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Ten Red-line Athletics members CARIFTA ready
AS one of the top local track clubs in the country, the coaching staff of the Red-Line Athletics is quite pleased with the 10 members selected to represent the Bahamas on the 80-member team for the Oaktree Medical Center’s 50th CARIFTA Games.
$250m cruise port: ‘We’ll help Long Island flourish’
The proposed $250m Long Island cruise port will handle up to 12,000 persons daily at full build-out, one of its principals revealed yesterday, adding: “Our goal is to help Long Island flourish.”
Fair share: Hotel rental unit tax not in effect yet
A key Budget measure designed to ensure hotel rental pool units pay their fair share of taxation has yet to be implemented amid the wait for legislation to give it lawful effect.
Bahamas ‘nears a socialist state’
The Bahamas “is becoming a socialist state”, an outspoken FNM candidate said yesterday, blasting the Government’s decision to move ahead with controversial labour law reforms as “madness”.
Bahamas 'underestimated' cruise visitors spending
The Bahamas may have “underestimated” cruise passenger spend in Nassau and Freeport, a Cabinet Minister admitted yesterday, following reports of a 59 percent increase since 2015.
Ministry happy with coral farm progress post-Dorian
AGRICULTURE and Marine Resources Minister Michael Pintard toured Coral Vita’s land-based coral farm in Grand Bahama on Friday as his ministry moves to begin its Coral Restoration/Climate Action Project.
Oil exploration fears for 'eco centric mecca'
An Andros bonefishing lodge's co-owner has voice alarm that that "the eco-centric mecca" of The Bahamas could be irreparably harmed if oil exploration plans go awry.
Flowers: 'We grew up, not just as friends, but as family'
BUSINESSMAN and golfer Craig Flowers has called this one of the most difficult periods of his life, having lost his childhood friend and sporting legend Prince ‘Zorro’ Stubbs on Christmas Eve.Stubbs, 80, died at the Princess Margaret Hospital as a re
Flowers: I’m not firing staff
CRAIG Flowers says he has gone against the grain in opting not to lay off employees because it is not known if his company – FML Group of Companies - will suffer loss due to increased government taxes, which includes a five percent stamp tax on patrons.
DIANE PHILLIPS: The finest line of all – the last breath
AN old friend died this week. His death was not the saddest part of the story, the end of his life was.
INSIGHT: Don’t panic - it’s time to think of others, not just ourselves
AS the nation has watched the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, go from a “foreign virus” that spread through Wuhan, China, with epic speed, inch closer and closer to our shores, it has been unsettling to see it reach 118 countries to date. No doubt, any nation still reeling from the disastrous impact of Hurricane Dorian would have citizens gripped by fear.
200 jobs with new Grand Bahama medical school
A HEADS of Agreement was signed yesterday by the government for a new medical school in Freeport to be built in phases at an overall investment of $64.2 million over a 10-year period.
Liquidators reassure 1,000 Melia workers
Baha Mar’s joint provisional liquidators yesterday pledged that salaries and benefits due to the Melia Nassau Beach Hotel’s 1,000 staff would not be disrupted, even though the resort’s owner is one of the Baha Mar companies now under Supreme Court supervision.
Jets touch down on the Pros 28-22
AFTER week three of the Commonwealth American Football League, the top teams in the league remain deadlocked with 2-1 records, while the fourth team from the capital finally made their season debut.
RoyalStar: 15% of profits from ‘bad mortgage’ link
RoyalStar is aiming to “diversify” by building a closer relationship with its mortgage restructuring affiliate, its top executive yesterday revealing this will generate 10-15 per cent of its profits within the next three years.
RICHARD COULSON: How BISX falls short
Our Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX) recently launched its “new and improved, user friendly, website”. Just type www.bisxbahamas.com on your computer, and there it is ... unfortunately, a damp squib.
MLB: Bahamian players enter season highly ranked
WITH Major League Baseball spring training underway and franchises preparing their farm systems in the minors, several Bahamian players will enter the season highly ranked by their respective franchises.Jazz Chisholm is the highest ranked of any Baha
Former bank supervisor guilty
A FORMER bank supervisor yesterday admitted stealing over $35,000 from customer accounts to help pay her own bills.
Shipyard unveils first post-Dorian dry-dock
Grand Bahama Shipyard yesterday said it has dry-docked its first vessel since re-opening shortly after Hurricane Dorian hit The Bahamas early last month. Taipei Trader , a 9,932-ton containership operated by Lomar Shipping, docked at the number thre
BPL chief refutes generation deal ‘madness’ claim
Bahamas Power & Light (BPL) yesterday defended its hiring of an extra ten megawatts (MW) of expensive diesel-burning generators from fierce union criticism that it “makes no sense”.
