Archive | November, 2013

Commonwealth Bank Reports 35% Profit Increase

Executives of Commonwealth Bank reported a 35 per cent increase in profits its third quarter but Executive Chairman of the bank William Sands says the bank is still “cautiously optimistic” due to the country’s fragile economy. “While we are cautiously optimistic about the remainder of 2013, the bank is closely monitoring pending changes in the […]

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APD Complex To Be Completed in February

The administrative complex for the Arawak Cay Port Development (APD) is on schedule and nearing completion, according to APD President and CEO, Mike Maura Jr. Mr. Maura took government officials, as well as other stakeholders and members of the press on a tour of the new complex yesterday. “Time is money and presently the old […]

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Teachers’ Work to Rule Continues

The Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) is not easing up their industrial action on the government as they are continuing with their work-to-rule action. BUT President said yesterday said that due to Education Minister Jerome Fitzgerald’s refusal to grant the union’s wishes or even consider them they will continue their industrial action. “Bahamas Union of […]

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Small Home Repair Programme Launched

Close to 300 carpenters, masonries, artisans and contractors will get the opportunity to participate in what officials are calling the “most significant and substantial home repair programme in the history of The Bahamas.” Officials of Urban Renewal 2.0 launched the government’s multi-million dollar small home repair programme yesterday at St. Agnes Anglican Church. The government […]

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Reports Of CHOGM Boycott Untrue, Says Mitchell

Foreign Affairs Minister Fred Mitchell dismissed reports yesterday that several countries were boycotting this year’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings (CHOGM) in Sri Lanka in protest of the country’s alleged human rights abuses. Mr. Mitchell is a part of The Bahamas’ delegation attending those meetings. Prime Minister Perry Christie arrived in Sri Lanka yesterday – […]

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Police Stabbing

Policeman Arrested For Stabbings

Exactly a week after a mother and her teen daughter were allegedly murdered by the mother’s boyfriend and just two days after Crisis Centre officials revealed that more than 1,200 women are abused annually, another mother and her child are the latest reported victims of a violent crime, this after a stabbing incident last night […]

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Man Charged With Murder

Twenty-six-year-old Churchill Subdivision, Chippingham resident Richardo Brown was on Thursday arraigned in a magistrate’s court for the murder of 21-year-old Timothy Rolle last Friday. Police said Rolle, a resident of Rock Crusher, was found with a single gunshot wound to the head after 11:15 that night. The victim’s family said at the time that the […]

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GCM Feeds Hundreds

Thanksgiving came two weeks early for the hundreds of people who walked into Great Commission Ministries (GMC) yesterday for a hot and hearty meal. GCM Director Bishop Walter Hanchell said in recent years, an increasing number of people have reached out for assistance following the downturn in the local economy. “There are a lot hurting […]

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Gov’t’s Crime Fighting Plan Is Working, AG Assures

The compendium of crime bills being debated in Parliament along with other policies enacting by the Christie administration to aid in the fight against crime are effective, the attorney general said yesterday. Allyson Maynard-Gibson said the government’s amendments to the Penal Code as it relates to organised crime and gangs will be of particularly crucial […]

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PLP Celebrates 60 Years

A former parliamentarian is urging Bahamians to take note of their history. Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman, Bradley Roberts said as much during a press conference yesterday highlighting the governing party’s 60th anniversary, making it the oldest political party in The Bahamas. The PLP blazed trails back in November 1953 and over the past decades […]

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