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Gov’t extends web shop bid deadline
The Government has extended the deadline for web shops to submit their licence bids by two-and-a-half weeks to March 10, with both sides yet to completely resolve their differences on how the sector’s taxes are to be calculated.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Curing PMH’s ills one blanket at a time
How do you fix a problem that costs 20 times more to run than the revenue it generates?
PRINCESS Margaret Hospital is in poor financial health. And that is being kind.
Year-round real estate: July 'best month' by 30%
Realtors yesterday asserted the Bahamian property market has joined tourism in becoming a year-round industry with one revealing that July exceeded all other months "by at least 30 percent" as the strongest for contract signings.
No resolution over food price control ‘stalemate’
The Bahamian food distribution industry was last night said to have reached a “stalemate” over efforts to strike a price control deal with the Government via a 1,000-strong product list designed to “more than half-way” meet its demands.
Residents ‘won’t let guard down’ on hotel expansion
Residents in Tropical Gardens and Gambier Heights yesterday pledged they will “not let our guard down” even though a controversial planning application has been placed in the “pending file”.
Disney targeting Lighthouse Point work start in 2021
Disney Cruise Line yesterday voiced hope it can start developing its Lighthouse Point project this year while reaffirming the investment and job creation commitments given pre-COVID-19.
Unions: We’ll stop employers ‘ripping out workers’ guts’
Trade unions yesterday promised they would “continue to agitate” for an increase in the 12-year redundancy ‘cap’, arguing that only they stood between employers “ripping the guts out of working people”.
Minister allays fears of ‘impossible’ landfill deal
THE Government yesterday reassured New Providence landfill bidders it was open to a long-term deal, after some warned that five years made it “impossible” to generate sufficient returns.
Crisis takes toll in jobs at Grand Bahama shipyard
The Grand Bahama Shipyard has terminated 27 workers, including several long-serving managerial staff, due to a further slump in business caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
DIANE PHILLIPS: It all starts with a simple idea
Who among us hasn’t at one moment or another thought, “If only I were younger” or “If only I had more financial backing, I could do such-and-such” or “Why doesn’t someone create a business to do (xyz)?”
Hotel Corp chief ‘ecstatic’ over Andros resort’s sale
The Hotel Corporation’s chairman yesterday said he was “ecstatic” that multi-year efforts to sell the Lighthouse Yacht Club and Marina had finally succeeded, likening it to “michaelangelo painting the Sistine Chapel”.
CLASH OF THE TITANS: Buddy Hield and the Kings top Deandre Ayton and Suns, 122-105
PHOENIX, Arizona — The much anticipated first NBA regular season game featuring two Bahamian born players quickly turned into a lopsided win for Buddy Hield and his Sacramento Kings.
Magnum Rolle helps Wyverns roar in Japan
AFTER joining his new club near the mid-season mark, Magnum Rolle has paid immediate dividends for the Passlab Yamagata Wyverns in Japan’s National Basketball Development League.
Two banks robbed, two suspects apprehended
AN unarmed man reportedly jumped over the counter at First Caribbean Bank at the Malll at Marathon and grabbed an unknown amount of cash
Gov’t willing to go beyond $20m on BEC clean-up
The Deputy Prime Minister yesterday suggested that the Government will allocate more than $20 million to tackle the Bahamas Electricity Corporation’s (BEC) legacy pollution if necessary.
20 years of fun at camp
THE Adventure Learning Centre is carrying out an enhancement project in commemoration of its 20th anniversary and RBC has stepped in lend major support to the initiative.
Now lecturers rebel over UB pay offer: 82 cents a day
THE Union of Tertiary Educators of The Bahamas expects to hold a mass demonstration today, incensed by a University of The Bahamas proposal to increase salaries by a meagre 82 cents per day.
Saunders starts at TE for the Seminoles in 29-24 victory
IT was something the Florida State Seminoles coaching staff had promised for weeks but it finally came to fruition in a rivalry game as Bahamian Mavin Saunders took on a bigger role in the offence.
Cooper and Cougars earn 38-24 victory over Saunders and Seminoles
IT was a storybook ending to a nearly perfect season for one Bahamian college football player as his team defeated another Bahamian on the opposing side of an historic bowl matchup.
Munroe left ‘disappointed’ by increased murder tally
NATIONAL Security Minister Wayne Munroe expressed disappointment yesterday in the country’s murder toll which is the highest since 2017, saying “if one person is murdered, I am disappointed.”
