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CLICO victims urge: 'We need a new day'

The Government was yesterday urged to "make it a new day" for long-suffering CLICO (Bahamas) policyholders amid concerns that zero of the $3.8m compensation allocated in the 2022-2023 Budget has been paid out.

G-Ball Andre Rodgers National Baseball Championships back in NP

WITH the opening of the new Andre Rodgers Baseball Stadium, the Bahamas Baseball Association has decided to bring its G-Ball Andre Rodgers National Baseball Championships back to New Providence.

DPM urges Bahamian investors to help add to room capacity as hotels are full

TOURISM Minister Chester Cooper urged Bahamian investors to open their homes to help meet tourism demand, citing room capacity as a challenge due to high hotel occupancy rates.

Bahamas 'not maximising' impact as tourism booms

The deputy prime minister yesterday admitted The Bahamas has failed "to maximise visitor spending", and retain more of this within its economy, despite a "booming" tourism industry whose numbers "have never been better".

Fix child protection act for dads

I am writing to bring awareness to a social crisis that has permeated Bahamian society, and that is fatherhood absenteeism.

Small Business Centre invests $800k in female entrepreneurs

The Small Business Development Centre’s (SBDC) executive director yesterday said it has invested $800,000 in in female entrepreneurs via 87 grants.

Cleaning up above and below water

The Bahamas Reef Environment Education Foundation (BREEF) held an above and underwater beach clean-up in commemoration of World’s Ocean Day last weekend.

INSIGHT: Authorities in the spotlight - but where are the cameras?

A SERIES of stories in recent times have again raised questions over how people are treated who get caught up in dealings with our forces in uniform.

'Incalculable' value from Bahamas' 176 wrecks

A Bahamas-based underwater explorer says the value to this nation's underwater cultural heritage from the 176 extra ship wrecks identified within its licence area is "incalculable" and "cannot be measured in dollars".

FTX Bahamas: Only we can pursue void payouts

FTX's Bahamian liquidators are asserting they may be the only ones "lawfully" able to pursue "material volumes" of client withdrawals that occurred around the time of the exchange's collapse and may thus be deemed void.

Jonquel Jones posts first double-double of the season

The Bahamas’ Jonquel Jones posted her first double-double of the Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA) season this past Sunday. Jones also turned in her second highest point total of the season as the second leading scorer in the New York Liberty’s win against the Phoenix Mercury. Although the Liberty team was without their All-Star guard Sabrina Ionesecu, the third-seeded team routed the Mercury 89-71.

Gov't to 'unleash' $200m Water Corp investments

An MP yesterday said the Davis administration is poised to "unleash" the most ambitious capital investment initiative ever by the Water & Sewerage Corporation with $200m earmarked for 80 projects over a five-year period.

Clubs & Societies June 16th, 2023

The Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, Pi Upsilon Omega Chapter in Grand Bahama celebrated its 36th anniversary of sisterhood and service.

Charities asked: Do you hold any of FTX’s $5.4m?

FTX’s Bahamian liquidators are “liaising” with local charities and non-profits over the collective $5.4m in donations they received from the collapsed crypto exchange to determine if they still hold any of these funds.

Andros shipper ‘exceeds every financial projection’

An Andros shipping company, which in summer 2021 was hailed as the largest recipient of financing arranged through the Small Business Development Centre (SBDC), yesterday said it has “beaten every financial projection” since launching.

44 percent of students need ‘urgent intervention’

A LEARNING loss survey found that 44 per cent of public school students require urgent learning intervention, Education Minister Glenys Hanna Martin said yesterday.

‘We knew’ prison would fail accreditation bid

DOAN Cleare, the acting commissioner of corrections, admitted yesterday that the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services failed an accreditation inspection earlier this year, saying officials knew the prison would “fail miserably”.

Just 8% of arable land being used for farming

Just 8 percent of all land allocated for Bahamian farming is presently being used for such purposes, it was revealed yesterday.

Immigration Department collects $80m in revenue ytd; ‘largest in our history’

IMMIGRATION Minister Keith Bell said the immigration department collected nearly $80m in revenue between last July and this March –– the largest in the agency’s history.

Woman accused of unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old boy

A 36-year-old woman is behind bars after being accused of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old boy last month.

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