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The pandemic is still with us
I was going to visit an ill friend this past Saturday, but St Michael’s Hospitals’ 9th Floor was isolated with a COVID-19 outbreak. This also has happened on the first floor of La Verendrye Hospital (Riverside) in Fort Francis and also the West Wing of Rainy Crest was added to a large list of COVID-19 outbreaks throughout the nation.
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Survey of labour force due to begin next month
THE country’s labour force survey is set to begin next month, according to labour director Robert Farquharson.
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Ministry launches push for inclusion of disabled people in recruitment
PRESHELL Ramsey-Miller, a completely blind woman, says despite her disability she is eager to show the country her skills through the Ministry of Public Service’s disability inclusion efforts.
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‘Unions need to find a solution apart from industrial action’
FORMER Labour Director John Pinder says he believes union leaders should apply more skills to getting matters resolved outside of industrial action that features, among other tactics, large numbers of workers calling in sick.
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'Significant' oil spill in Exuma waters
30,000 gallons of oil have spilled in Exuma waters, Acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper said today.
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Realtors optimistic ‘hottest market in 40 years’ survives
Realtors are closely scrutinising whether “the hottest market The Bahamas has seen in 40-plus years” can survive rising global headwinds as they seek to maintain revenue increases of up to 79 percent.
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Tourism hopeful major strike damage avoided
The Bahamian tourism industry was yesterday hopeful that widespread, long-lasting damage from the Airport Authority strike may have been avoided even though most of the agency’s employees still failed to show for work.
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Union leader: ‘Hot spots’ will not become eruption
A trade union leader yesterday pledged that workplace “hot spots” will not erupt into full-blow strikes or industrial action, adding: “We are working around the clock to find a happy medium.”
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Warning issued as lobster season begins
MARINE Resources Acting Director Gregory Bethel says officials continue to be faced with some “unscrupulous” people who do not follow protocols when it comes to lobster season.
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Cooper concedes action to have negative impact
DEPUTY Prime Minister Chester Cooper says it is likely Monday’s industrial action by airport employees will have a “significant” impact on the country’s economy due to the number of tourists who missed their flights.
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DELAYED: Majority of striking airport staff fail to report for work despite ‘illegal’ court ruling
AN estimated 80 percent of airport workers in New Providence who engaged in a lightning strike on Monday did not return to work yesterday, despite a recent court ruling ordering them to report for duty.
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Tynia Gaither denied spot in 200m final at Worlds
Despite running a personal best, Tynia Gaither was denied her third consecutive spot in the final of the women’s 200 metres at the World Championships.
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Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation selects 16-member team for CAC Championships
FOLLOWING the successful return of the National Bodybuilding Championships over the weekend at Atlantis, the Bahamas Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation has selected a 16-member team to represent the Bahamas at the Central American and Caribbean Bodybuilding Championships.
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PETER YOUNG: Feasting on the fall of Boris and who replaces him
Some people consider political science is almost a misnomer. Politics is about power and influence and concerns the interaction between human beings while science is based on observation, measurement and interpretation of data in support of a theory or hypothesis.
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Fragile tourism fearing ‘long lasting’ airport strike damage
Bahamian tourism yesterday called for “a speedy resolution” to the strike action impacting the country’s major airports as it warned of potential “long-lasting” damage to a “fragile industry rebounding from a long period of nothing”.
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Police probe slammed: $101k must be returned to carpenter
The Royal Bahamas Police Force has been ordered to return $101,038 in cash seized from a part-time carpenter after the Court of Appeal criticised its non-existent investigation into whether this represented criminal proceeds.
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$6m start-up planning to be ‘full scale’ in 2 years
A newly-formed Bahamian manufacturer yesterday said it plans to grow its $6m investment and initial 16-strong workforce into a full-scale construction supply operation within two years.
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Minimum wage proposal sent to Cabinet
AFTER months of research, Robert Farquharson, deputy chairman of the National Tripartite Council, said the body has submitted its recommendations on the national minimum wage increase to the government.
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Cruise ship occupancies to hit 110% by end-2022
Nassau Cruise Port’s chief executive yesterday disclosed that average passenger occupancies will hit pre-COVID levels of 110 percent by year-end 2022 and beat its own recovery forecast.
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STRIKERS TOLD TO GET BACK TO WORK: Govt says it won’t be bullied - as judge rules action illegal
AFTER hundreds of airport employees refused to report to work yesterday, a court ruling declared the industrial action illegal - with workers ordered to go back to work.
