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TWO NEW MAJOR INVESTMENTS (BILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT BOOM) GOVERNMENT SIGNS $55 M LOAN AGREEMENT FOR NORTH ELEUTHERA AIRPORT
 
BAHAMAS INVESTMENT FORUM IN WASHINGTON, DC --  Photographed above are some the participants of the first Bahamas Business and Investment Forum in Washington, DC organized by The Embassy of The Bahamas. From left to right are Senator Barry Griffin; Central Bank Governor John Rolle; Senator Quinton Lightbourn; Senator Michael Halkitis, Minister of Economic Affairs; Barbara Feinstein, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State; The  Bahamas Ambassador to the United States His Excellency Wendall Jones; The Hon. I. Chester Cooper, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism and Investments; Ambassador Chet Neymour; Consul General Washington Patrick Adderley; Consul General New York Leroy Major; and Michael Fountain, Honorary Consul Chicago.

TWO NEW MAJOR INVESTMENTS (BILLION DOLLAR INVESTMENT BOOM)

The Deputy Minister and Minister of Tourism, Investments and Aviation, I. Chester Cooper has announced that the government will execute heads of agreements this month for more than $1billion of new investments in major touristic developments. It is understood that these projects are slated for Paradise Island and Cable Beach. Mr. Cooper made the announcement […]

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GOVERNMENT SIGNS $55 M LOAN AGREEMENT FOR NORTH ELEUTHERA AIRPORT

Shenia RobertsJournal Staff Writer Prime Minister Philip Davis and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Tourism and AviationChester Cooper visited the island of Eleuthera on Monday to sign a $55 million dollar loanagreement with the Saudi Fund for Development to facilitate updates to North Eleuthera’s airportterminal.The updates to North Eleuthera International Airport have been long […]

Gov’t Fights To Protect Financial Sector

13 March 2019

The EU’s dreaded blacklist has been released and as hoped or anticipated by senior government officials, The Bahamas has not been named. Confirming  this to reporters yesterday morning  Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Peter Turnquest  said this validates the hard work put in to improve the country’s financial sector, but by the same […]

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EU Still Evaluating Bahamas

13 March 2019

Despite arguments advanced by the Attorney General, Carl Bethel, Sven Giegold, a German Member of the European Parliament, with responsibility for money laundering, is not backing down from his position made, almost two weeks ago, that The Bahamas must do more to address money laundering. Mr. Giegold went as far as to demand that The […]

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THREE CHILDREN ABDUCTED IN A WEEK

08 March 2019

Police are on the hunt of the alleged abductor of the capital’s second and third alleged kidnapping in less than a week. In the first incident, authorities indicated that a child was taken from a park on Emmanuel Dive off Soldier Road before 7:00pm on Wednesday. It is said that a female, who was the […]

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WHO ARE WE?

08 March 2019

In the book The Growth of the Modern West Indies, the author  Gordon K. Lewis wrote: “ From the earliest beginnings after 1620,  the Bahamian development  departed radically from those of the islands properly West Indian. The productive system, after a false start in tobacco growing, was essentially mercantile. The genesis of the New Providence […]

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Bishop Calls Policemen Retirement “ Suspicious”

08 March 2019

The Bahamas Christian Council President BishopDelton Fernander is calling  the retirements of  senior Police Officers suspicious. He was responding to claims from the Opposition that the instructions to retire the three  men  were sent down from The Office of The Prime Minister. National Security Minister Marvin Dames said there’s nothing political about it. Bishop Fernander […]

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Fusion Will Succeed, Says Richards

08 March 2019

Fusion Superplex Chief  Operating  Officer Dominic Richards is dismissing  claims that the entertainment centre is too big of a dream and that the project will not succeed. Mr. Richards said he can’t convince people who don’t understand the business model. He added that he doesn’t think Galleria Cinema isn’t competition, but they just aren’t any […]

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AG CORRECTS EU MINISTER

08 March 2019

Attorney General Carl Bethel defending the government of the Bahamas says that money laundering convictions were made in The Bahamas . He has corrected comments made by European Union Member of Parliament (MEP) Sven Giegold. “It is clear that the commentator was utterly ignorant of not only the changes we’ve made, but also of the […]

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Illegals Fined Nearly $20,000 In Grand Bahama

07 March 2019

Nearly $20,000 in fines for 15 foreign nationals convicted in a Grand Bahama Magistrates Court on Tuesday. The group consisted of 12 Haitians, two Chinese and one Colombian, who all appeared before Magistrate Rengin Johnson to answer charges of either illegal entry, illegal embarkation or overstaying.  Delise Gedilis, Anne Edith Taris, Rose Widney Fils-Aime, Venant […]

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RIGHTS BAHAMAS URGES GOV’T TO SPEED UP LAW ENFORCEMENT INITIATIVES


07 March 2019

Rights Bahamas Vice Chairman Joseph Darville yesterday urged the government to move swiftly to enforce Marco’s Law, deploy Marco’s Alert, and create a Sex Offenders Register.  In a statement issued last evening, Mr. Darville suggested that the government take precautions ensuring that the rights of accused individuals are protected. This means that they remain innocent […]

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Prison Fellowship Goes Beyond Prison Walls

07 March 2019

The Prison Fellowship Bahamas (PFB) is known for its Christian interaction with prison inmates at The Bahamas Department of Corrections (BDOC). But what does the fellowship do outside of the  four walls of the prison? President of the Fellowship, Rev. Anthony Sands, said yesterday in an interview with this Journal, that the ministry goes beyond […]

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