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Death toll soars by 27 as Grand Bahama cases confirmed

MORE than 3,200 COVID-19 cases were recorded in August as a surge in new infections continues to plague the country.

SPORTS NOTES

THE funeral service for the late Roosevelt ‘Mr Starter’ Thompson, is scheduled for 11am Friday, February 10 at the New Covenant Baptist Church on the East-West Highway.His body will be interred in Woodlawn Gardens.

Munnings has game high 26, career high 20 rebounds

AN historic night for Travis Munnings highlighted the weekend for Bahamian players in NCAA Division I basketball.Munnings posted a monster stat line with a game high 26 points and a career high 20 rebounds in his ULM Warhawks’ 66-64 win over Georgia

Sebastian Gray: 'I am one of the leaders of the team'

ENTERING his sophomore season at the JuCo level, Sebastian Gray is expected to take on a greater leadership role with his Northern Oklahoma-Enid Jets men’s basketball programme.Gray is one of just five sophomores and is the second leading scorer of a

WE WON’T PAY: University rejects lecturers’ 11th hour $3,500 wage claim

THE Union of Tertiary Educators of The Bahamas is demanding a lump sum payout of $3,500 and a salary increase of seven percent for all of its faculty members - a new proposal the University of The Bahamas said yesterday it was not prepared to fulfil.

GB resort to give 18,000 'Memories'

Grand Bahama’s new four-star Memories Resort has more than 18,000 bookings “already in hand” to ensure an 80 per cent average occupancy level this winter, Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday, adding that Bahamasair will in May start a wet lease arrangement with its owners for service from up to eight US cities.

PM: 20% hotel vacancy cut to hit jobless goal

The prime minister yesterday argued his six percent unemployment rate goal can be achieved by increasing average occupancy rates at existing Bahamian hotels by 20 percentage points. Dr Hubert Minnis, telling the House of Assembly that his ambitious

Ex-Parks chairman blasts PM’s ‘unfounded’ claims

The Bahamas Public Parks and Beaches Authority’s former executive chairman last night said he “resents” accusations levied against him by the Prime Minister and branded them “unfounded”.

Safe haven for cancer patients hailed as a ‘godsend’

“A godsend” is what Francis Friends calls the assistance of the Cancer Society of the Bahamas, whom she credits with making her husband’s treatment and recovery process as comfortable as possible.

Briland rebound beats projection ‘by over 25-30%’

Harbour Island resort operators yesterday said the post-COVID tourism rebound has exceeded expectations by 25-30 percent, and added: “We’re still rocking and rolling.”

Near-total insurance absence 'critical issue'

The deputy prime minister said the near-total absence of hurricane insurance was a “critical issue” after it emerged that Dorian-ravaged communities in Grand Bahama were virtually uninsured. K Peter Turnquest said The Bahamas needs to develop ways t

Bahamas has ‘best VAT in the world’

A leading food retailer said the Government eliminated the Value-Added Tax (VAT) “nightmare” by drastically reducing the proposed exemptions, adding: “We have the best VAT in the world.”

Stopover visitors off 100,000 for January

The Bahamas saw January visitor arrivals fall by more than 100,000 or 84 percent, a Cabinet minister disclosed yesterday, with COVID travel protocols set to remain until vaccination levels hit 80 percent.

Hotels eye 5-7% peak winter rate increases

A leading Bahamian hotelier yesterday said resorts were looking at a 5-7 per cent year-over-year room rate increase for the peak 2013 Winter season, adding that it was “premature to ring the Doomsday Bell” over the so-called US ‘fiscal cliff’.

5% rise in food assistance to help offset 7.5% rate of VAT

PERSONS receiving food assistance from the Department of Social Services should soon see an increase of as much as five per cent in benefits to offset the introduction of value added tax, Social Services Minister Melanie Griffin said.

Sports in brief

THE Junior Baseball League of Nassau is slated to host its first US Embassy/JBLN/MLB Baseball Skills Clinic October 30 to November 2 at the St Andrew’s Field of Dreams.

GB Power: 80% of Freeport grid survives Dorian

Grand Bahama Power Company’s (GBPC) chief executive said the restoration of customer supply would begin yesterday evening after 80 percent of its Freeport grid infrastructure survived Hurricane Dorian. Dave McGregor, the utility’s chief executive, c

Statements retraction

In a recent letter that I had written and that was published by The Freeport News, I had wrongly stated that the Grand Bahama Port Authority Limited (GBPA) owned 20 per cent of the Grand Bahama Power Company (GBPC); and that the Canadian corporation Emera Inc owned 80 per cent. Actually, Emera owns 80.4 per cent of the local power company, according to the local power company's website.

Baha Mar: Chapter 11 end undermines ‘commercial viability’

A Baha Mar director yesterday warned that the termination of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection had undermined the $3.5 billion project’s “commercial viability”.

Disney urged not to kill Eleuthera 'golden goose'

One Eleuthera Foundation (OEF) CEO Shaun Ingraham characterised Disney’s proposal for Lighthouse Point as “killing the golden goose” as he defended the non-governmental organisation’s proposal for “responsible development”. Mr Ingraham insisted the “

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