28 March 2019
Lucayan Renewal Holdings Limited yesterday signed a Letter of Intent with Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. (RCL) and the ITM group to begin exclusive negotiations for the purchase of the Grand Lucayan resort at a price of $65 million, and the redevelopment of the Freeport Harbour. In a release from Lucayan Renewal Holdings Ltd, the firm […]
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28 March 2019
More details coming to light about Tuesday’s after school brawl that left a 9th grader dead and two other teen boys in the hands of the police. Based on information police turned over to Education Minister Jeffrey Lloyd, 15-year-old TA Thompson student Pierre Louis of Wilson Track was walking home in the Pitt Road area […]
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28 March 2019
The government yesterday pushed ahead with changes to the Road Traffic Act. Those changes include stiffer penalties for drivers using communication devices while driving and for those caught without their licenses. Leading off the debate in the House of Assembly, Transport Minister Renward Wells said, “ these changes include requiring the immediate production of a […]
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28 March 2019
Lacey Huyler is a student of St. Anne’s Primary School. Her mom became aware that she had epilepsy when she was only four years old. She said she has seizures and many times she does not remember what happens after she has one. It’s hard to have happy sometimes, but she knows that her family […]
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28 March 2019
A red letter day in health-care yesterday as the public health system became the first in the region to introduce the ZOLL X (10) Series Cardiac Monitor and ZOLL Auto Pulse. The emergency medical technology which comes with a price tag of almost four hundred thousand dollars ($400,000.00) is expected to significantly improve the delivery […]
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28 March 2019
The Director of Education, Marcellus Taylor says “as a society on the whole, we often take our teachers for granted. Addressing a Press Conference for the Teacher of the Year Awards yesterday at the Church of God of Prophecy on East Street, Mr Taylor said, “ we rarely consider how fortune we are that God […]
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28 March 2019
Englerston Member of Parliament Glenys Hanna Martin yesterday in the House of Assembly expressed her disappointment in the Minnis Administration’s Road Traffic Bill, saying “ the government has yet to advance either what they met in place or anything at all over the last two years.” She said, “ the question that has to be […]
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27 March 2019
A counter proposal has been prepared by the Ministry of Education for The Bahamas Union of Teachers and is being submitted to the union’s leadership. According to Education Minister Jeff Lloyd formal negotiations on the union’s new industrial agreement is set to begin within days. “I have had conversations with the President, the Deputy Prime […]
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27 March 2019
The Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) released a statement yesterday disputing the suggestion by Bahamas Nurses’ Union President, Amancha Williams, who claimed last week that negotiations between the Nurses’ Union and the government had reached an impasse. The PHA in turn standing firm in its position, adding that it is open to re-engage the union in […]
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27 March 2019
Health Minister, Dr. Duane Sands confirmed yesterday that after screening more than 200 persons in the public schools, there is no evidence of anyone else with active tuberculosis. Following an outbreak of tuberculosis in a junior and senior school in New Providence last week that raised alarm, President of the Bahamas Union of Teachers (BUT) […]
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