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Deep Water Cay showcases nation

The Deep Water Cay (DWC) resort has helped to showcase the Bahamas to the world after being featured on Fox Sun Sports Network last weekend via ScubaNation, reaching five million households.

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National Training Agency cohort

The National Training Agency launched its first cohort for 2024 in New Providence.

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Training agency launches first cohort of year

THE National Training Agency launched its first cohort for 2024 in New Providence.

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BEC workers protest firing

Around 50 BEC workers are demonstrating outside of the company's headquarters on Baillou Hill Road.

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UBS client adviser passes the Series 7

A UBS (Bahamas) client advisor assistant, Patricia Ribeiro, has passed the Series 7 exam in the US after studying with the Nassau-based Securities Training Institute (STI).

$8m project’s closure would be ‘felt throughout tourism’

“Delirious” environmentalists were celebrating yesterday after the Government’s bid to reinstate its Blackbeard’s Cay appeal was rejected, despite warnings this would threaten an $8 million project and job losses “felt throughout the tourist industry in Nassau”.

Jobless rise ‘warning signal’ to the Gov’t

An outspoken businessman believes November’s increased unemployment figures are proof the Government’s economic policies are not working, as he asked: “Who wants to open a business in the Bahamas now?”

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Education reform still a 'critical endeavour'

In a rapidly evolving world where information is readily accessible, the ability to think critically has become an indispensable skill.

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Work permit fast-track Act no ‘Bahamianisation dismantling’

The Opposition’s leader yesterday launched an impassioned defence of the fast-track work permit process introduced by the Minnis administration, and asserted: “This was not a dismantling of Bahamianisation.”

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Hayward backs bid to ‘reimagine’ GBPA

A Hayward family member yesterday pledged “an ambitious masterplan for change” to create “thousand of jobs” in Freeport as he backed efforts “to reimagine and revolutionise” the Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA).

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Osborne: I have been without a job since minister’s allegations

DARNELL Osborne says she has not found suitable employment and has been “without a job and benefits” since former Works Minister Desmond Bannister made damning allegations about her in 2018.

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Taking a chance to grow ideas

“KEYRON, why would you leave your good position and secure job to go work for a non-profit on a family island? You realise they get their money from donations, right!?”

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Bahamas can take $5-$10bn premium 'captive' with focus

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamas could attract between $5-$10 billion in premium income within five years if it made a concerted effort to re-establish itself as a captive insura

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200 jobs through Ocean Club’s $400m expansion

The Ocean Club’s upcoming $400m expansion will create 200 full-time jobs once the development is fully completed in 2027, the project’s partners have revealed.

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UPDATED: Manslaughter verdict for killing of banker

Convicted of manslaughter by provocation

LAMAR Albury cursed in the Supreme Court yesterday within moments of a jury returning a 10-2 guilty verdict for manslaughter by provocation concerning the 33 stab wounds he inflicted on a banker he claimed had made a sexual pass at him.

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‘Step up to the plate and get the jab done’: Top tourism executive warns jobs, economy on line

Bahamians are endangering their jobs, incomes and families through resistance to taking the COVID-19 vaccine, a senior tourism official warned yesterday in urging: “Step up to the plate and get it done.”

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Bahamas basketball Olympic qualifying: ‘Buddy’ has high hopes

AS Bahamian basketball increases in global notoriety, Chavano “Buddy” Hield said he has high hopes for the country’s senior men’s national team programme to reach the pinnacle of the sport and achieve Olympic qualification.

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‘Agreements finalised’ on heritage sites deal

The Bahamian investor group aiming to transform Nassau’s key historic sites was yesterday said by senior officials to have “finalised all agreements” and is now moving to take over their management.

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Help Timiesha get back to school!

Student overcomes multiple hardships striving for a better life

All of the money Timiesha Knowles made and diligently savedfrom workingmultiple jobs just so she could fund her tertiary education has been sacrificed to keep her mother and family afloat, who were devastated by Hurricane Dorian and have now been left facing financial strains due the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight-month VAT transition is 'best thing for builders'

The Bahamian Contractors Association’s (BCA) president yesterday hailed the eight-month VAT ‘transition’ for existing projects as “the best thing the Government can do for construction”.Leonard Sands told Tribune Business that the Minnis administrati