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Clayton Bain retains national sculling title
TREASURE CAY, Abaco — Clayton Bain didn’t waste anytime in proving why he was the defending champion of the Sands Beer ‘Man in the Boat’ National Sculling Championships.
Open letter on food aid
LAST Friday, October 1, the work of the Food Assistance Task Force came to a formal end. For seventy weeks without interruption, and all the while in the face of the global Covid-19 pandemic, food security for tens of thousands of Bahamian households was assured.
INSIGHT: The future of businesses in the Family Islands
AS THE road to 50 years of independence continues, FAY SIMMONS discussed the future of Family Island small and medium sized businesses with their local Chamber of Commerce representatives.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Finding our roots, literally
THE very word farming conjures up physical images. Words like honest labour, grit, sweat on the brow, God’s green earth. Its words are prayer-like -- praying for good weather and absence of insects that eat what you are growing before you can harvest it.
Andros Chickcharnies take home gold in golf
Grand Bahama Lucayans secure silver, NP Buccaneers win bronze
THE Chickcharnies will carry the sixth Bahamas Games team gold medal home to Andros.
Food store VAT exceeds forecast by double digits
Food stores’ early 12 percent VAT collections have exceeded predictions by double digits, with Super Value’s owner admitting: “We were all wrong about breadbasket sales.”Rupert Roberts told Tribune Business that VAT “zero rated” food products were up
Central Bank eyes 'movable collateral registry' initiative
The Central Bank is set to study the feasibility of creating “a registry to track movable chattel pledged by borrowers”, such as vehicles, in a bid to improve credit access for deserving borrowers. John Rolle, the Central Bank’s governor, yesterday
Insurers: Dorian losses increase to $1.5bn-$2bn
Estimates for Hurricane Dorian’s total insured losses were yesterday said to have increased to between $1.5bn to $2bn as the entire Bahamian industry was removed from international “review”. Anton Saunders, RoyalStar Assurance’s managing director, t
Auto ‘shot in arm’ via 31% sales rise
Auto dealers received a “badly needed shot in the arm” from 2019’s 31.18 percent sales increase, it was revealed yesterday, marking the industry’s best performance since VAT’s arrival.
Freeport 'desperately needs' govt's $10m
Several hundred Freeport businesses ravaged by Hurricane Dorian were yesterday said to “desperately need” the Government to extend its $10m financing facility to the city.Carey Leonard, the former Grand Bahama Port Authority in-house counsel, told Tr
DPM: VAT relief for services 'too costly'
Eliminating VAT on services in the Dorian-hit islands would be difficult to police and too costly, the deputy prime minister said yesterday, while granting tax breaks to companies that do not need them. K Peter Turnquest, pictured , explaining the g
The Bahamas continues to be a nation that victimises and abuses the human and constitutional rights of people of Haitian ethnic origin
Leading human rights lawyer Fred Smith has strongly rejected the government’s response to complaints by the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights about The Bahamas renewed deportation of undocumented migrants.
Receivers accused of 'outrageous privacy invasion'
A Bahamian realtor has accused the former receivers for Abaco’s Orchid Bay project of “an extensive and outrageous invasion of privacy”, and denied inferences that he or his family had “behaved in any way fraudulently”.
Sigma Brackettes are the champions
The Sigma Brackettes and Abaco Bulldogs are the ladies and men’s national champions respectively.
A warm welcome for royal guests
PRINCE Edward, earl of Wessex, yesterday continued his royal visit to the Bahamas, leading a contingent to three Governor General’s Youth Awards Programme (GGYA) centres in New Providence.
Nurses are ‘sick and tired’ of treatment by govt
JANNAH Khalfani, president of the Bahamas Nurses Union, said yesterday she is “sick and tired” of being “disregarded and disrespected” by the government after the Department of Public Health postponed the signing of the union’s industrial agreement for the third time “for no reason.”
More Bahamians are now working claims Labour Minister
A DAY after the latest results of the Department of Statistics' labour survey revealed that the unemployment rate has risen to 14.8 per cent, with more than one in seven Bahamians now out of a job, Labour Minister Shane Gibson claimed the Bahamas has made "tremendous strides since the global recession".
Cable Bahamas 28% subscription rise applications approved by URCA
CABLE Bahamas' application to increase monthly charges by up to 28 per cent for two of its subscription television channels and introduction of a new basic service has been approved by the Utilities Regulation and Competition Authority (URCA) after a year-long consultation process.
Who will determine eligibility?
Beginning January 18, 2016 the government will initiate registration for their National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme through the National Insurance Board (NIB), who will determine eligibility for the programme.