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Moree to take up post on June 12

THE Cabinet Office has announced that Brian Moree, QC, will take his position as the country’s newest chief justice on June 12.

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Munnings advances to league final, Knowles returns after ruling

TRAVIS Munnings and his Portuguese club advanced to the league final while Zane Knowles and his Bulgarian club received a favourable ruling in arbitration to keep their playoff hopes alive.

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‘Scumbags’ hit Robin Hood re-opening with $30k theft

Efforts to re-open the former Robin Hood store off Tonique Williams-Darling Highway have hit a ‘major setback’, Mario’s Bowling and Entertainment Palace chief executive, Leslie Miller, telling Tribune Business yesterday that the store had suffered $30,000 in damages after thieves stole six air conditioning units last week.

PUBLIC HOSPITALS 'RUN ON JUST 17% OF BUDGET'

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net Overstaffing through the politically-related "pile on" of public service workers has left the Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) with less than 20 per cent of its annual budget availa

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Family and friends searching for missing Philip “Big Mama” Stubbs

Concerned family and friends are desperately searching for Philip “Big Mama” Stubbs, 80, who went missing after leaving his residence early this week.

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‘Down-payments cut’ as bank removes indemnity

The Central Bank of the Bahamas (CBB) has released new “relaxed” lending rules for residential mortgages.

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Woman denies guilt over falsified COVID test results

A 35-year-old woman was charged yesterday with 40 counts of possession of a forged document in connection to the recent trend of people attempting to travel using falsified COVID-19 test results.

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Poachers fined $20,000 a man

THE captain and crew of two Dominican vessels caught poaching in Bahamian waters late last week were charged in the Magistrate’s Court yesterday.

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Lewis: Farm Road residents are posing us a challenge

THE Farm Road shanty town in Abaco remains occupied, hindering clean-up efforts in that area, according to Minister of State for Disaster Preparedness, Management and Reconstruction Iram Lewis. He made the statement when updating reporters outside C

'Tourism industry won't recover until June 2021'

JAMAICA’s former tourism minister projects the tourism industry won’t recover from the COVID-19 crisis until June 2021 and will see 80 percent recovery only by winter of next year.

Costs, costs and more costs to bear

Well the Camelot celebrations are all over…$’000’s spent on hats…wonder how much Tax arrears the 1000 chosen owed the Treasury had enough to embellish themselves but.....

Taxi union chief’s fear for hundreds of drivers

Hundreds of taxicab drivers could potentially be left jobless at month’s end, the Bahamas Taxicab Union’s (BTCU) president fears, with the 80 percent holding leased plates most at risk.

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Richard Gibson leads Team Bahamas at CAGC

Team Bahamas teed off yesterday in the 2017 Caribbean Amateur Golf Championships hosted at The Links Casa de Campo Resort in the Dominican Republic.The CAGC is the region’s premier event, played both as an individual stroke play event and as a countr

Zip-line 'buccaneer' in approvals push

The Bahamian investor behind a proposed Arawak Cay ‘zip line’ attraction yesterday encouraged the Minnis administration to provide the necessary approvals for it to proceed and expand the tourism offering.

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Victory for Valley Boys

THE Valley Boys recovered from a humbling fifth place finish on Boxing Day to win their fourth consecutive New Year’s Day Junkanoo parade, according to unofficial results announced last night.

Exchange control delays $35m GB Power offering

Grand Bahama Power Company’s (GBPC) planned $35 million capital raising has been delayed again, this time by the need to obtain exchange control approval from the Central Bank of the Bahamas, Tribune Business understands.

Contractors chief to bring members 'up to scratch'

THE Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) yesterday said it was pushing for internationally-recognised certification for small/medium-sized firms, which make up 80-90 per cent of the industry.

Community Outreach Centre in need of assistance

ON NOVEMBER 25, 2012, St David’s Methodist Church in Grand Bahama honoured the longest serving local preacher within the Methodist Church in the Bahamas and in the Caribbean, Evangelist Lloyd Fuller Quant. Evangelist Quant has been serving the church for more than 80 years as a local preacher, ever since 1934.

Bahamas First in 94% first half profits jump

Bahamas First has unveiled a 94 per cent year-over-year increase in first half profits, although this was driven largely by a $4 million gain in the value of its investment holdings.

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Knights take it all

Coach Trevor Grant got a chance to celebrate another Government Secondary Schools Sports Association senior boys title.