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Doctors enjoys up to 40% non-COVID revenue rise
Doctors Hospital plans to unveil its new Bay Street pharmacy within 30 days, a top executive revealed yesterday, with monthly non-COVID revenues up to 40 percent higher than pre-pandemic comparatives.
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IDB: Bahamas ‘4x costlier’ over company registration
Registering a company in the Bahamas is “four times’ costlier” than in developed countries, with less than 3 per cent of government procedures able to be completed online.
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Steven Gardiner Senior Male Athlete of Year
IN a year where we’ve had some extraordinary performances by players on their various international teams, Steven Gardiner managed to prevail above them all with his Olympic gold medal to earn The Tribune Sports’ 2021 Male Athlete of the Year.
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Developer’s fears on home construction ‘horror stories’
Construction materials shortages and COVID-19 will combine to create “horror stories” for Bahamians in the process of building their own homes, a prominent developer predicted yesterday.
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‘Shaq attack’
Bahamian basketball player Shaquille Cleare and his Texas Longhorns continue to stockpile signature wins in his first year with the programme and under head coach Shaka Smart.
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Florceta Nottage (née Rolle)
Funeral Service for the late Florceta Nottage (née Rolle), 84 years of #84 Sumner Street, Nassau Village and formerly of Deep Creek, South Andros, who died on Friday, 19th April, 2019, will be held at Living Faith Seventh-Day Adventist Church, …
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QC: ‘Opening for compromise’ on Grand Bahama Power deal
A PROMINENT QC believes there is “an opening for compromise” over the $35 million Grand Bahama Power Company buy-out that would serve all parties’ interests.
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‘Strong bank interest’ sparks hope $150m issue fully subscribed
The Government’s new Treasury Note security will ultimately reduce its debt financing costs, its financial adviser said yesterday, conceding it was “difficult to tell” whether the first $150 million issue will be fully subscribed.
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Dance to the Zumba beatInstructors host big fitness party
Created by Colombian dancer and choreographer Alberto Perez in the mid-90s, Zumba is a Latin-American fitness craze that has taken the world by storm.Here in the Bahamas, its popularity soared in the 2000s, with fitness instructors putting their
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Potcakes rescue mission
AROUND 80 dogs from the Bahamas Humane Society will take part in a “Wings of Rescue” flight to the United States this morning as a part of a plan to reduce the population in the overcrowded shelter.
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Bran: 'Can't water out of stone' over health VAT
A former Democratic National Alliance (DNA) leader is blasting the Government's "misguided decision" to change the VAT treatment of health insurance claims payouts, arguing: "You can't get water out of a stone."
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Battle erupts over ‘100% green’ resort
A Bahamian private island, billed as the world’s first “carbon neutral” luxury eco-resort, is at the centre of a bitter dispute as the March 15 deadline for its $3.8m “minimum bid” auction looms.
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Man jailed for drug possession makes plea for wife's acquittal
A 46-year-old man sentenced to a year in prison on Friday for drug possession made a passionate plea to the deputy chief magistrate and the Crown to have his wife of less than 90 days acquitted of the crime.
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Make Nassau Harbour breaches 'top of pile'
Nassau Harbour’s deteriorating breakwaters should be “top of the pile” in the Government’s priorities, a port chief argued yesterday, given the threat to 90 per cent of the city’s imports.Michael Maura, Arawak Port Development Company’s (APD) chief e
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It’s 24 hours: Minnis ramps up curfew to tighten grip in virus war
FACED with a matter of “life and death”, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced more stringent COVID-19 prevention measures, including a daily 24-hour curfew and the closure of airports and seaports beginning at 9am today through to March 31.
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$2m BPL microgrid winner’s deal offload
The winning bidder to develop Ragged Island’s $2m solar microgrid, on the same day it signed the deal with BPL, assigned all project rights to an entity that failed to make the final tender round.
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Genting assesses Nassau 'business opportunities'
The multi-billion dollar Genting Group is assessing various “potential business opportunities” in New Providence after being heavily courted by the Christie administration, Tribune Business has been told, with the Atlantis resort said to be among the options.
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New Providence or New Orleans?
I saw Twitter images of severe flooding throughout parts of New Providence over the weekend. I believe it was a meteorologist who told either The Nassau Guardian or The Tribune that the severe flooding caused by torrential rains was a hurricane drill for New Providence residents. As a resident of Grand Bahama who lived through Hurricanes Francis, Jeanne, Matthew and Dorian, I want Nassau residents to understand that the recent flooding in their communities is nothing compared to the flooding the aforementioned cyclones brought to our island.
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Web shop gains 'stay' on closure
The only web shop operator to be denied a licence has obtained a stay of the Supreme Court decision that effectively paved the way for its closure two weeks ago.
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Canadian government issues travel warning for the Bahamas
THE Canadian government has again warned its citizens to exercise a “high degree of caution” when travelling to The Bahamas to avoid falling prey to this country’s “high rates of crime.”
