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Roberts tells Izmirlian: Show us the money
PLP CHAIRMAN Bradley Roberts yesterday said Sarkis Izmirlian must “show us the money” if he is serious about purchasing the stalled $3.5 billion Baha Mar resort.
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Bannister gives testimony on WSC contracts
FORMER Works Minister Desmond Bannister claimed in court yesterday that he never approved contracts to paint water tanks and buildings belonging to the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC) when he was in office.
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$232m borrowing to pay for boats
THE Christie administration will today table a resolution to borrow $232 million to purchase nine new Royal Bahamas Defence Force vessels.
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You are the change you are looking for!
Everywhere you turn, people are looking for change; craving an improved disposition, especially in their personal life or their outer circumstances. Yearning and wanting is how they spend most of their time. They are waiting for change to happen to them as oppose to them happening to change.
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Bahamian pro basketball players in Euro spotlight
BAHAMIAN pro basketball players across various leagues in Europe produced season highs in early season play for their new clubs.
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Water Corp needs 'top up' to $20m subsidies
Water Corp needs 'top up' to $20m subsidies By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Water & Sewerage Corporation will "definitely need" an increase to the existing $20 million taxpayer subsidy allocated to it for the 2011-2012 fiscal year, its gene
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BEC saddled by $86m fuel debt
THE Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) currently owes its major fuel supplier more than $86 million, its executive chairman revealed yesterday, adding that the monopoly energy supplier was paying Shell West excess of $18 million a month “just to keep going”.
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Gov’t critic praises ‘impressive’ Budget
A well-known Government critic has praised the Christie administration for so far living up to its Value-Added Tax (VAT) promises, and starting the process to “move the Bahamas away from the fiscal cliff”.
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CIBC: Bahamas stands tall versus rest of Caribbean
The Government’s fiscal reform efforts have been praised by CIBC FirstCaribbean’s Canadian parent, which believes the Bahamas’ sovereign rating “measures up pretty well against” over Caribbean nations.
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Cynthia Stuart
Funeral service for the late Cynthia Stuart aged 81 years of #129 Sapodilla Boulevard, Pinewood Gardens, and formerly of Orange Creek, Cat Island, who died on 6th January, 2016, will be held on Saturday, 16th, January, 2016, at 10:00 a.m., …
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Joseph Dorleus Dorlean
Funeral Service for the Late Joseph Dorleus Dorlean age: 81 years of Young Street, formerly off Mole St Nicolas ,Haiti will be held at. Time: 2: 00 pm Date: Sunday 23rd, March 2014 Church: Ermaus Baptist Church on McCullough Corner …
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Anora Campbell-Pearce
Funeral service for Mother Anora Campbell-Pearce, 81, a resident of King Street, & formerly of Fairview, Portland Jamaica, will be held at Faith Apostolic Church, Blue Hill Road South, on Saturday at 11:00 a.m. Officiating will be BishopWinston Redwood. Interment …
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Regina M Nixon-Johnson née Albury
Regina M. Nixon-Johnson née Albury, 81 Formerly of Harbour Island Bahamas and a resident of #21 Palmetto Crest, Marathon Estates, Nassau, Bahamas, died at Princess Margaret Hospital on Tuesday, December 17, 2019. She is survived by her Children: Lenora Nixon-Dean, …
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Vance Wadsworth Hunt Major
Funeral Service for Vance Wadsworth Hunt Major, age 81 years, a resident of Sky End Road Eastern Estates , will be held on Friday, October 4th 2013, 10 :00 a.m. at Believers Gospel Chapel, Prince Charles Drive. Officiating will be …
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Don’t gamble away the legal profession
Do you consider yourself a gambler? Opening the Bahamian legal system to foreign law firms is just that: A gamble. There is only a small chance (20 per cent, give or take) that opening the legal system to foreign law firms will drastically increase offshore financial services bsiness for the Bahamas.
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Tourism Minister calls Minnis’ Bahamasair comments ‘irresponsible’
TOURISM, Aviation and Investments Minister Chester Cooper said former Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis was “irresponsible” when he told parliamentarians on Monday that millions of dollars were missing from Bahamasair.
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Returning $22m to Kozeny will allow ’completion of fraud’
The $22 million battle between the Czech authorities and Viktor Kozeny continues to heat up, the former alleging that returning the funds to the Lyford Cay-based financier will enable him to “complete his fraud”.
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GIBSON FAILS IN LEGAL CHALLENGE: Judge rules MP can have fair trial after rejecting arguments
A SUPREME Court judge dismissed Adrian Gibson’s application to stay his corruption trial yesterday, ruling his constitutional rights have not been infringed and that he can have a fair trial even if the Crown’s key witness gives testimony virtually.
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WSC worker denies being coerced to testify against Gibson
A SENIOR employee at the Water and Sewerage Corporation denied a defence attorney’s suggestion yesterday that she was coerced into giving evidence against Adrian Gibson and his co-accused to avoid being charged in the case.
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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.
