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Failed broker: $9.7m hangs in the balance
A successful winding-up of Owen Bethel’s Montaque Capital Partners is dependent on recovering $5.35 million owed by the insolvent Bahamian broker/dealer’s clients and affiliates, plus the fate of $4.3 million being claimed by a Canadian provider.
Doctor raises concerns over landfill fires
A LOCAL doctor has expressed concern over recurrent fires at the New Providence landfill and the health problems subsequent smoke can have on area residents.
Climate change exacerbates Bahamas’ major challenges
CLIMATE change is exacerbating the Bahamas’ challenges with food security, water scarcity and energy security, the Prime Minister said yesterday, over an issue that threatens this nation’s land mass.
Halkitis: We'll meet targets - and beat them
A cabinet minister said that the government will “achieve” and “surpass” the budget targets in terms of the deficit with a goal to get the debt to GDP down to 50 percent by 2031.
PM: Digital asset ambitions to rebuild financial services
The Prime Minister yesterday said The Bahamas’ ambitions to become a digital assets hub will help it recover financial services activity that has been lost to the “global assault” on international financial centres (IFCs).
Fisheries exports enjoy 19% value increase in 2020
Bahamian fisheries generated a 19 percent increase in the value of its export earnings in 2020 despite a reduction in the volume of domestic landings, a Cabinet minister disclosed yesterday.
How Rajiv is making the best of it in Canada
RAJIV Williams, a first year student studying in Canada, is among the scores of Bahamian students unable to return home amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Reef can survive in warmer seas
NEW research has shown that a coral reef in Abaco can survive in extreme warming ocean temperatures caused by climate change.
Dorian blows away 2,500 tourism jobs
Some 2,500 tourism jobs, which supported more than 10,000 family members, were blown away by Hurricane Dorian it was revealed yesterday.The category five storm’s impact on employment levels in The Bahamas’ largest private sector industry was exposed
Eric Wiberg – New Providence: 60 land accidents
WHETHER planes touched wingtips, men walked into propellers, bombers collided, planes were lost in microbursts, or had training gunnery mishaps, Nassau, Windsor and Oakes air fields and adjacent waters claimed many lives. More than half of all accidents in the colony – 80 of 150 – took place at or near the air fields and New Providence. This article deals with the 55 accidents that happened or ended up on land. In the three years from January 1943 131 aviators and a Bahamian family of three were killed by military aircraft in New Providence and its waters, with 83 rescued, and those fatalities recovered buried on Farrington Road. Pre-existing Oakes Field, used for training, saw nine crashes and most of the 25 unallocated, and Windsor Field, still in use, had 21.
$5m deal signed to improve water supply in Long Island
A $5m contract was signed yesterday between the Water and Sewerage Corporation and BHM Company Limited to bring potable water to hundreds of residentes in Long Island. Settlements such as Salt Pond have “suffered for far too long without a reliable p
PM reveals details on housing scheme
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis revealed that a planned housing programme geared towards young professionals will include certain exemptions such as waived customs duty on building materials and appliances and real property tax exemption for up to two years after the homes have been constructed.
Demetrius Ferguson headlines for the X-Men
ED Reed is that kind of play-making defensive back that has a knack for highlight reel plays and finding the end-zone. Demetrius Ferguson is developing a similar reputation.
Buddy scores 24, helps Kings beat slumping 76ers 101-95
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Zach Randolph and Vince Carter have been playing for so long that some of their teammates were toddlers when they broke into the NBA.
Atlantis booking paceup 7% on 2011 figures
The Atlantis resort’s booking pace was 7 per cent ahead of 2011 comparatives for August, its operator telling Tribune Business it was confident that 2013 group business would “match, if not exceed” this year’s levels.
PHA: Expansion of salaries and benefits 'not sustainable at this time'
THE Public Hospitals Authority has disclosed that the expansion of salaries and benefits of medical personnel is “simply not sustainable at this time”, in the wake of last week’s demonstrations by healthcare unions over such outstanding issues.
Another murder pushes 2019 total up to 88
Police were last night on the scene of a homicide in Excellence Estates off Golden Isles Road where an adult male was confirmed dead. This killing brought the murder count for the year up to 88. An increase on last year when, as of October 21, 2018, The Tribune’s records show there were 71 murders up until that point.
EDITORIAL: Evidence there to check the facts
EVIDENCE is a powerful thing.
EDITORIAL: Melia shutdown is a disaster for its staff
The news about the Melia Nassau Beach Resort could hardly be worse – it will close down for two years.
Meditation – The sea
THINK of the uncontrollable power of a storm. Harvey is certainly making his presence felt in parts of Texas. In the face of such force we are reminded to be humble no matter how important we seem to be. Tragic loss of life is a sobering reminder of the many who have found themselves going to a watery grave.
