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Accounting firm plans 25% staff ‘ramp up’

A Bahamian accounting firm is aiming to “ramp up” staffing levels through 25 per cent growth over the next year, as it eyes opportunities in the digital space.

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Group warns against foreign ownership of GB Power company

THE Coalition of Concerned Citizens is urging Bahamian shareholders in ICD Utilities not to sell their shares and allow a foreign company to have 100 per cent ownership in a vital utility infrastructure in Grand Bahama.

Long Island water upgrade eyed for 2018 first quarter

PUBLIC tendering for a long-awaited water supply improvement project for Long Island will begin this month, the island’s MP yesterday revealing work will begin in the 2018 first quarter.

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D’Aguilar: We will be flexible

TOURISM and Aviation Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar said the government will be flexible with web shop taxes, adjusting its new sliding scale scheme if it proves too onerous.

Woman dies as car crashes into barriers on Munnings Rd

A WOMAN was killed yesterday morning when her burgundy 2013 Hyundai Elantra collided into road barriers on Munnings Road.Paramedics pronounced her, Garvanisha Anastasia Carey, dead on scene after attempting to revive her.The death prompted fresh crit

EDITORIAL: Broadcasting sector on verge of collapse

DESPITE the warnings on August 4, 2004, of then Cabinet Minister Obie Wilchcombe that “while government had 50 applications for additional broadcast licences for New Providence, it would have to proceed very carefully, if at all, as the market is overcrowded.” That was 14 years ago,

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Kings' moves indicate uncertainty over buddy's role going forward

THE Sacramento Kings front office continues to make transactions that indicate uncertainty about Buddy Hield’s role with the organisation moving forward.The Kings signed restricted free agent guard Zach LaVine to a four-year $78 million offer sheet,

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$211m borrowing approved to aid electric supplier

FINANCIAL crisis was cited as the reason government yesterday passed a resolution to borrow $211m to aid the Bahamas Electricity Corporation.This undesirable situation, the resolution said, was caused by the high cost of fuel in 2018, funding of capi

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'Let's give the NPWBA the credit they deserve'

THE New Providence Women’s Basketball Association didn’t have a full season like they normally do, nor did they have a full complement of teams participating.But league president Mynez Sherman should be commended along with her executives for pulling

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Evictions to follow as census completed

THE government’s shanty town census in New Providence has been completed, Labour Minister Dion Foulkes announced, as the government prepares to evict residents from homes in these illegal communities.

Contractor chief: 'Show me numbers' on Pointe

The Bahamian Contractors Association’s (BCA) president yesterday demanded to “see the numbers” showing Bahamian participation on The Pointe project has increased 100-150 percent.Leonard Sands called on the government to show just how many Bahamians a

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Downed trees and Bimini left without power

AS Hurricane Irma barreled into Florida, the nearby island of Bimini experienced tropical storm conditions on Sunday with wind gusts of about 80mph, heavy flooding and reports of a tornado tearing roofs off homes.

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NCAA: Swimmers make a splash

Bahamian student athletes have excelled early in the NCAA Division I aquatics season.Izaak Bastian, now in his sophomore year with the No.15 ranked Florida State Seminoles, continues to emerge as a standout for the nationally ranked side.The Seminole

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Oil explorer: 'All the tools we will need'

A Bahamas-based oil explorer yesterday said it now has “all the tools we need” to drill an exploratory well within the 2020 year-end target set by the government, its top executive said yesterday.Simon Potter, the Bahamas Petroleum Company’s (BPC) ch

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Child, nine, among new cases of infected

THE number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the country has jumped by three to 24 and a nine-year-old girl is among the infected.

Mask producers mixed over import prohibition

Local face mask producers yesterday had a mixed reaction to the prime minister’s decision to ban the importation of non-medical rivals in a bid to stimulate domestic manufacturing. Oscar Cerna, a local tailor, told Tribune Business that the move wou

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Low testosterone

Andropause, or male menopause, is a real health condition that thousands of Bahamian men, like their counterparts worldwide, often suffer unknowingly.

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PM defends increase in travel budget

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis yesterday defended the government’s decision to increase its travel benefits for Cabinet ministers and their spouses.He insisted that records would show that officials’ spouses have not been taking advantage of the ben

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We won't spend money unwisely, says Minnis

AFTER facing backlash over the government's decision to increase travel benefits for Cabinet ministers and their spouses, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said tax dollars will not be spent irresponsibly. Speaking at Parliament, Dr Minnis said the go

Optimism over new home for UB North

THERE is strong “optimism” concerning negotiations for a new permanent location in Freeport for the University of the Bahamas North after the loss of the $10m campus and $4.5m residence hall in East Grand Bahama due to Hurricane Dorian. Dr Ian Strac