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Jonquel Jones and Sun advance to WNBA Finals
Jonquel Jones made local basketball history once again and became the first Bahamian player to advance to the WNBA Finals. Jones and the Connecticut Sun closed out the Los Angeles Sparks with a 78-56 win last night in Long Beach, California. With t
Stingers and Giants remain undefeated in the NPBA
BOTH the PJ Stingers and the Commonwealth Bank Giants remained undefeated in the New Providence Basketball Association after pulling off the double header victories on Saturday night.At the AF Adderley Gymnasium in the men’s division one play, the St
Wreckers, Cybots win double header
THE New Providence Basketball Association continued its regular season action on Tuesday night at the AF Adderley Gymnasium with the Y-Care Wreckers and the Mail Boat Cybots winning the double header.
Realtor: 'Tale of two markets' means 90% of buyers high-end
A well-known realtor yesterday said his reliance on luxury international purchasers has grown to 80-90 per cent of his sales, telling Tribune Business: “It’s almost like the Bahamian buyer has disappeared.”
Broker 'optimistic' doctors' captive issues resolved
Broker 'optimistic' doctors' captive issues resolved By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor A Bahamas-based insurance executive is "optimistic" that differences with the regulator over a captive insurer providing coverage to 70-80 Bahamian physicians
PETER YOUNG: We can’t be held hostage to fear, waiting for a cure while the economy dies
If you mention The Bahamas to people in Britain, there is likely to be a positive reaction because the country is seen as a most desirable tourist destination. Such is the country’s fine reputation, it is no exaggeration to say the name itself seems to carry a certain aura. Last week, however, it hit the headlines for the wrong reasons.
Chamber offer ‘much easier’ than Inland Revenue’s ‘3 at once’
The Inland Revenue offer to simplify the Tax Compliance Certificate (TCC) process by issuing ‘three at once’ would be “much easier” if just one was made valid for a 90-day period, the Chamber of Commerce’s chief executive said yesterday.
Florida ferry captures 50% of Big Game guests
THE Bimini Big Game Resort & Marina has been reaping the benefits of ferry service from Florida, its general manager yesterday crediting this with producing “50 per cent or more” of its weekend occupancies.
Rockets, Pros win in NPBA double header
THE New Providence Basketball Association’s season got in full swing with its first double header of the season at the AF Adderley Gymnasium on Monday night.
Comets win title
The 30th Father Marcian Peters tournament featured a resurgence for Bahamas Association of Independent Secondary Schools (BAISS) teams as they claimed three of the five contested divisions.
McCartney off to good start in Stampeders' 44-32 victory
KARL McCartney opened the Canadian Football League season where he left last year, as a special teams ace for the Calgary Stampeders.
Bahamasair in 34% loss slash
Despite slashing losses by almost 34 per cent for its 2014 financial year, Bahamasair’s best-performing international route is set to take a major hit from the new US opening with Cuba.
Bahamas crushes Nicaragua 116-62
MITCH Johnson had a monster game on Friday at the Jose Miguel Agrelot Coloseum in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico to get the Bahamas men's national basketball team back on track, but it came a little too late to get through to the playoffs of the CentroBasket Championships.
Cut public sector? Actually we hired 2,400
THE Minnis administration, which came to power promising to right-size the civil service after the Christie administration hired scores of people, has made at least 2,402 people permanent members of the civil service and has promoted more than 1,600 people throughout government since taking office.
Social security reforms touched 27% of targets
Social security reforms achieved “none of their planned outcomes”, with just 27 percent of targeted Bahamian households receiving cash grants under an IDB-financed initiative.The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in an evaluation report on its B
NPSA regular season action in high gear
THE Chances Mighty Mitts and the University of the Bahamas Mingoes took advantage of their hapless opponents, Renegades and Strikers, as the New Providence Softball Association continued its regular season action. On Saturday night at the Baillou Hi
Scotiabank: $80m mortgages restructured in 18 months
Scotiabank (Bahamas) yesterday disclosed it had managed to restructure more than $80 million worth of mortgages, held by over 500 customers, within the last 18 months, telling Tribune Business just 5-6 per cent of that number had fallen back into delinquency.
Jones ‘Player of the Week’
For the 10th time in her five-year career, Grand Bahamian Jonquel Jones has been one of the Women’s National Basketball Association’s Players of the Week.
Tourism: 14% gap ‘very impressive’
Tourism is “in the best possible position it could be” given COVID-19 uncertainties with July’s stopover visitors just 14 percent down on pre-pandemic comparisons, a Cabinet minister revealed yesterday.
Teachers join VAT opposition
The BAHAMAS Union of Teachers’ (BUT) president said yesterday that its 4,000 members were adding their voices in opposition to the “regressive” Value-Added Tax (VAT), as there was still a “great deal of uncertainty” as to how the profession would be impacted.
