, Investment and Aviation (MOTIA).
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Sailing officially declared as our national sport
IT was a big weekend for the island of Exuma. Not only did they attract one of the biggest crowds for the 65th Family Island Regatta, but they got to kick off the promotion of the torch run for the sixth edition of the Bahamas Games just before the official proclamation of sailing as the national sport of The Bahamas.
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Eric Wiberg – New Providence: 60 land accidents
WHETHER planes touched wingtips, men walked into propellers, bombers collided, planes were lost in microbursts, or had training gunnery mishaps, Nassau, Windsor and Oakes air fields and adjacent waters claimed many lives. More than half of all accidents in the colony – 80 of 150 – took place at or near the air fields and New Providence. This article deals with the 55 accidents that happened or ended up on land. In the three years from January 1943 131 aviators and a Bahamian family of three were killed by military aircraft in New Providence and its waters, with 83 rescued, and those fatalities recovered buried on Farrington Road. Pre-existing Oakes Field, used for training, saw nine crashes and most of the 25 unallocated, and Windsor Field, still in use, had 21.
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Carnival ‘spruce up’ for 50% passenger growth
A senior Carnival executive yesterday said the cruise giant plans to “spruce up” Princess Cay, adding that the Eleuthera-based private island needs “quite a bit of love”.
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Bahamian folklore and humour to be on display in new production
BAHAMIAN Georgia Storr Taylor is back with theatre/dance production ‘A Bahamian Tale’ - running from April 28-30 at the Regency Theatre.
