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COLINA BLASTS POLICYHOLDER LAWSUIT AS 'EMBARRASSING'
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Colina Insurance Company has slammed as "embarrassing" allegations that it "mis-sold and negligently misrepresented" the benefits of Universal Life insurance policies to five elderly Bahamian policyholders, who ha
PUTTING BEST FACE FORWARD
By Deidre M. Bastian Do you find yourself staring at another designer's logo and immediately trying to decipher what typeface or font they used? If you are a designer, it is probably an inevitable habit. However, there are no hard and fast rules to help
PUTTING BEST FACE FORWARD
By Deidre M. Bastian Do you find yourself staring at another designer's logo and immediately trying to decipher what typeface or font they used? If you are a designer, it is probably an inevitable habit. However, there are no hard and fast rules to help
PUTTING BEST FACE FORWARD
By Deidre M. Bastian Do you find yourself staring at another designer's logo and immediately trying to decipher what typeface or font they used? If you are a designer, it is probably an inevitable habit. However, there are no hard and fast rules to help
AML bucks 'post-Xmas lag' via 10% same-store rise
AML bucks 'post-Xmas lag' via 10% same-store rise By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor AML Foods yesterday said fears of a top-line hit from consumers taking ever-longer to recover from Christmas had failed to materialise, with its same-store sales
AML bucks 'post-Xmas lag' via 10% same-store rise
AML bucks 'post-Xmas lag' via 10% same-store rise By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor AML Foods yesterday said fears of a top-line hit from consumers taking ever-longer to recover from Christmas had failed to materialise, with its same-store sales
Ex-Miss Bahamas accuses Tourism on copyright, $130k
* Khiara Sherman claims song used with no say-so * Copyright infringed in promoting Bahamas to guests * And Ministry ‘breached’ three-year employment deal
A former Miss Bahamas Universe winner-turned-songstress is suing the Ministry of Tourism for allegedly breaching a $130,000 employment contract and violating her copyright. Khiara Sherman, who once represented the Bahamas at the global pageant then-controlled by US president, Donald Trump, is claiming the Ministry failed to obtain permission to use her song, Fly Away With Me, in its multi-million dollar marketing campaigns.
Drug wholesalers yet to feel PHA’s 20% spend rise
Major Bahamian pharmaceutical wholesalers last night said they were yet to feel the benefits of the Public Hospitals Authority’s (PHA) 20 per cent ‘local’ spending increase, with two reporting a decline in government sales this year.
TUC chief: Labour law reform ‘unlikely’ before next election
The Trades Union Congress’s (TUC) president yesterday said it was “highly unlikely” that the controversial labour law reforms will be enacted before the upcoming general election, with little progress in negotiations at the National Tripartite Council.
BOB rights offering takes Govt further down ‘wrong road’
The Government has been pushed further down “the wrong road” on Bank of the Bahamas by the recent $40 million rights offering, an outspoken shareholder said yesterday.
CCA: WE SHOULD TAKE ADVANTAGE OF BAHAMAS – Contractor reached out for help to son of top govt advisor
Baha Mar's main contractor asked the son of Perry Christie's top policy adviser to intervene when his father proposed changing The Pointe's Heads of Agreement over how many Bahamian construction workers would be employed.
Private sector targets NHI concerns Christmas present
The Bahamian private sector is hoping to present the Government with a consolidated list of its National Health Insurance (NHI) concerns before Christmas, amid fears that the scheme’s cost estimates “might not be the most ideal”.
BEC managerial talks start today
The Government will today begin negotiations with PowerSecure International over the five-year Bahamas Electricity Corporation (BEC) management contract, amid pledges that the deal will be overseen by “a non-partisan” Board.
Contractors Association: No Baha Mar woe reports yet
Senior Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) executives say they have yet to receive reports of local construction companies not getting due payments for work done on the $3.5 billion Baha Mar project.Senior Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) executives say they have yet to receive reports of local construction companies not getting due payments for work done on the $3.5 billion Baha Mar project.
Wilson: Ingraham responsible for Sth. Eleuthera’s ‘demise’
The developer adjacent to a newly-announced $100 million resort project believes they will together make Cotton Bay “the Caribbean’s premier destination”, as he blasted former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham for decisions that caused South Eleuthera’s “demise”.
Fiscal hawk fears politicians won’t ‘face the music’
The Government yesterday asked Moody’s to ‘take a bet’ that its economic growth and Budgetary initiatives will succeed, as a well-known fiscal hawk said: “They’re not going to have to face the music.”
NASSAU MUST BE INTELLECTUAL, NOT TOURIST, CAPITAL
By Richard Coulson During several recent months, the downward spiral in share prices and the threat of global recession have been largely driven by news - mostly bad - coming from the Eurozone. The abrupt reversal to price increases over the last few we
ATLANTIS BANKRUPTCY FEAR 'VERY FAR FETCHED'
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Kerzner International (Bahamas) chief executive yesterday described fears that the company's $2.5 billion lenders would look to foreclose or place the company into bankruptcy as "very far fetched", following Brook
Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag
Financial service executive settles on $615k 'offer'
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamian financial services executive has settled an action brought against him by Canadian regulators over a "false, misleading" $615,000 securities offering, agreeing to accept "the reduced charge of acting ag
