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Promises made & kept
It is a common expectation here in The Bahamas and I am sure almost all around the world, that voters are accustomed to politicians and their allies making big and bold promises to them about high browed plans to make their lives better while encouraging the economic and societal advancements of the nation, once elected. This is a sad refrain that has played out in our wonderful nation for successive decades ad nauseum.
Building permit delay slash 'win-win for all'
Construction industry executives yesterday hailed the government’s ambition to slash by 75 percent the “exorbitant” time taken to obtain building permits as “a win-win for everybody”.Robert Myers, principal of the Caribbean Group and multiple constru
15th Cacique Awards
A COUPLE who opened some of Abaco’s early hotels and worked to preserve kerosene-fuelled lighthouses are winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award for the 15th Cacique Awards.
Drumeco Archer returned as BAAA president
AFTER an intense campaign, Drumeco Archer was returned on Saturday as president of the Bahamas Association of Athletic Associations for the next four years, a term that will include the hosting of the 50th CARIFTA Games and the return of the World Athletics Relays in 2024.
FRONT PORCH: A fitting memorial for the Jubilee?
BUILDINGS and monuments are more than physical structures. They may also serve as memorials, as extensions of the soul, as commemorative landscapes recalling certain events and histories, summoning new generations to inscribe their stories on a living tradition or history.
ERIC WIBERG: Shipwrecks of The Bahamas – Highbourne Cay Shipwreck, Exumas, 1513 Iberian, Diego Miruelo, Ponce de Leon
THE night of Tuesday, September 23, 1513, was another boisterous one for a fleet of four heavily armed Spanish vessels returning from a mission to find Florida.
Big Red Machine just keeps rolling
The St Augustine’s College (SAC) Big Red Machine kept rolling at the 2024 National High School Track and Field Championships where they claimed six out of eight division victories on Sunday evening at the original Thomas A Robinson Stadium.
'True local government needed' for Family Island’s development
THE LEGAL director of an environmental group believes that the Family Islands will only prosper if local government is strengthened giving more power to the people who reside in these communities.
Businesses ‘crippled’ by 2/3 redundancy pay rise
Outraged Bahamian employers yesterday slammed the Government’s decision to press forward with union-friendly labour law reforms, including a 67 per cent increase in redundancy pay, as “crippling” individual businesses and the wider economy.
Wheelchair valet hailed as an Unsung Hero of health care
VERONICA Ferguson, wheelchair valet and concierge service personnel at the Princess Margaret Hospital, is the recipient of the monthly Public Hospitals Authority (PHA) Unsung Heroes award for February.
Bahamas 'biggest' employment claim rejected on appeal
A $1.346m wrongful dismissal claim against a BISX-listed insurer, rejected by the Court of Appeal, was yesterday branded by an employment law specialist as the “biggest” he has ever seen in The Bahamas. Robert Adams, consultant attorney at Delaney P
INSIGHT: Why hasn’t this project which could transform our country been put on the fast track Dr Minnis planned?
BAHAMAS Aviation, Climate & Severe Weather Network (BACSWN) is delighted to announce that following its recent designation as ‘Meteorological Weather Authority’ for International Civil Aviation; alongside, instructions contained in the Cabinet Conclusion — provided by Hon. Dionisio D’Aguilar to Eileen Dupuch-Carron, CMG, LLb, on February 14, 2020 — it has commenced the process of filing notice with the FAA, ICAO and IATA of its intention to stand-up, fund and staff our nation’s first ‘Meteorological Watch Office’ with “the necessary technical and operational expertise to maintain a continuous 24/7/365 real-time watch over the weather conditions affecting any flight or vessel operations within the 183,00 sq miles The Bahamas’ sovereign archipelagic baselines, territorial seas, contiguous and exclusive economic zone (EEZ).”
INSIGHT: A million dollars for a smart new complex - now tear it down
AN estimated $1m of taxpayer dollars has been wasted in the part construction of a new building on the campus of Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute which is now “just sitting there out back waiting to be demolished”, Insight can reveal.
Bahamas faces 'now or fail' predicament
The Economic Recovery Committee's (ERC) co-chair yesterday said none of its proposals will cure The Bahamas' ills by themselves, amid warnings that the country must "reform now or fail".
Throwers take advantage of Blue Chips meet
AMIDST the postponement of the CARIFTA Games and not too many meets to compete in, throwers are taking advantage of the Blue Chips Throwers Club’s series of events at the Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium.
Mullings leads UB Mingoes, breaks national heptathlon indoor record
KEN Mullings led a 14-member team from the University of the Bahamas Mingoes track and field team at the 2018 Fred Wilt Invitational over the weekend at the Lambert Fieldhouse in West Lafayette, Indiana by breaking the men’s national heptathlon indoo
Inferno at sea
AN American woman died after a tour company’s boat engine exploded off Barraterre, Exuma, on Saturday in an accident that left ten other people, including her 39-year-old husband, one Bahamian and nine Americans, injured.
FACE TO FACE: Our own Dr King ready to shake the political throne
It takes a lot of guts to start your own political movement. Many people have complaints about the system of government.
Grand Lucayan's buyer: 'We've secured liquidity'
The joint venture purchaser/developer of Freeport’s Grand Lucayan resort last night said it has “secured the required liquidity” for its planned $300m project and will shortly discuss “timelines” with the government. Robert Shamosh, Holistica Destin