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PM: No immediate move to demolish shanty towns

PRIME Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis suggested on Friday that the government will not immediately move to demolish shanty towns despite the recent lifting of a court injunction, saying it makes no sense “responding to a crisis to create another crisis”.

DPM urges Bahamian investors to help add to room capacity as hotels are full

TOURISM Minister Chester Cooper urged Bahamian investors to open their homes to help meet tourism demand, citing room capacity as a challenge due to high hotel occupancy rates.

Post Office can ‘fill gap’ over Out Island banking

A Cabinet minister yesterday suggested the Post Office Savings Bank can “fill the gap” and represent a viable solution to the financial inclusion crisis afflicting many Family Islands due to the commercial bank exodus.

Pit bull dog shot dead after attack on teen girl

POLICE shot and killed one of three unchained pit bulls in Abaco on Friday after a dog seriously injured a teenage girl.

Legal battle looms over Treasure Cay rejection

A controversial Austrian financier is preparing for a legal battle after his bid to acquire Abaco’s Treasure Cay resort property was rejected by the Government.

BTC: $42.8m upgrade leads to 800% data rise

BTC says customers living, working and vacationing in the Bahamas are texting more, talking less and accessing data at rates and speeds that not long ago would have been the stuff of science fiction.

Cash hits back over Gomez attacks

THE governing party’s latest attack on FNM North Abaco by-election candidate Greg Gomez has been ridiculed as a feeble ploy – the opposition claiming the PLP is just ashamed after being caught in the act of victimisation.

GB business owners in Dorian flashbacks

GRAND Bahama business owners yesterday said sub-tropical Storm Nicole is giving them flashbacks to Hurricane Dorian’s devastating impact on the island just over three years ago.

‘Rollins comments show lack of plan by rebel seven’

FORMER Cabinet minister Tennyson Wells yesterday pointed to the recent statements made by Fort Charlotte MP Dr Andre Rollins as further evidence that the “rebel seven” acted selfishly, and were only motivated by “spite and pettiness”.

Constituencies Commission finalising report, says speaker

WITH election season approaching, House Speaker Halson Moultrie said the Constituencies Commission is now faced with the challenge of deciding whether to recommend the reconfiguration of New Providence constituencies or suggest an increase in the number of seats to bring about “parity” in the voting process.

Law and order established

For two hundred years the settlement of Hope Town on Elbow Cay, Abaco, was a sleepy little fishing village with very little crime. In the 1990’s when the internet put the island on the map, the economic growth that followed, led to more and more crime. A tipping point came in 2018 when Hope Town experienced its first armed robbery http://www.tribune242.com/news/2018/may/22/holiday-weekend-blighted-by-series-of-armed/robberies.

Insurer: Dorian causes largest vehicle losses

Bahamas First says Hurricane Dorian’s devastation caused its “largest motor vehicle” loss ever with 538 claims producing gross losses of more $6m in that business category.The property and casualty insurer’s 2019 annual report adds that while most of

PLP’s final candidate selected

THE Progressive Liberal Party has ratified its latest candidate, stating the organisation’s slate of contenders are “officially ready to compete” in the next general election.

A young voter

This upcoming election will be the third time that I, as a young Bahamian male, will vote in a general election.

Funding secured for Family Island airports

THE government has secured the funding needed to complete work on four Family Island airports, Tourism and Aviation Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar announced yesterday, adding that the total cost of the projects is expected to be about $175 million.

Giants at the double

THE Commonwealth Bank Giants and the Your Essential Store Giants won the New Providence Basketball Association’s doubleheader on Monday night at the AF Adderley Gymnasium. In the division one feature contest, the Giants knocked off the Abaco Strong

Critical Marsh Harbour assets eyed for move

The government needs the co-operation of private property owners and other stakeholders to move Marsh Harbour’s town centre further inland, a Cabinet minister said yesterday. Iram Lewis, minister of state for disaster preparedness, management and re

'Hurricane victims told to leave clinic'

SOME Hurricane Dorian victims have been pushed out of the Marsh Harbour Clinic and are being told they cannot sleep at the government complex, two of the few buildings sheltering residents in the aftermath of the storm. These were the claims of Rich

Carnage on roads claims six

A 68-year-old woman pedestrian is among six dead as a result of four separate traffic fatalities in New Providence, Grand Bahama and Abaco over the weekend.

Armed robber guilty of killing cashier challenges conviction

A MAN sentenced to life in prison for murdering a cashier at his family’s food store in the course of an armed robbery on a Family Island a decade ago is seeking to legally contest his conviction.

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