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Currency swap key to unleash recovery
Dr Johnathan Rodgers, the well-known eye doctor, details a multi-tier COVID-19 revival strategy to give The Bahamas the foreign currency financing it needs without taking on too much debt.
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ALICIA WALLACE: When it’s all over, let’s make sure we do things better
Over the past few days I have been having conversations with people about the COVID crisis, the responses of different governments and the reactions of the public. I have been interested in the thoughts of artists, activists, educators, students and members of the press. There is one question I keep asking – what is your hope for when things change? Some answers are personal and some are broader and more inclusive.
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'Desperation' sparks $20m loan rethink
Growing “desperation” among his small business clients has prompted many of them into a rethink when it comes to applying for government assistance, a consultant has revealed. Mark A Turnquest, of Mark A Turnquest Consulting, told Tribune Business t
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Lumberjacks’ Nathan Bain has season to remember
GRAND Bahamian Nathan Bain had a season to remember as his collegiate career came to an end with the Stephen F Austin Lumberjacks men’s basketball team just before the cancellation of the prestigious March Madness men’s basketball tournament.
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Long lines as people claim food vouchers
SCORES of laid off hotel workers flocked to their union’s headquarters yesterday, queuing in long, jumbled lines to receive food vouchers amid the COVID-19 pandemic.When The Tribune arrived at the Bahamas Hotel Catering and Allied Workers Union’s hea
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Gifts for Baha Mar employees
BAHA Mar will this week gift employees with care packages containing non-perishable goods. This month marks the mega resort’s third anniversary in operation which Baha Mar is using as an occasion to thank staff for their hard work and dedication. T
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Bahamian Andy Thompson executive producer behind ESPN documentary
NOTED Bahamian producer, director and documentarian Andy Thompson is the brainchild behind the latest film that has been the most discussed topic in the world of sports.
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'Tourism industry won't recover until June 2021'
JAMAICA’s former tourism minister projects the tourism industry won’t recover from the COVID-19 crisis until June 2021 and will see 80 percent recovery only by winter of next year.
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Shopping restrictions eased for certain key businesses
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has relaxed restrictions for certain businesses, revealing several entities will be allowed to reopen in the capital under certain guidelines. Meanwhile, the 24-hour curfew resumes today with another lockdown schedule
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My three mistakes
From the time that nation/states emerged the chiefs and leaders have experimented and tinkered with the economic order, often to the detriment of the lower and middle classes. Those at the top of the fabled totem, how apt a reference.....’tote them’ are oftentimes, like right here in The Bahamas, are often allied with the politicians and their suitcase people.......some call them bag men/women; lobbyists and facilitators.
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COVID-19 gives chance to improve food security
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the term ‘food security’ is sending consumers into panic mode, resulting in long lines and empty shelves at local grocery stores. While the government has repeatedly reassured that there is no shortage of food or
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Farmer's Crown Land plea for $310,000 outlay to work
A Bahamian chicken farmer says his request for a Crown Land lease requires an urgent government response if his $310,000 investment is to work. Glen Rolle, chief executive of Bouggie Birds, told Tribune Business: “We have all of the financing in pla
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Bank chief loses 'fit and proper' battles
A Bahamian bank’s chairman has failed to overturn the Central Bank’s demand that he sell his majority ownership because he is “not a fit and proper person” to be in charge. Carlos Molina told Tribune Business his battle with the regulator had result
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DIANE PHILLIPS: A sporting icon from an age of real stars
Amid the obsession with lives in peril, saved or lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the passing of a legend who once stood for the finest in extreme sports, performance and glamour in Nassau nearly went unnoticed.
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Food security needs additional 'real steps'
The Bahamas Light Industries Development Council (BLIDC) says other “real steps that need to be taken” besides creating a Food Security Task Force to help spur local production. Karla Wells-Lisgaris, the Council’s vice-president, responding to the p
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Making face masks to help workers
WITH the government now ordering people to wear face masks when they leave their residence to help stop the spread of COVID-19, members of the Inner Wheel Club of East Nassau have started to make them. “When it became clear that wearing a mask, even
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‘Family Islands lockdown could last four more weeks’
DEPUTY Chief Medical Officer Dr Delon Brennen said it could take another four weeks before the lockdown can end on Family Islands that have not yet recorded a confirmed case of COVID-19.
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Bahamas holding off debt cost pressures
The Bahamas was the only Caribbean nation in early April to escape pressure on its bond yields amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report revealed yesterday. The IDB, in its 2020 first quarter “bulletin” on the regio
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Nurses in dispute on crisis working
THE Public Hospitals Authority has changed the working shift of some nurses amid the COVID-19 crisis, it confirmed yesterday.
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Four charged with various drug offences
TWO teenagers and two men were charged with drug possession in separate incidents in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Rashaun Mackey, 19, and a 17-year-old male appeared before Magistrate Sandradee Gardiner charged with possession of Indian Hemp wi
