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Sandy catches some retailers 'off-guard'

Bahamian food stores saw their normal level of hurricane business last week according to several retailers, with one telling Tribune Business the spike in demand had challenged his inventory levels.

Bimini ‘up in arms’ over RBC pull-out

Bimini businesses are “up in arms” over Royal Bank of Canada’s (RBC) decision to close the only bank branch on the island, one telling Tribune Business: “It’s going to be very hard for us”.

Minnis again calls on PM to release Baha Mar deal details

FREE National Movement Leader Dr Hubert Minnis has again demanded that Prime Minister Perry Christie release the details surrounding the deal to remobilise the beleaguered Baha Mar resort.

Five years to organise polling

Elections come and go usually every five-years so the organisers of them have the luxury of four plus plus years to get things together...all it takes is an eight-month jump forward and chaos.

Wells insists no jet ski licences issued to Baha Mar

ONE day after clarifying his ministry’s involvement in an ongoing dispute between watercraft operators and Baha Mar, Transport Minister Renward Wells was again challenged on that position in the House of Assembly by members of the opposition yesterday.

'No' vote would hit workers

A MAJORITY ‘no’ vote on referendum day would not only largely affect the thousands of persons employed in the “numbers industry” but cause an overall loss of revenue for corporations, said a web shop chief yesterday.

THIRD MARATHON BAHAMAS EVENT DRAWS THOUSANDS OF PARTICIPANTS

By RENALDO DORSETT Tribune Sports Reporter rdorsett@tribunemedia.net In its third year, the Sunshine Insurance Race Weekend, which includes Marathon Bahamas and the Susan G. Komen Bahamas Race for the Cure 5K, drew thousands of participants to the Bahama

Sustaining one heartbeat at a time

THE BAHAMAS Heart Association is reminding people all month long to thoroughly educate themselves and take proactive steps to prevent the silent killer – heart disease.

Deeply concerned about Bank of the Bahamas issue

EDITOR, The Tribune.

Costume creators promise a high-energy Carnival

IF LAST Saturday was any indication of what the 2015 Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival is going to depict, then Tribune Entertainment can say that it will be filled with bright colours, high energy and live entertainment with fun at the centre of it all.

EDITORIAL: Chapter 11 gone but Beijing fails to deliver as promised

ON FRIDAY in its Investors Services newsletter, Moody’s announced that the Bahamas’ Baa2 rating was now on review for a downgrade.

Chamber chair tells BTC: Compensate businesses

The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation's (BCCEC) chairman yesterday urged the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) to pay financial compensa

Maynard tells BTC boss: go back to Jamaica - now

Bahamas Electrical Workers Union president Paul Maynard wants BTC’s Chief Executive Officer Garry Sinclair to do one thing: to go back to Jamaica.

PM: Bill’s ‘flexibility’ to end GBPA’s energy regulation

THE Prime Minister yesterday confirmed that the Electricity Bill 2024 provides “the flexibility” to remove the Grand Bahama Port Authority’s (GBPA) ability to regulate the energy sector in Freeport.

Wall Street likely to cut the Bahamas' GDP growth

A Wall Street credit rating agency yesterday said it would likely downgrade its 2013 economic growth projections for the Bahamas, given “very subdued” economic activity and a “softer” tourism sector.

GB provides 65% of Matthew claims

Grand Bahama has accounted for almost two-thirds of the $409 million in gross Hurricane Matthew claims reported to the Bahamas Insurance Association (BIA) to-date.

BOB rights offering takes Govt further down ‘wrong road’

The Government has been pushed further down “the wrong road” on Bank of the Bahamas by the recent $40 million rights offering, an outspoken shareholder said yesterday.

Public board appointees named

THE government has finally released its list of appointments to public boards and committees, with several Free National Movement (FNM) backbenchers and former FNM members of Parliament getting top posts.The listing, which was obtained by The Tribune

Freeport web shops ‘don’t need’ licence from Gaming Board

The Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) is asking the Supreme Court to find that the Hawksbill Creek Agreement exempts Freeport-based web shops from having to obtain a Gaming Board licence.

Attempts to reclaim BTC are a monumental waste

IN 1997, the Free National Movement ran for re-election on a platform that explicitly called for the privatisation of BaTelCo - the state-owned telecoms monopoly that everyone loved to hate for its studied incompetence and arrogance.

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