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Fidelity ‘not revising’ $16m profits target

Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) yesterday said it is “not revising” its $16m profit target for the 2023 full-year despite its bottom line for the first nine months slumping by 31.5 percent year-over-year.

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Long Island developers eye Diamond Crystal site revival

A developer aiming to transform the site of Long Island’s one-time largest employer yesterday pledged to “change the narrative” that “conservation and development are at odds” in The Bahamas.

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Long Island developers hope for ‘quick’ approvals

Two developers targeting Long Island’s former Diamond Crystal plant with separate eco-tourism investments yesterday voiced optimism that the required approvals will be processed “very quickly”.

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DPM wants Long Island airport opening this term

The deputy prime minister yesterday said he “fully expects to cut the ribbon” for the opening of Long Island’s new international airport before the Davis administration’s term in office ends in 2026.

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BPL hit by three-fold ordering time jump

A Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) executive yesterday urged new developers to inform it of their energy needs as rapidly as possible given that it now takes three times’ as long to order key parts.

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West Grand Bahama and Bimini By-Election Advanced Poll sees 95 percent turnout

THE advanced poll in Bimini had a 95 per cent turnout rate, according to administrator Eva Kay Arthur, the assistant returning officer overseeing the process on that island.

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Police Chief ‘will search for files’ in Nygard probe

POLICE Commissioner Clayton Fernander said he will search for the investigation files concerning complaints women in The Bahamas made about Peter Nygard to see why charges were never brought against the former fashion mogul.

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STATESIDE: America’s 2024 political campaign began this week

THE last general election is over. The results were consistent with 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2018, inasmuch as they represented a gradual but discernible movement away from the MAGA echoes of the Republican-aligned Tea Party movement of the 1990s. These election results also seem to indicate that voters are tiring of the chaos that always seems to surround Donald Trump, even if they very fondly remember the nation’s prosperity while he was president.

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FRONT PORCH: The empathy and duty of care of Dr Perry Gomez

THIS past Tuesday the country said farewell to Dr Michael Perry Gomez, who demonstrated extraordinary compassion and service as a medical doctor and public servant throughout his professional life.

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EDITORIAL: A pyramid of problems for Grant

Bishop Ricardo Grant’s campaign to become the new MP for West Grand Bahama and Bimini is in trouble.

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Burna Boy concert coming December 16

GLOBAL afro beats sensation Burna Boy will headline a musical extravaganza at Carnival Grounds next month.

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Retail’s extra ‘strain’ in Christmas run-up

Bahamian retailers say downtown closures, and a longer wait to clear key stock, are imposing extra “strain” on the “make or break” Christmas shopping season that has assumed greater importance this year.

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‘Full probe’ demand on WSC chair resignation

The Opposition’s chairman last night demanded “a full investigation” into the resignation of the Water & Sewerage Corporation’s executive chairman, asserting: “You’ve opened the box so let’s see what’s in it.”

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DPM blasts ‘unacceptable’ Aliv, BTC dropped calls

The Deputy Prime Minister yesterday said the service quality provided by the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) and Aliv is “unacceptable” with their failings “difficult to comprehend”.

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Pilot ‘cannibalisation’ fear on Bahamasair

Private Bahamian airlines fear they will be “cannibalised” by Bahamasair poaching their best pilots to ease its cockpit shortage amid the ongoing impasse over raising the retirement age to 65.

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‘Companies awarded contracts were not approved contractors’

A SENIOR manager of the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC), who claimed to be related to Adrian Gibson, testified that the companies awarded contracts to paint water tanks when Mr Gibson was executive chairman were not on the corporation’s approved contractor list nor known to engineers.

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Grandmother: Child found dead was ‘sweet, sweet boy’

A DISTRAUGHT grandmother wants to know the circumstances around the death of her two-year-old grandson Daniel Nixon, “a sweet, sweet boy” found dead in bushes near his home on Tuesday.

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FNM’S GRANT WAS IN PYRAMID SCHEME: ‘We owe no one’ says MP candidate as Sands says they were victims

THE Free National Movement’s West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election candidate Bishop Ricardo Grant and his wife Shandlene Grant participated in a pyramid scheme in 2020 where some people lost their investments and never received promised payouts.

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PLP must act over living cost

As the member of Parliament for Killarney, I have heard repeatedly from constituents as to how hard it is to make ends meet due to the high cost of living. The price of food is high. Gas prices are high. The cost of electricity is sky-high.

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Doctors Hospital: Blake Road revenues surge on gov’t deal

Doctors Hospital has revealed that in-patient revenues at its Blake Road facility near-quadrupled during its 2024 first quarter due to the deal to treat public healthcare patients there.