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Assessment into liberalisation of cell phone market is completed

A GOVERNMENT appointed task force overseeing the liberalisation of the cellular phone market has completed its assessments into the process and will report to the nation on the matter within days.

Fertility tracking bracelet unveiled

THERE’S a wearable for just about everything these days - including one designed to help women trying to get pregnant.

Govt has its annus horribilis

This week was the equivalent of that famous quote of Her Majesty - ‘annus horribilis’.

$8,000 bail granted for man facing charges of $9,000 debit card fraud

A MAN was granted $8,000 bail yesterday after he allegedly racked up nearly $9,000 in fraudulent debit card charges for food, hotel and generator bills.

'Tell residents about plans for Baha Mar'

SENATOR Jerome Gomez yesterday called on BahaMar executives to take the first steps to keep concerned Killarney residents informed of the company's future plans.

PMH'S CRITICAL CARE BLOCK '20% FINISHED'

By NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net THE $52 million Princess Margaret Hospital Critical Care Block is on schedule and about 20 per cent complete, Cavalier Construction's managing director said yesterday, telling Tribu

PM falling apart at the seams

ARE reports true that Prime Minister Perry Christie told an audience that it is easy to “piss away” money?

Sandals reopens for business after refit

SANDALS Royal Bahamian re-opened its doors on Tuesday with a complement of nearly 500 staff members and guests in 75 rooms following a multimillion dollar makeover that began in mid-August, the resort said.

FNM Chairman slams Fitzgerald over Baha Mar VAT exemption

SIDNEY Collie, Chairman of the Free National Movement (FNM), on Friday decried the attempts by Jerome Fitzgerald to describe the effects of the government granting China Construction America and all sub-contractors exemption from Value-Added Tax on the completion of Baha Mar as “miniscule as far as we were concerned”.

Marco Archer murder trial will go ahead

THERE will be no stay on the Marco Archer murder trial after Justice Bernard Turner yesterday struck out the application made by murder accused Kofhe Goodman.

Jurors chosen for Marco murder trial

A 12-MEMBER jury was empanelled yesterday to hear evidence in the Marco Archer murder trial before Justice Bernard Turner.

$45M payment as Baha Mar passes 100ft-high mark

THE Ministry of Finance has authorised a $45 million payment to Baha Mar to mark the completion of the first 100-foot high mark of the development following ‘arguments’ over the monetary obligation, Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday.

Prime Minister's statement on Baha Mar agreement in full

It gives me great pleasure to announce that earlier today, the Government of The Bahamas, and the Export-Import Bank of China, signed an agreement under which the Baha Mar resort will be completed, and sold to a world-class hotel and casino operator.

BPL rates ‘among the highest’ consumers pay in the region

Bahamians are paying “among the highest” electricity prices in the Caribbean even though the base rate is set “below cost” with tariff charges said to be double the global average.

EDITORIAL: ‘Bring ’em in, suck ’em dry and throw away the husk’

LAST YEAR, we wrote two editorials, each inviting Prime Minister Christie to tell Bahamians whose side he and his government were on in the dispute between Baha Mar developer Sarkis Izmirlian and the Beijing owned EXIM bank and its construction company.

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