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AML bucks 'post-Xmas lag' via 10% same-store rise

AML bucks 'post-Xmas lag' via 10% same-store rise By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor AML Foods yesterday said fears of a top-line hit from consumers taking ever-longer to recover from Christmas had failed to materialise, with its same-store sales

AML bucks 'post-Xmas lag' via 10% same-store rise

AML bucks 'post-Xmas lag' via 10% same-store rise By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor AML Foods yesterday said fears of a top-line hit from consumers taking ever-longer to recover from Christmas had failed to materialise, with its same-store sales

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Atlantis returns some staff to furlough status

Atlantis last night confirmed it has had to place multiple workers back on temporary furlough with effect from today due to "unfavourable occupancy forecasts" for January 2021.

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Sunday morning robbery terror: police shoot suspects after Super Value is raided

POLICE shot two armed robbery suspects early on Sunday morning, moments after they robbed Super Value Food Store on West Bay Street and led police on high-speed chase that ended in a residential area off East Street South.

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How can we let new clinic open?

THE $300,000 clinic under development in San Salvador will remain closed indefinitely after construction has been completed, Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said Saturday.

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Extended curfew order sparks shopping frenzy

SHOPPERS flocked to grocery stores yesterday, queuing for hours in long lines after Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced a daily 24-hour curfew and more restrictions for the country.

Plastics ban: Transition period to help business

THE six-month transition period for businesses to sell off prohibited single-use plastic bags represents efforts to provide relief to businesses who have made significant financial commitments, according to Ministry of Environment officials.In an int

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A COMIC'S VIEW: Real Life v Reality TV

Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that I probably watch way too much so-called “Reality” television. I have no good excuse for this except to submit to the court that such programming is practically unavoidable.

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'1,000%' confident on pre-Christmas South Beach re-open

Super Value’s owner yesterday said he was “1,000 per cent” confident that his second Quality Supermarkets store would open at South Beach pre-Christmas, telling Tribune Business it would not believe the anti-copper theft defences he had to install.

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Halkitis: No way new House of Assembly will be built this term

MEMBERS of Parliament have not put forward a motion to have their salaries raised, State Minister for Finance Michael Halkitis emphasised yesterday as he also added that in his view, “there’s no way” a new House of Assembly building will be constructed this term.

CCA fearing Baha Mar completion miss

Baha Mar’s main contractor is raising the alarm that it will again miss the $4.2 billion project’s completion deadline, following the eruption of a legal dispute with a key supplier.China Construction America’s (CCA) Bahamian subsidiary, in legal fil

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FACE TO FACE: Kevin bares his soul in language which helps us all to see

The poem on the right is one in a series about to be released in a newly-published book Revelations of a Silent Heart by author Kevin Cartwright. I have had a sneak peek at the book and I find the poems so heartfelt, so sincere and very touching. This is his literary debut, which he describes as “a brave compilation of various moods of poetry and prose that speak about life, love, risks and the courage to face head on whatever life throws at him”.

Survivor of the Holocaust tells how Schindler saved her life

DURING the entire period in which we worked for Director Schindler, he did everything possible to save the lives of the greatest possible number of Jews, in spite of the tremendous difficulties...we owe our lives solely to the efforts of Director Schindler and his humane treatment of his workers. - testimonial letter at the end of the war from the 1200 men and women saved from the Holocaust by Oskar Schindler.

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YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The Baha Mar bombshell

Baha Mar, fraught with controversy from day one, is bordering on becoming known as a failed experiment.

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A YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The tiefin’ at the heart of our society

EVERY time Auditor General Terrance Bastian and his team releases a damning report, I become more and more convinced that we live in a society where “tiefin”, in one form or another, has become the order of the day. To use a phrase I heard bandied about this week, “we don’t need no VAT, we need a moratorium on ‘tiefin’!”

500% consumer credit explosion ‘a tragedy’

A well-known businessman has warned that the near-500 per cent increase in Bahamian consumer debt over the past two decades is undermining “nation building” and fuelling “irrational behaviour” by borrowers.

Sarkis wants probe into CCA’s ‘highly irregular expenses’

Baha Mar’s ex-president yesterday demanded a probe into its contractor’s “highly irregular expenses” claims. and branded its behaviour as “all the more extraordinary” given that it knew in advance the $3.5 billion project was unlikely to meet its March 27, 2015, opening.

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Criminals

According to the state, our sons are criminals. Our daughters are not mentioned, but our sons are being made criminals because we give them everything they want and we do not supervise them.

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Super Value chief blasts 80% share claim as 'garbage'

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Super Value owner Rupert Roberts yesterday blasted claims that his impending acquisition of City Markets' remaining store locations would give him an 80 per cent market share as "garbage" and "total rubbish", tell

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Physician gives evidence as man accused of killing mother

THE trial of a man accused of killing his elderly mother was underway in the Supreme Court yesterday, with a physician, who confirmed Princess Butler’s death, giving evidence.