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PETER YOUNG: Outdated - by no means as the G7 has a vital role still to play tackling global issues
FOR a few days last week it could reasonably have been claimed the centre of international affairs and diplomacy was in England’s southwestern county of Cornwall. Under the annual rotating presidency system of the G7 – the world’s largest advanced economies and wealthiest liberal democracies – the UK had organised the group’s first face-to-face meeting since the beginning of the pandemic 18 months ago.
HACKERS STRIKE AT GOVT SYSTEM: Russians and Bulgarians behind cyber raid on key banking and personal data
The Government is "betwixt and between" over the Registrar General's Department's cyber security woes after being forced to again shut down its online database following fresh hacking attempts.
Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona dies at 60
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Diego Maradona, the Argentine soccer great who scored the "Hand of God" goal in 1986 and led his country to that year's World Cup title before later struggling with cocaine use and obesity, has died. He was 60.
PETER YOUNG: It’s vital we get our vaccine programme right and learn how others have fared
IN a free society it is axiomatic that authority should be held to account. Criticism of mistakes and failures should be encouraged, if only to prevent them in the future. So, on the thesis that it is the role of the Fourth Estate to scrutinise official policies and actions and to ask the tough questions, I return this week to the vexed issue of the coronavirus vaccine.
INSIGHT: Chinese investment – May be detrimental to Bahamas economic health
This is the second in a series of articles being written by Mr Carey Leonard, outlining why doing business with the Chinese (Beijing) is not proving beneficial to the Bahamas. Mr Leonard, a commercial lawyer, is an associate in the law firm of Callenders & Co., Freeport.
Disaster fund's $60m levy: 'You can't afford to gamble'
The Bahamas could accumulate over $60 million per year in hurricane “preventative medicine” through a Canadian-led proposal for a disaster recovery fund.Don Maga, principal of The Sand Consulting Group, told Tribune Business yesterday that the 2017 h
'Case not made' for joining WTO
The Government “has not yet made the case” for joining the WTO, a senior Chamber executive arguing that the Bahamas had “squandered” a 16-year period to ready itself for this day.Darron Pickstock, who heads the Chamber of Commerce’s trade and investm
Bahamas needs $670m for 'first world' health facilities
The Bahamas needs a $670m capital investment to “bring our healthcare facilities into the 21st century and up to par with the first world”, a Cabinet minister revealed yesterday. Dr Duane Sands, pictured , minister of health, confirmed to Tribune Bu
INSIGHT: With an economy on its knees, straight-shooter Sol arrived with a dream
Ex Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham on Sol Kerzner’s contribution to The Bahamas.
COVID-19's big economic rebuild - 2020 and beyond
In the first of a new three-part series, Hubert Edwards looks at the scale of the recovery task confronting The Bahamas in the immediate term and further out The Bahamian economy must be rebuilt following this global crisis. We deliberately avoid
S&P: ‘Reforms will take time to pay off’
The Government last night hailed its success in breaking “the perpetual cycle of credit rating downgrades”, despite Standard & Poor’s (S&P) warning its reforms will “take time to pay dividends”.
The Way Forward Part 2: Party Structure and Governance
FROM October 2016 to January 2017, my campaign team and I undertook a listening tour amongst stalwart councillors, branch officers and delegates of the PLP in New Providence, Abaco, North and Central Andros, Bimini, Cat Island, Grand Bahama, Eleuther
A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Too many questions and not enough answers over Baha Mar
THE Chinese Government, the China Export-Import Bank (CEXIM) and their co-conspirators, the Bahamian Government, all appeared to have “gooseyed” Baha Mar developer Sarkis Izmirlian, ripping his brainchild from his hands and ignoring him like the rude child in the room.
ArawakX ‘to be reported’ to police amid $4m insolvency
The Bahamas’ first-ever crowd funding platform is suffering from a near-$4m insolvency, its provisional liquidators have asserted, as they prepare to report “multiple criminal infractions” to the police.
YOUR SAY: Time for a Christie shuffle
PRIME Minister Perry Christie has announced that he does not intend to shuffle his cabinet at this time. We think that there is compelling evidence that he should reconsider that decision.
TOUGH CALL: Opening our eyes to how dolphins are treated
FOR most people of a certain age, our image of the cheerful, helpful and super intelligent bottlenose dolphin was formed by the iconic 1960s Flipper television series – a marine version of Lassie.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Bahamas is a powder keg
AS this year draws to a close and the celebration of Christmas in a few days takes hold of our national consciousness, it is clear that a tsunami of death and mayhem has surged over Bahamian society.
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The beautiful but voracious lionfish are now threatening the Gulf
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The storm that tore away the pretence of competence
HURRICANE Joaquin has not only made broad swaths of our people homeless refugees within their own country, but the storm is daily exposing the failed planning and incompetency of our government.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Bank of the Bahamas fiasco highlights social inequality
THE Bank of the Bahamas (BOB) fiasco is a national disgrace and rational, reasonable Bahamians cannot help but wonder how that BISX-listed institution’s loan portfolio could become such a shameful mess with the accrual of hundreds of millions of dollars of non-performing loans. The bank can only be likened to an asue where everyone withdraws and drops out once they have got their share.
