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Hotels ‘close to living with’ rental pool minimum tax
The Bahamian hotel industry yesterday asserted it is “coming close to a position we can live with” by ensuring that the Government’s ‘minimum tax’ on rental pool units is not too “onerous”.
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Give Bahamians ‘direct’ carbon manager equity
Opposition MPs yesterday urged that “ordinary Bahamians” be given an opportunity to directly own shares in the company being created to manage this nation’s multi-million dollar carbon credits and their trading.
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Pacers agree to sign Deandre Ayton to $133m deal
Deandre Ayton remains the biggest restricted free agent on the market and is just hours away from finding out whether he will have a new NBA home alongside “Buddy” Hield in Indiana or return to the Phoenix Suns.
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‘We cannot give it all away’: Hotels’ rising energy fears
Bahamian hotels were yesterday growing increasingly fearful that rising electricity costs will wipe out their profitability “breathing space”, with one saying: “We can ill-afford to give it all away.”
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Minimum wage: Hotels ‘intervene’ over gratuity
The Bahamian hotel industry has “intervened” over the upcoming minimum wage increase to propose that employees earning the bulk of their income from gratuities receive less than the full rise, it was revealed yesterday.
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PMH ‘BURSTING AT THE SEAMS’: Flood of patients has hospital in crisis mode struggling to manage
A MAJOR jump in hospital admissions has left the Princess Margaret Hospital “bursting from the seams”, forcing health officials to have some patients re-located to Doctors Hospital West to receive medical care.
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IAN FERGUSON: Employers must wake up to staff discontent
The past two-and-a-half years have possibly seen the most dramatic shift in the labour market, and work environment, in Bahamian history. Unemployment rates during the pandemic hit unprecedented levels and now, two years later, as companies recover in leaps and bounds, frictional joblessness and mass resignation has become our new reality.
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Police seek help in finding suspects
POLICE are requesting assistance from members of the public in regard to two crime incidents.
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Anti immigration is the theme – the upsurge of the rightwing
In the past decade massive movements of displaced as well as opportunist immigration has happened all over the globe.
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Suspect accused of stealing $80 of women’s underwear given $1,000 bail
A MAN was granted $1,000 bail yesterday for allegedly stealing $80 worth of ladies underwear from a store on Robinson Road.
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Pro basketball players Munnings, Davis headed to new clubs in France
A PAIR of national team members from the recent FIBA World Cup ‘23 Americas Qualifiers will head to new locations when they resume their pro careers in Europe.
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Politicians face Pastors in ‘Peace On Da Streets’ showdown
WHILE Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture Mario Bowleg feels the Politicians have assembled a team that they feel can win, Apostle Carlos Reid, the organiser, is urging everybody to come out and see how the Pastors counteract with their team when they meet in the Peace On Da Streets showdown.
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STATESIDE: Roll up, roll up for the great game of ‘pick your nominee’
“I’M just disgusted by what’s happening in the US,” the Bahamian lady said over the telephone. WhatsApp, of course. “What a colossal mess! You know, I heard the other day someone was talking, and they said that the Democrats actually figured out how to entice the conservatives on the Supreme Court to vote on Roe v Wade right now, because it’s the only thing that can prevent a Republican takeover of Congress in November.”
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Cheque volumes fall 7.5% annually over past decade
The Central Bank’s governor yesterday said cheques cleared via the Bahamian banking system have decreased by 7.5 percent annually over the past decade with businesses, especially, dropping an instrument “very susceptible to fraud”.
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Give up pension ‘bargain’ to save future generations
Bahamians must give up the “bargain” of their generous National Insurance Board (NIB) pension to prevent “future generations” facing an unsustainable financial burden, it was revealed yesterday, as “the day of reckoning” arrived.
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$20m housing financing ‘shouldn’t be secret deal’
The Opposition’s finance spokesman was yesterday less than impressed with the Government’s efforts at “transparency” over its flagship $20m housing initiative, asserting: “This should not be a secret deal.”
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Minnis accuses Munroe of prejudicing police probe
FORMER Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has accused National Security Minister Wayne Munroe of prejudicing investigations into an incident involving a Cabinet minister and a Royal Bahamas Police officer.
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Team Bahamas falls to Cuba 76-44 in opener
The Bahamas senior women’s national basketball team opened the 2022 Caribbean Women’s Championship with a lopsided loss to the host country on the first night of competition.
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Jonquel reaches 2,500-point career milestone
JONQUEL Jones continued her momentum from the WNBA All-Star break and posted her seventh double double of the season.
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Six athletes earn college scholarships
SIX Grand Bahama athletes have received track and field scholarships to attend colleges and universities in the United States.