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BTC: 60% voice traffic growth drives new sites
The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) is set to bring three more cell towers into service by month’s end, in a bid to relieve New Providence “hot spot” bottlenecks created by a 27,000 per cent increase in data traffic.
Jessica Korda wins Bahamas LPGA Classic
PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas (AP) — Jessica Korda laughed about her winning up-and-down and being sprayed with shaving cream. She choked up, too, thinking about her cancer-stricken coach.
Clubs and societies May 16
Cycling Club Bahamas. - Upcoming Events:
Gov't to close 30,000 household 'digital divide'
The Government has pledged to close a ‘digital divide’ that has left 30,000 Bahamian households without fixed broadband Internet services, warning that it is “of critical importance that the Bahamas never drops the ball” on electronic communications.
Gov't sector policy contradicts PM on BTC cell monopoly
The Government’s draft communications sector policy makes no mention of extending the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) cellular monopoly beyond its current April 2014 expiration, and instead calls for competition to come “as expeditiously as possible”.
BISX finds partner to ‘revive’ Junior Market
The Bahamas International Securities Exchange (BISX) is aiming to unveil a partnership by end-March that will “revive” its long-planned junior market facility.
Bran: ‘I won’t invest any more because of crime’
The Democratic National Alliance’s (DNA) leader yesterday said escalating crime was deterring him from investing further in Nassau-based business ventures, with the US Embassy taking just five days to issue its first crime warning for 2016.
Bahamian contractors willing to save Baha Mar
AFTER sitting at the negotiating table into the wee hours of a Beijing morning, the Bahamas government delegation was on its way home last night with little good news of the fate of the $3.5 billion Baha Mar resort.
CLUBS AND SOCIETIES MAY 29, 2015
Bahamas National Trust. – Bahamas National Trust science officer Agnessa Lundy and education officer Scott Johnson have been selected as participants in the 2015 Conservation Leadership in the Caribbean (CLiC) fellows programme.
EDITORIAL: Govt’s due diligence of CTFE must be thorough
AS a Bahamas government delegation jetted to Hong Kong over the weekend, to meet with and conduct a due diligence investigation of the conglomerate that wants to purchase Baha Mar, it would seem by announcements being made in Nassau that the trip is only a formality.
External reserves off $100m from end-2012
The Bahamas' external reserves are down almost $100 million from year-end 2012, indicating that foreign currency inflows are not occurring at a fast-enough rate to replenish them.
Union's BTC Board control hope dashed
The trade union representing the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) line staff yesterday said it was “a bit disappointed” that the Government had failed to regain Board control, having hoped this would provide a bulwark against further job losses.
Bahamas urged to focus on FDI's 65%
The Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation’s (BCCEC) chairman yesterday urged the Government to focus on ‘spin-off’ opportunities generated for Bahamian businesses by foreign direct investment (FDI) projects, suggesting these accounted for 65 per cent of their economic activities.
Port extracts $2m per year from GB Power
By NEIL HARTNELL
BTC’s 9% mobile fall undermines its owner
The 9 per cent contraction in the Bahamas Telecommunications Company’s (BTC) mobile revenues for the three months to end-December 2015 helped undermine its owner’s top-line growth, it was revealed yesterday.
Sir Milo's family defeats US over $8m 'con man' assets
The late Sir Milo Butler’s family has won a battle with the US Justice Department over who should have first claim to $8 million raised from the sale of assets forfeited by convicted Bahamas-based fraudster, Derek Guise Turner.
Countdown to Beach Soccer WCup begins
With the final scope of work on the newly constructed Malcolm Park Beach Soccer facility about 93 per cent complete, the Bahamas Football Association and the Local Organising Committee are preparing to welcome the world to the Bahamas.
WORLD VIEW: Transparency vital in passport and residence programmes
THE global US television company, Cable News Network (CNN), broadcast the first part of a programme on February 8, alleging the sale of Venezuelan passports to Iraqis and others through the country’s Embassy in Baghdad. The programme suggested that it is possible that terrorists might have been among those alleged to have bought passports.
A COMIC'S VIEW: Baha Mar date sets the mark ahead of general election
TO date, Bahamians still do not know when our next general election will be held.
In ‘national interest’ to end water plant waste
A Cabinet minister yesterday said it was “manifestly in the national interest” to complete a much-criticised waste water treatment plant project plagued by a 91 percent cost overrun.