13 August 2019
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Chairman Fred Mitchell said the government should not be “popping the champagne corks just yet” after revealing that unemployment is down. Mitchell told The Bahama Journal on Monday that statistics showing youth unemployment is still far too high and women continue to suffer in employment. “There’s a huge problem across the […]
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12 August 2019
In addition to Bahamas Power and Light’s (BPL) increased load shedding, there was a fire at the corporation’s Clifton Pier power plant on Friday. BPL Public Relations Director Quincy Parker told The Bahama Journal yesterday that the fire was extinguished and affected one of the generator units. However, Parker said the generator was returned to […]
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12 August 2019
It’s been nearly two months since the Bahamas Public Services Union (BPSU) and the government came to the table to negotiate a new industrial agreement and according to Union President Kimsley Ferguson, the union hasn’t heard anything from the government on the financial aspects of that deal. Take for instance, workers at the Princess Margret […]
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12 August 2019
For the first time, the All Bahamas Merit scholars recognized two students at the scholarship’s 25th awards ceremony at Government House on last Thursday. Mahlia Neely, a graduate of Queen’s College High School, and Dehron Smith, a graduate of Nassau Christian Academy, were awarded $140,000 to attend college abroad. Neely and Smith expressed happiness for […]
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12 August 2019
On Saturday, a private aircraft en route from Pompano Beach, Florida to Nassau, Bahamas made an emergency landing at the Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA). According to LPIA officials, the incident happened around 4:32 p.m. Two persons were onboard the Challenger 60 aircraft, one American and one Bahamian. There were no injuries reported. Immediately upon […]
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12 August 2019
Minister of Labour Dion Foulkes, Allied Workers Union negotiator Obie Ferguson and Morton Salt Company executives met last Thursday to discuss the company’s industrial agreement, but concerns over salary increase made it difficult to consent on terms of the agreement. Ferguson, who spoke to Bahama Journal about the outcome of the meeting, said the parties […]
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12 August 2019
The unemployment rate took a dive as more people are counted among the workforce, according to the Department of Statistics this past Friday. Preliminary figures indicated that 4,330 persons were working at the time the most recent labour force survey was conducted in May 2018. Senior Statistician Cynpreanna Winters said, “Two of the three most […]
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12 August 2019
As load shedding continues to intensify and Bahamians are finding it unbearable, Bahamas Power and Light CEO Whitney Heastie said the power plant cannot guarantee that load shedding will stop, as there are generators that are failing. “The challenge we have is with an ageing fleet. Last night, we had four additional units that would […]
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12 August 2019
Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) Leader Philip Davis wasted no time responding to Bahamas Power and Light’s (BPL) press conference as he believes the corporation failed Bahamians and they should be compensated for enduring the miserable load shedding crisis. “I think at the moment, we are facing a catastrophe where BPL is a failed corporation. We […]
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12 August 2019
Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) CEO Whitney Heastie admitted yesterday that while the company can improve its communication regarding load shedding, there are far more issues at hand as the company didn’t expect such high levels of load shedding this summer. “It must be noted that the board appointed in 2017 and this current board […]
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