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EDITORIAL: A pyramid of problems for Grant
Bishop Ricardo Grant’s campaign to become the new MP for West Grand Bahama and Bimini is in trouble.
Complaints of slow process at advance poll for West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election
VOTERS arrived early and queued despite inclement weather yesterday as the advance poll took place for the West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election.
Burna Boy concert coming December 16
GLOBAL afro beats sensation Burna Boy will headline a musical extravaganza at Carnival Grounds next month.
Retail’s extra ‘strain’ in Christmas run-up
Bahamian retailers say downtown closures, and a longer wait to clear key stock, are imposing extra “strain” on the “make or break” Christmas shopping season that has assumed greater importance this year.
‘Full probe’ demand on WSC chair resignation
The Opposition’s chairman last night demanded “a full investigation” into the resignation of the Water & Sewerage Corporation’s executive chairman, asserting: “You’ve opened the box so let’s see what’s in it.”
DPM blasts ‘unacceptable’ Aliv, BTC dropped calls
The Deputy Prime Minister yesterday said the service quality provided by the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) and Aliv is “unacceptable” with their failings “difficult to comprehend”.
Pilot ‘cannibalisation’ fear on Bahamasair
Private Bahamian airlines fear they will be “cannibalised” by Bahamasair poaching their best pilots to ease its cockpit shortage amid the ongoing impasse over raising the retirement age to 65.
‘Companies awarded contracts were not approved contractors’
A SENIOR manager of the Water and Sewerage Corporation (WSC), who claimed to be related to Adrian Gibson, testified that the companies awarded contracts to paint water tanks when Mr Gibson was executive chairman were not on the corporation’s approved contractor list nor known to engineers.
Grandmother: Child found dead was ‘sweet, sweet boy’
A DISTRAUGHT grandmother wants to know the circumstances around the death of her two-year-old grandson Daniel Nixon, “a sweet, sweet boy” found dead in bushes near his home on Tuesday.
FNM’S GRANT WAS IN PYRAMID SCHEME: ‘We owe no one’ says MP candidate as Sands says they were victims
THE Free National Movement’s West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election candidate Bishop Ricardo Grant and his wife Shandlene Grant participated in a pyramid scheme in 2020 where some people lost their investments and never received promised payouts.
PLP must act over living cost
As the member of Parliament for Killarney, I have heard repeatedly from constituents as to how hard it is to make ends meet due to the high cost of living. The price of food is high. Gas prices are high. The cost of electricity is sky-high.
Doctors Hospital: Blake Road revenues surge on gov’t deal
Doctors Hospital has revealed that in-patient revenues at its Blake Road facility near-quadrupled during its 2024 first quarter due to the deal to treat public healthcare patients there.
ArawakX directors stay in control of BOB battle
The Chief Justice has allowed ArawakX’s principals “to maintain conduct and control” of the legal battle with Bank of The Bahamas over the latter’s six-month freezing of all their accounts.
Aviation operators support ‘serious overhaul’ for LPIA
The Bahamas’ top aviation gateway urgently needs “a serious overhaul” of key airside and terminal infrastructure to keep pace with increased flight traffic and tourism, industry operators said yesterday.
BTC ‘cash cow not giving whole milk’
A union president will today submit “a list of concerns” to the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) over its cell tower sale after yesterday’s call with its top executive “left more questions than answers”.
Delay dividends to give bigger payout, BOB told
Bank of The Bahamas should have waited to pay a more substantial dividend than its recent one cent per share declaration after a 49.6 percent jump in profits, an investor argued yesterday.
Wendy’s PI approval ‘void’ on land use plan absence
Atlantis and other major resorts yesterday sought to overturn the approval granted to Wendy’s and Marco’s Pizza by branding it “void” due to the absence of a land use plan for Paradise Island.
Dr Perry Gomez laid to rest in official funeral
FAMILY, friends, and members of Parliament gathered at the St Agnes Anglican Church yesterday to lay to rest Dr Perry Gomez, the former minister of health remembered by the prime minister as “a man for all seasons.”
Man says he helped murder accused out of fear of him
A MAN testified that he gave Rodrigo Rolle the pickax he used to break into the safe of an elderly American woman he allegedly killed in Cat Island in 2017.
‘STAFF PANICKED AS BOAT SANK’: 75-year-old US woman dies, two passengers taken to the hospital
PASSENGERS complained that panicking staff did not know what to do and provided no directions as their double-decker boat began sinking en route to Blue Lagoon Island yesterday.
