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Solar firm designs 300 Atlantis lights

Solar firm designs 300 Atlantis lights A solar lighting products firm has designed and installed 300 solar LED bollards for the Atlantis Resort 0n Paradise Island, it announced yesterday. Canadian-based First Light Technologies said the lights, used for

Man arrested after suspected marijuana found

A 38-year-old Abaco man was arrested on Thursday following the discovery of a large quantity of suspected drugs on that island.

Marijuana stash discovered in Bimini

BIMINI police discovered a quantity of dangerous drugs on the island this week, a senior police official reported.

It's time for leaders to improve performance

What with the laxity of Iram Lewis’s grossly incorrect report on the availability of hurricane shelters in Family Islands, and Customs “not wanting to come in and clear arriving boats” at multiple marinas in Nassau, things seem to be running just as irresponsibly as usual.

Cybots sweep Pros

DEFENDING champions Mail Boat Cybots completed a two-game sweep over the Island Luck Pros

Web shops urged: Recognise GBPA license authority

The Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) was yesterday said to desire an amicable resolution of its legal disputes with two web shop chains, provided they recognise its “jurisdiction as the sole licensing authority for Freeport”.

Why Danny might be a blessing for the parched Caribbean

The Atlantic Ocean finally got its first hurricane of the season last week, when Danny passed the hurricane test with wind speeds in excess of 75 mph and a developed eye.

FRONT PORCH: The neglect and needs of Caribbean and Pacific states

LAST week, US president Joe Biden asked Congress for an additional $24 billion to support the war in Ukraine. As noted by Mark Cancian, a senior policy advisor with the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and others, this will bring total US aid to a staggering approximately $135 billion.

FACE TO FACE: Caribbean diaspora key to sustainable future of tourism

THE Bahamas’ Director of Investments, Phylicia Hanna, says the Caribbean Diaspora has a key role to play in the future of tourism, the number one industry in most of the countries in the region. By expanding their reach from the United States to countries like the Bahamas, she believes, Diasporans could increase their wealth while supporting the natives in their homeland.

Women flying sky high

LAST May, the country’s national airline celebrated a great milestone with the induction of the first female captains to its lineup.

Taking a chance to grow ideas

“KEYRON, why would you leave your good position and secure job to go work for a non-profit on a family island? You realise they get their money from donations, right!?”

Top realtor’s $432k claim survives US buyer’s strike out

A prominent Bahamian realtor’s $432,000 legal claim over the sale of a multi-million dollar Eleuthera investment project has survived a US developer’s bid to strike it out.

INSIGHT: In our darkest hour, caring hearts are most needed

JUST over two weeks ago, the islands and cays of Abaco and Grand Bahama were devastated by the ruthless winds and rain of Category 5 Hurricane Dorian. Left in its trail of destruction, the stench of death and loss still permeates the air of two jewels in the crown of The Bahamas – completely altering the picturesque landscape of the treasured Bahama islands.

Web shop pay cut threat over anti-VAT demo

Island Luck employees were seemingly threatened with the loss of a day’s pay if they did not attend yesterday’s anti-VAT and gaming tax protest in Rawson Square.

Abaco's power woe 'too much' to bear

FED-UP Abaco businesses yesterday blasted the island’s latest power crisis as “too much” to bear, with visitors leaving or “threatening to leave” due to the extended outages.Don Cash, a Hope Town council member whose company manages between 115-120 v

‘Better late than never’: Residents say action needed earlier to help stop Bimini outbreak

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced a two-week lockdown of Bimini yesterday after two new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed on the island, bringing the total there to 13 and the country’s total to 96.

BUSINESS BITES: To really grow our economy we need foreigners - tens of thousands of them

Whenever I look at a map of the Caribbean I am astonished at the size of our country: an archipelago 760 miles long, matching the arc stretching from the Virgin Islands down to Trinidad, giving us sovereignty over the 150,000 square miles of earth and water known as the Lucayan Sea.

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