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12,000 living with HIV
ABOUT 12,000 Bahamians were living with HIV/AIDS in 2010, it was disclosed yesterday.
Junior Junkanoo takes to the streets
MORE than 2,000 Junkanoo enthusiasts turned out last night for the Silver Jubilee 2012 Esso Jr Junkanoo Parade.
$8m grant from Chinese govt ‘will be tabled in house’
MINISTER of State for Finance Michael Halkitis yesterday deflected concerns that the decision to accept additional funds from the Chinese government has not been approved by parliament.
Mitchell sends message to mark Emancipation
MONDAY is the Emancipation Day holiday and Fox Hill MP Fred Mitchell is offering best wishes of the people of Fox Hill on the 179th anniversary of the freeing of all slaves.
Police force 'at a crossroads'
THE controversial spate of deaths in police custody has brought the Royal Bahamas Police Force to “the crossroads” according to Bishop Simeon Hall.
Remember Gus Cooper
EDITOR, The Tribune.
Chamber backs localinvestment in gaming
THE Bahamas Chamber of Commerce and Employers Confederation (BCCEC) will take a position with respect to gaming at the upcoming conclave with its sister bodies, its chairman saying it was in support of “free enterprise”.
Government understanding with migration organisation
THE government is negotiating a Memorandum of Understanding with the International Organisation for Migration to garner international assistance with illegal immigration.
BFSB Summit focuses on cultural changes
The Bahamas Financial Services Board’s (BFSB) upcoming International Business and Finance Summit (IBFS) will examine how cultural and family changes impact service providers and financial structuring.
Valley Boys denied request for military muskets
THE Valley Boys’ victorious New Year’s Day parade could have been a real blast from the past had organisers been successful in their request for historic military muskets.
EDITORIAL: Still playing games with the people’s business
PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts is so anxious to blame the FNM for the failed attempt of the 2002 referendum to give Bahamian women the same gender rights as their male counterparts that he has no qualms about distorting history.
INSIGHT: Prime Minister 'delusional' over crime, pre-election issues
The Prime Minister sees crime as the key issue that will decide the next election. However, one observer believes the Christie administration has fallen down on a number of promises, not just crime reduction. Tribune news editor Taneka Thompson explores the issue.
No answers to cost of rehabilitation centre
MONDAY’S opening of the Child and Adolescent and Robert Smith Complex at the Sandilands Rehabilitation Centre was overshadowed by the sketchy and questionable management of the project by successive administrations, Democratic National Alliance Leader Branville McCartney said yesterday.
Government signs five-year deal with nurses union
EXECUTIVES of the Bahamas Nurses Union yesterday signed two five-year industrial agreements with the government, ending an arduous process that initially saw both sides come to an agreement only to have minor details force negotiators back to the table.
New tax to pay for NHI scheme
THE implementation of National Health Insurance, which is slated for a January 2016 first phase roll-out, “will likely” be financed through a new tax on Bahamians, according to Health minister Dr Perry Gomez.
$7m contract signed to improve Andros roads
MINISTRY of Works officials yesterday signed a $7m contract to reconstruct a “critically important” stretch of road in North Andros leading up to the recently built Bahamas Agriculture and Marine Sciences Institute (BAMSI).
Pastors’ Stone Age thinking
The coalition of pastors who seem to have but one string to their ecclesiastical guitar again launched into a chorus of hate in a now predictable attempt to blur the line between church business and state business.
Christie calls sex discrimination against women ‘abhorrent’
LORD save us from politicians!
How the Caribbean lost out
The bastardisation of a line from Shakespeare’s Hamlet most aptly sums up the response of our flyboy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Fred “Supersonic” Mitchell: “Me thinks thou dost protest too much.”
PM ‘unnecessarily raising Baha Mar expectations’
The Prime Minister was yesterday urged by a former Baha Mar director to stop “unnecessarily raising the Bahamian people’s expectations” that the $3.5 billion project’s fate will be resolved quickly, adding: “It’s out of his control.”