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Water Corp targets 'banner year' with $15m contracts
The Water & Sewerage Corporation is confident 2014 will be “the real banner year”, as it targets a further one million gallon per day reduction in water losses and the release of $15 million in construction contracts.
SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: My Miami vice - reflections from a road trip
MOST of you thought I was joking when I said I was going to Miami to ensure my Cowboys beat the Dolphins.
Baha Mar liquidators seek ‘emergency’ $25m
Baha Mar’s joint provisional liquidators yesterday sought Supreme Court approval to borrow $25 million, warning they would have to shut the Melia Nassau Beach Resort if unable to meet an $8.7 million insurance payment falling due on Monday.
Wind-up delay gives Baha Mar resolution time
The Attorney General yesterday suggested the three-week delay to Baha Mar’s winding-up hearing was intended to give all parties more time to reach a “hoped for” commercial resolution to the $3.5 billion dispute.
Two sets of Baha Mar guardians just ‘crazy’
The Opposition’s deputy leader believes it “makes no sense” for there to be two different sets of receivers/liquidators looking after Baha Mar, branding the situation as “crazy”.
Data Protection chief’s 20-fold complaints rise
THE Data Protection Commissioner has seen a near 20-fold increase in the number of complaints since she took the post two years ago, with her office now preparing to investigate the hacking of a Bahamian bank’s website.
Baha Mar beat local bidding target by 68%
Baha Mar says it has “far exceeded” its commitment to provide Bahamian contractors with $400 million worth of work, beating this target by 67.8 per cent while more than 6,000 local jobs to-date.
'Criminal' wait for Bay Street height decision
The 10-month wait for a government decision on whether to lift downtown Nassau’s height restrictions was yesterday branded “criminal”, a leading realtor saying it was depressing property values and inhibiting investment proposals critical to the area’s revival.
Contractor chief: PM’s Baha Mar pay pledges ‘don’t mean anything’
The Prime Minister’s repeated promises that Bahamian contractors will be paid for Baha Mar work “doesn’t mean anything to us”, the Bahamian Contractors Association’s (BCA) president said yesterday, adding: “It’s all up in the air.”
Lynden Pindling said ‘tell the truth’ - that includes Baha Mar
“GET up and get going or you will be gone!” was the swift kick in the pants that the late Prime Minister Sir Lynden Pindling gave his MPs on the last night of the PLP’s 35th national convention.
Dingman: ‘Rampant theft’ caused restaurant failure
Jamie Dingman has blamed the collapse of his Nassau restaurant empire on “rampant theft and mismanagement”, and plans to call a former FNM Cabinet minister as a defence witness in his battle against a $1.113 million damages claim.
Track athlete Lauren turns mentor, coach
SHE had a promising career as a track and field athlete, but after going off to school, Lauren Charlton-Szczygiel has changed her focus and is now giving back to Michigan State University as a mentor and coach.
NAUGHTY'S NFL PICKS WEEK 2: ‘Redskins make it a shootout but don’t have enough arrows to win’
OKAY I went 9-7 last week, but if not for a missed field goal in Arizona and a mental breakdown in Dallas I would be a solid 11-5, but almost only counts in horse racing and with hand grenades.
Sears shrugs off MP support for PM
PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leader-hopeful Alfred Sears yesterday called the paltry level of endorsements from sitting members of Parliament for incumbent leader Prime Minister Perry Christie to stay on as party leader a “distraction”.
ALICIA WALLACE: No excuse for failing to disclose on time
HERE we are again. It is a familiar place. Government administrations change with some regularity, and many of the practices remain the same.
Vixens defeat the Lady Truckers
THE New Providence Volleyball Association opened its 2012/2013 season at the DW Davis Gym on Sunday.
Attorney urges Further reform of 'all or nothing' insolvency laws
The Government was yesterday urged to further reform the Bahamas’ “all or nothing” insolvency laws, a leading commercial attorney yesterday describing them as “archaic” and needing to become more “humane”.
Insolvent broker: $2.76 owed by affiliates 'could alter significantly'
THE sums owed to Owen Bethel's insolvent Montaque Capital Partners by affiliated companies "could differ significantly" from the initial $2.76 million estimate, liquidators for the Bahamian broker/dealer have warned, as they continue to also probe deals linked to Mr Bethel's family.
Parking ‘satisfied’: Wynn penthouse project is go
The Town Planning Committee’s chairman yesterday confirmed it has approved Wynn Group’s 14-storey Goodman’s Bay penthouses after it “satisfied” long-standing parking concerns.
ArawakX ‘good undeniable’ yet KC confident on full winding-up
ArawakX’s president says “nobody can deny the good” it achieved as Securities Commission attorneys hailed the appointment of provisional liquidators as vital to “protecting the capital markets”.
