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$500M PROJECT TO BRING 700 JOBS: Carnival Cruise Line move hailed as ‘turning point’ by top executive

CARNIVAL Cruise Line’s investment in Celebration Key, a new port destination that will welcome guests in 2025, has increased to $500m, more than double the initial $200m investment.

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20-member Team Bahamas named for Pan Am Games

TWENTY participants will represent The Bahamas at the Pan American Games in Santiago, Chile following the selection made by the Bahamas Olympic Committee (BOC).

Water Corp’s monthly bills to aid consumers

The Water and Sewerage Corporation’s (WSC) top executive yesterday said customers will enjoy “quite a few benefits” such as earlier leak detection through the utility’s switch to monthly billing.

Flamingo Air is back in the air after mid-flight mishap

FLAMINGO Air has resumed services after being grounded earlier this month when the boarding ladder on an aircraft deployed mid-flight.

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Wendy’s chief on PI: ‘What’s all the fuss?’

The Wendy’s and Marco’s Pizza franchise principals “don’t understand what all this fuss is about” as they sought to argue why their Paradise Island restaurant project should receive planning permission.

FNM to ratify candidate for West GB and Bimini by Thursday of this week

THE Free National Movement expects to ratify a candidate for the upcoming West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election by the end of this week after at least one person applied for the party’s nomination: Bishop Ricardo Grant.

US Embassy-funded Academy of Women Entrepreneurs programme launches in GB

SOME 50 women entrepreneurs in Grand Bahama will have an opportunity to win grant funding through the US Embassy’s Academy of Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) programme.

Seven Jamaican companies meet Bahamas counterparts

Seven Jamaican manufacturers visited The Bahamas on a three-day trade mission earlier this month in a bid to strengthen economic ties and promote regional integration.

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FACE TO FACE: Nurse Gwendolyn Brice-Sealy – Called to care

IT takes a special calling on one’s life to be called to care for others when they are, in some cases, at their lowest. Being ill is never easy. But the people who care for you during your infirmity can make the world of difference in your recovery. Nurse Gwendolyn Brice-Sealy knows this, and she considers the calling on her life to care for the sick a blessing that has enriched her life.

Two vying to represent the PLP in upcoming by-election

PACO Deal and Robert Grant –– an attorney and a businessman –– said they would apply to be the Progressive Liberal Party's candidates in the West Grand Bahama and Bimini by-election.

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Atlantis unveils petition opposing Wendy’s plan

Atlantis yesterday urged planning authorities to “not subject Paradise Island to indiscriminate development” as it unveiled a 100-strong petition opposing the Wendy’s and Marco’s Pizza restaurant project.

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Dad of child who shot himself facing multiple charges

THE father of a boy who shot himself in the abdomen last week has been charged with a crime.

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‘Cheap menu offerings’: PI residents join Wendy’s fight

Paradise Island resorts and residents are arguing that “cheap menu offerings do not convey” the correct brand image as they unite to oppose Wendy’s bid to obtain planning approvals for its new restaurant.

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Jonquel Jones helps Liberty take Game 3 of WNBA Finals, avoid sweep

NEW YORK (AP) — Jonquel Jones scored 27 points and Breanna Stewart added 20 to help the New York Liberty beat the Las Vegas Aces 87-73 yesterday in the WNBA Finals and force a Game 4.

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Obie Wilchcombe laid to rest in West End, Grand Bahama

The late Obediah Wilchcombe, Cabinet Minister and MP for West Grand Bahama and Bimini, was laid to rest in his native West End on Saturday, following his State Funeral at the Pro-Cathedral of Christ the King in Freeport.

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Back to the farm at Beacon

Grand Bahama school launches agriculture programme with support from the Agricultural Development Organisation (ADO).

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Senior Family Guardian VP testifies in miscarriage case

A SENIOR Family Guardian vice president testified on Friday that they denied Alana Major’s request to work from home during a difficult pregnancy because she didn’t get back to them with further information from her doctor.

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Clubs & Societies, October 13, 2023

The Government High School Alumni Association is proud to announce the nominees for the 2nd Annual Government High School Alumni Association Phoenix Awards.

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DIANE PHILLIPS: When the public speaks up, bad ideas can be grounded

A UNIQUE thing happened this week. Amid the horror played out on TV screens of violence rocking the Middle East with innocent men, women and children being captured and slaughtered, entire cities and villages burned and destroyed, amidst the burial of a revered Bahamian Cabinet minister who suffered an untimely and shocking death and amidst the tearful memorial for the head boy at QC who died before he had a chance to live, there was a bright and shining light.

Govt’s ‘reprehensible’ failure led to woman’s ‘near financial ruin’

A Supreme Court judge has slammed the Government’s “reprehensible” failure that drove a Bahamian woman to “almost financial ruin” after it failed to compensate her over acquiring land for a road yet to be built.