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Local technicians lauded for keeping life-saving machines running and up-to-date

Three service technicians, all with impeccable records of servicing the machines that save our lives, are being lauded by their company, which is considered a leader in health and innovation in the Bahamas.

Aliv in ‘phenomenal position’ financially

The Bahamas’ new mobile operator is in “a phenomenal position” financially, having secured $186 million in start-up funding prior to this week’s planned capital raising.

EDITORIAL: Baha Mar attempts to break bread again

AS IF to make amends for an embarrassing blunder, the much troubled Baha Mar resort prepared dinner Thursday evening for Family Islanders who had been flown to Nassau and housed at the New Providence Community Centre to escape the wrath of Hurricane Irma.

BTC: Mobile data to 'Double in 12 months'

The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) is projecting that mobile data demand will “double within the next year”, as it prepares to invest $17 million this financial year to pave the way for its latest cellular technology.

Wall Street cuts Bahamas GDP growth

A Wall Street credit rating agency yesterday said it would likely downgrade its 2013 economic growth projections for the Bahamas.

US drops challenge to $8m ‘fraud’ funds

The US Justice Department will not challenge a Court of Appeal verdict over more than $8 million that once belonged to convicted ‘con man’, Derek Guise Turner, allowing Loretta Butler-Turner’s family and other defrauded Bahamian victims to determine how this sum is to be distributed.

CCA: Baha Mar ‘tied our hands’ in payment row

China Construction America’s (CCA) Bahamian subsidiary is alleging that Baha Mar “tied our hands” over resolving a $755,000 payment dispute, which was placed on the back burner due to the $3.5 billion project’s “implosion”.

FINCO consolidation raises job loss concern

Concerns were raised yesterday about the prospect of further banking sector jobs losses, as Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) unveiled more consolidation plans for its mortgage-lending arm that are set to be implemented on Monday.

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Cycling Club Bahamas. - Weekday rides, east: Morning, Tuesday & Thursday, leaving 5am sharp from Sea Grapes Shopping Centre, East Prince Charles Drive.

‘The hottest place in the Out Islands’

Developers behind Abaco’s Schooner Bay community yesterday expressed confidence it would become “the hottest place to be in the Out Islands” within five years, telling Tribune Business all infrastructure/utilities work would be completed by December 2012.

External reserves 'run-off' in 2012 no major concern

External reserves 'run-off' in 2012 no major concern By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor While the Central Bank of the Bahamas is expecting "some run-off" in the nation's external reserves, its governor yesterday told Tribune Business any drop woul

DPM blasts ‘unacceptable’ Aliv, BTC dropped calls

The Deputy Prime Minister yesterday said the service quality provided by the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) and Aliv is “unacceptable” with their failings “difficult to comprehend”.

Residents turn to social media to find loved ones

FRIENDS and family members took to social media in a desperate attempt to locate scores of loved ones from Abaco who were displaced in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian. Ever since the monster storm battered the northeastern island with its 180 mph

Tourism pledges 'proactive reply' to new US crime alert

THE Minister of Tourism has ordered his officials “to become a lot more proactive” in addressing US safety concerns, after the Bahamas was subjected to another ‘crime alert’.Dionisio D’Aguilar told Tribune Business he felt the Government had “failed

BTC owner: Abaco 'a humanitarian disaster'

The Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) owner is eyeing fixed wireless solutions to reduce construction costs associated with rebuilding network infrastructure in Abaco post-Dorian. Balan Nair, Liberty Latin America’s (LiLAC) chief executive,

Officer told me they took Marvin

HUMAN rights group Rights Bahamas filed a writ of habeas corpus in the Supreme Court yesterday seeking to compel the Royal Bahamas Police Force to produce Marvin Pratt, 40, a Gambier Village resident police deny having in custody.

BEC profit margins 'wiped out' in 2010

The Bahamas Electricity Corporation’s (BEC) profit margins had been wiped out as far back as 2010, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has revealed.

Gov't urged: 'Get serious' on public pensions reforms

A top accountant yesterday urged the Government “to get serious” on making changes to civil service pensions, warning that ever-increasing unfunded liabilities threatened to create “huge deficits” regardless of fiscal reform.

Citizens for Justice group offers plan to tackle crime

AS VIOLENT crime continues to escalate, activist group Citizens For Justice has established a plan of action it believes will help turn the tide against criminals and make the Bahamas a safer place to live.

‘Desperate attempt’ to keep Baha Mar afloat

Sarkis Izmirlian’s near-$15 million advances to Baha Mar were last night branded “a desperate attempt” to keep the Chapter 11 case alive, with the project’s contractor accusing him of attempting to “manufacture” connections to the US.

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