24 January 2019
Police in New Providence are seeking the public’s assistance in identifying and locating the persons responsible for a shooting incident yesterday which left an adult female with injuries. According to reports, shortly before 11:00am, a woman was sitting in a vehicle on Gray’s Terrace off Bernard Road, when the occupants of a silver Honda Accord […]
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24 January 2019
Minister of Housing, Ramould Ferreira yesterday announced a shift in the government’s housing policy. For the first time, homeowners will be able to construct a spilt level single family home in a government subdivision. The affordable housing initiative also now calls for homeowners to be energy efficient. “As a result, each homeowner is expected to […]
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24 January 2019
An audit into the Education Loan Authority, found that in June 2017, the authority’s loans receivable, net provision of $16,336,710 amounted to $60,507,578 of which $51,384,289 was over 90 days in arrears. The report revealed that the authority was unable to obtain the necessary historical default rates in its loans receivable portfolio. It also found that […]
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24 January 2019
The Free National Movement Member of Parliament for Centreville, Reece Chipman yesterday served notice in the House of Assembly of his decision to resign as a member of the powerful Public Accounts Committee. In a letter to the Speaker of the House of Assembly Mr. Chipman said, “In light of the absence of a House […]
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23 January 2019
Bahamas Gaming Operators Association (BGOA) Chief Executive Officer, Gershan Major, told Rotarians yesterday of efforts to ensure that there is a safety net in place to protect those most vulnerable engaging in gaming. “We have today, over 200 persons on a self-exclusion list,” he said. “Those individuals are some of who excluded themselves, some of […]
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23 January 2019
Bahamas Hotel and Managerial Union and the management of the Grand Lucayan Resort, Lucayan Renewal Holdings Ltd., are still meeting and talking things over when it comes to Voluntary Separation Packages (VSEP’s) for the line staff at the resort in Grand Bahama. Minister of Labour, Senator Dion Foulkes, confirmed with reporters just before the weekly […]
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23 January 2019
Tourism Minister Dionsio D’Aguilar says, “ since the coming to office of the Free National Movement government in May 2017, some 10,000 jobs have been created. He said the Tourism sector saw an upswing in employment between May and November 2018. Referring to the Labour report released on Monday, Mr. D’Aguilar said, “ most […]
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23 January 2019
People are talking, that’s the one thing that has come out of the fiasco called The Fyre Festival – a high end luxury concert set for the Exumas in Spring 2017 that failed miserably, according to Minister of Tourism Dioniso D’Aguilar. Speaking with reporters outside Tuesday’s weekly cabinet meeting, he said yes, the situation […]
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23 January 2019
The Nassau Airport Developement Company’s (NAD) is moving ahead with plans for and on-site hotel at the Lynden Pindling International Airport. NAD has issued a request for proposals outlining submission guidelines to prospective proponents. According to NAD, the successful proponent will design, finance, construct and operate a three star or more hotel that should meet […]
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22 January 2019
Former Cabinet Minister Fred Mitchell says the latest labour statistics are “indicative of the fact that unemployment in the Bahamas is worse”. Things, he said, are moving in the wrong direction, and this despite the signs and warnings the government continues to double down in what he called its “depressing menu of stop, review, cancel […]
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