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Lucaya tenant: Too late for me, I’m off to T&C
The Government’s planned Grand Lucayan intervention has come too late for one Port Lucaya Marketplace tenant, who will close his store on Saturday and move to the Turks & Caicos Islands.
BAHAMAS OUT OF STEP ON 'INFORMATION AGE'
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The Bahamas must retool its economy and workforce to offer an expanded services menu including software development and retirement homes, the Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation's (BCCEC) chairman sugg
YOUR SAY: Equal opportunities for all in the Bahamas
By HUBERT A MINNIS
Bimini councillor hits out at environment group
A TOP Bimini local government official blasted the Bimini Blue Coalition yesterday for what he says are their attempts to prevent unprecedented economic benefits from coming to Bimini.
‘PLP will lose election if NHI is not in place’
IF the government does not follow through with its promise to implement National Health Insurance, the Progressive Liberal Party could find itself defeated at the 2017 general election polls, conceded Tall Pines MP Leslie Miller yesterday.
Resort lay-offs raise query over $110m expansion
The Opposition’s deputy leader yesterday questioned why the Government kept touting a purported $110 million expansion at the Deep Water Cay resort when it had just terminated nine staff.
Long Island relief effort helps 95% of students get back to school
NINETY-five per cent of students of Long Island will be back in school by Wednesday largely due to an outpouring of support from its own communities and concerned individuals in Nassau, a senior education official told The Tribune yesterday.
Hield the hero at the last
CHAVANO “Buddy” Hield has had some big games in his four years with the Oklahoma Sooners but one of the most memorable came on Monday night, when he canned a three-pointer with 1.3 seconds remaining to help secure a 63-60 victory over the Texas Longhorns.
INSIGHT: Roberts barks, but now there’s no bite
It was interesting - but not surprising - to see Bradley Roberts, the chairman of the Progressive Liberal Party, attacking the media last week.
Police ‘targeted my husband’ since his pardon by Cuba
THE wife of a Bahamian recently pardoned from his prison sentence in Cuba and deported back to Nassau has alleged that police officers have targeted him since his return, even arresting him during the holidays for what she thinks are baseless reasons.
‘First round of redundancies next week’
AROUND 140 people at the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) will be made redundant next week, when the corporation begins their “callous,” “first round” of downsizing, according to Bahamas Communications and Public Officers Union (BCPOU) Secretary General Dino Rolle.
Auto repairers claim dealers ‘wrecking us’
Bahamian auto repairers yesterday blasted new car dealers for successfully lobbying the Government to ban ‘wrecked’ vehicle imports, alleging that this would jeopardise 4,500 jobs and “push the small man out of business”.
THE ART OF GRAPHIX: The clearest method of picture resolution
Resolution is the number of pixels (individual points of colour) contained on a computer display monitor. Sharpness of the image on a display depends on the resolution and the size of the monitor.
IAN FERGUSON: The difference between adding value or disgrace
Most employers have encountered employees they dread seeing duplicated in the workplace. These individuals typically have a track record of low productivity, making mischief at work or adversely affecting the company’s bottom line.
Injured container port worker hits out at 'unfair treatment'
HARRISON Moultrie, a former Freeport Container Port worker who was seriously injured on the job in a 2010 tornado, has criticised the company over alleged “unfair treatment” to him and other workers.
Union: BEC bidders eyed 50% staff cuts
Several bidders envisaged slashing the Bahamas Electricity Corporation’s (BEC) workforce by 50 per cent, with its management union yesterday voicing fears that up to seven executives might be axed.
$650m waste plant makes ‘headway’
The firm at the centre of the Renward Wells Letter of Intent (LoI) controversy yesterday said it had made “significant headway” in its efforts to ultimately develop a waste-to-energy plant at the New Providence landfill.
All hail the Carifta heroes
STILL in a celebratory mood since their success at the 2015 Carifta Games, both the track and field and swim national teams were recognised for their accomplishments in St Kitts and Nevis and Barbados respectively over the Easter holiday weekend.
THE BRAIN DRAIN: College and university educated Bahamians choosing to move abroad
A REPORT in The Tribune’s Business section earlier this year said that almost two-thirds of college and university-educated Bahamians have moved abroad to seek jobs in developed countries, costing the nation a sum equivalent to 4.4 per cent of its annual gross domestic product.
From ‘devastation’ to optimism in eight months
The opening of its new 10,000 square foot headquarters by early April will complete SMG Millworks’ rapid recovery from last year’s devastating fire, its principal yesterday describing the future outlook as “fantastic”.