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Bowling: Driskell and Sonith are national champions

DRISKELL Rolle and Sonith Lockhart were the last junior girl and men’s national champions when the doors of the Village Bowling Lanes were closed in the 1990s.

Pinder hails 'remarkable journey' of Chinese state

MINISTER of Financial Services Ryan Pinder hailed the People’s Republic of China’s “remarkable journey” since its founding in 1949.

Bahamas ‘stands out like sore thumb’ over COVID entry testing

Tourism executives are warning The Bahamas “stands out like a sore thumb” over its continued COVID entry testing measures after the US eliminated such restrictions with effect from midnight yesterday.

Clubs and events

Bahamas Down Syndrome Center. - On March 21st, 2013 (World Down Syndrome Day International), the Bahamas Down Syndrome Association screens its documentary, “Don’t Look Down, Look Up”, with the Prime Minister and other members of Government of the Bahamas in the audience, with all of our children and adults performing for this event!

Chapter 11 ‘ideal vehicle for Baha Mar’ if all agreed

A US judge yesterday agreed that Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection would have been “an ideal vehicle for restructuring” the $3.5 billion Baha Mar project had the Government and its Chinese partners not objected to using it.

Concerns over Royal Caribbean beach club

THE following is an open letter from Eric Carey, former executive director of The Bahamas National Trust (BNT), a non-profit, non-government, membership organisation focused on conserving and protecting the Bahamian environment. Mr Carey now leads ONE Consultants, an independent environmental consultancy that has been engaged by Atlantis to review the environmental impact of the proposed Royal Caribbean beach club project.

Skills transfer woe still a ‘sad reality’

The Bahamas must change “the sad reality” that key skills and knowledge are not being passed on to local workers by expatriate work permit holders, a prominent contractor argued yesterday.

ZNS staff jobs and politics

I am writing in response to an interesting article under the headline ''ZNS Staff Jobs Shock'' in the August 17 edition of The Tribune.

FTX’s fall ‘won’t ruin’ high-end real estate

Bahamian realtors believe the FTX crypto currency exchange’s implosion will not “ruin” western New Providence’s high-end property market as bargain hunters start to circle its $74m worth of holdings.

Complaints against police

The violent attack on the 117th United States Congress and US Capitol in Washington, DC, on January 6th must be of concern to law-enforcement agencies and democratic governments and societies around the world, particularly in this region.

Tourism 'cannot maintain' double digit growth pace

The Minister of Tourism is targeting “high single digit” growth in stopover visitors for 2019, arguing that the ten to 15 percent full-year increase he forecast for 2018 “can’t be maintained”.Dionisio D’Aguilar told Tribune Business yesterday that th

‘PURSUE HIM TO BOUNDS OF HELL’: Minnis rails at aide’s killing - he must be caught

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has instructed Royal Bahamas Police Force Commissioner Anthony Ferguson to use all resources available, including marines to track Inspector Carlis Blatch’s killer, even to the “bounds of hell,” to ensure justice is done.

‘His hand never left the plough’

THE late Monsignor Preston Moss was yesterday described by Catholic Archbishop Patrick Pinder as a man of “very deep faith” and an “engaging preacher with a deep, deep understanding and knowledge” of sacred scriptures.

Family shock as killer’s sentence cut by 19 years

A nearly 20 year sentence reduction for a convicted Grand Bahama murderer has sent shockwaves through the victim’s family, and left his widow calling for changes to the country’s legal system.

Aliv targets summer 2019 for ‘break even’

Aliv is targeting summer 2019 for its operations to hit “break even” through $50-$60m in annual revenues, as it unveiled plans to “double down” on investment in its mobile network.

City Markets pension fund: 'Unauthorised fees' claim

A senior trade union executive and other former City Markets employees have alleged that an attorney “deducted unauthorised and unexplained fees” from sums he received on their behalf from the defunct supermarket chain’s pension plan.

Compounding our pension problems

Whilst we are all living longer, we must ensure we do not outlive our accumulated pension savings. In fact, this is perhaps the single greatest challenge that will confront ‘baby-boomers’ who will be retiring annually (in large numbers) over the next 20 years.

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