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IMF urges Bahamas to stick to 50 percent debt ceiling
The International Monetary Fund has urged The Bahamas to keep to the 50 percent debt ceiling passed in 2018.
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Warning as container costs to double
Businesses should brace for a 100 percent increase in container costs for the summer due to the Russia and Ukraine war.
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Victims named as police probe Exuma deaths
POLICE Commissioner Paul Rolle said investigators looking into the deaths of three Americans at Sandals Emerald Bay in Exuma are probing what the victims may have eaten as well as whether any “contaminants” were present in the separate rooms where they were found.
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Family tree chopped down by the rules
This will come as a shock to all members of Ancestry DNA, who are involved in building family trees.
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Daughter of pastor in court on drug charges
THE daughter of a well-known pastor was put on a year’s probation for drug related charges yesterday.
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‘Early start’ to rainy season
SPORADIC severe weather over the weekend signaled what a forecaster has called “an early start to the rainy season”.
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Tourism arrivals rise by a sixth
The Central Bank of The Bahamas said tourist arrivals grew by 17 percent in 2021, but are still a way off 2019 numbers.
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Eleuthera businesses: Disney jobs welcome but worry over wages
The Disney Lighthouse project would put Bahamians back in “slavery” if they keep wages low, a South Eleuthera business owner has claimed.
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Sand Dollar circulation trebles
The Bahamas’s digital currency, the Sand Dollar, nearly trebled in circulation in 2020.
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Majority of new virus cases were transmitted locally
A LOCAL infectious disease expert said 65 percent of the new COVID-19 cases in the last epidemiological week were transmitted locally.
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What killed three tourists in Exuma?
AN investigation is ongoing into the deaths of three American tourists who were found dead at the luxury Sandals Emerald Bay Resort in Exuma on Friday after they were reportedly stricken by an unknown illness.
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WNBA: Jones and Sun lose opener
GRAND Bahamian native Jonquel Jones and her Connecticut Sun suffered a heart-breaking loss to the New York Liberty as they opened their Women’s National Basketball Association 2022 season on Saturday.
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Three American visitors found dead at Sandals, Exuma – No foul play suspected
THREE foreign nationals were found dead at the Sandals Emerald Bay Resort in Exuma on Friday, confirmed Health Minister Dr Michael Darville.
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Make the family great again
THE singing career of Grammy Award Winner Marvin Gaye, ended in tragedy on April 1st, 1983. He was shot to death by his own father. He and his father never got on. Gaye’s close friend David Ritz, wrote Gaye’s biography a year later, he called it “Divided Soul”.
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EDITORIAL: Resisting temptation to break the law
THERE was quite a startling admission from Environment Minister Vaughn Miller yesterday.
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‘Explain the rules’ over work release programme
OPPOSITION Leader Michael Pintard said government should publicly explain what determines who is allowed to participate in the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services’ work release programme.
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Fighting for our children
RISE Bahamas yesterday urged lawmakers to establish legislation that would impose strict penalties on family members and caretakers who refuse to report sex crimes committed against children in their care.
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Don’t let $1bn arrears be tax reform let-off
The Government’s self-proclaimed $1bn in tax arrears must not become an excuse for failing to “bite the bullet” on reform, a private sector tax chief said yesterday, describing such thinking as “a fool’s errand”.
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Abuse not an excuse to alter Dorian tax breaks
Abaco’s Chamber of Commerce president yesterday urged the Government not to use abuse of Hurricane Dorian-related tax breaks as an excuse to narrow or prematurely end his island’s “special economic zone” status.
