01 August 2019
Stiffer penalties for those found breaking the fisheries law and according to Minister of Agriculture and Marine Resources Michael Pintard, that may come as soon as the end of the year. Mr. Pintard, during the declaration of the opening of the crawfish season, said that the plan is to bring a proposed schedule of penalties […]
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31 July 2019
Nygard’s Golden Jubilee Review It’s not an everyday occurrence to discover an individual who has pulled himself up by his bootstraps to achieve phenomenal success with a business that’s still breaking barriers, still achieving firsts, and still innovating fifty years later. What does it take? How did he achieve it all? And how can we […]
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31 July 2019
Minister of Foreign Affairs Darren Henfield confirmed on Monday that the government will support the Haitian Commission of Inquiry into the alleged corruption at the Haitian embassy. Henfield was informed by Haiti that a team of three is expected to carry out the probe. “On Friday past, I received a phone call from the Haitian […]
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31 July 2019
Although the Stop Disney online petition garnered more than 33,000 signatures, Minister of Tourism Dionisio D’Aguilar said the government has made its decision concerning Disney’s development of a cruise port at Lighthouse Point. Minister D’Aguilar minced no words when he stressed that Disney’s multi-million dollar South Eleuthera project at Lighthouse Point will be pushed ahead. […]
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31 July 2019
Progressive Liberal Party Chairman Fred Mitchell denied claims on Tuesday of an internal conflict within the PLP. In a local daily, former Tall Pines Member of Parliament Leslie Miller accused Mitchell of not looking out for his colleagues who want to run again in the 2022 general election. The chairman said all members are on […]
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31 July 2019
Progressive Liberal Party Leader Philip Davis warned Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis that the vote of no confidence “hangs over his head like the sword of Damocles”. In his response to the prime minister’s encouragement to the PLP to bring on the vote of no confidence, Davis said yesterday that the opposition will move the […]
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31 July 2019
Prime Minister Dr. Hubert Minnis is confident that the drama surrounding the deal to rent the Town Centre Mall to house the General Post Office will not affect his party being reelected. When pressed on the issue yesterday the prime minister assertively said “no”. “The people realize that everything was done in a transparent manner […]
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31 July 2019
Cabinet ministers yesterday toured four of nine schools that are undergoing extensive renovations, which according to Minister of Education Jeffrey Lloyd, come at a cost of approximately $9 million. The money for the work, he added, is available. “The resources are now being distributed as necessary and what we mean by resources is money of […]
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30 July 2019
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man who was found dead on Sunday. According to police, shortly before 5 p.m., they responded to Sea Breeze Drive, off Beatrice Avenue, Sea Breeze Estate, where a man was found unresponsive, with an injury to the head. Paramedics were called to the scene and […]
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30 July 2019
Police are investigating a stabbing incident which left a woman with injuries. According to police, shortly after 1 a.m. on Monday, a woman was in the parking lot of a bar on Rosedale Street, when she got into an altercation with another woman, which escalated, resulting in her being stabbed about the body. The injured […]
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