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Baha Mar liquidators decline extension for Breezes land transfer

BAHA Mar’s secured creditor wanted liquidators to remain in place until the land swap with SuperClubs Breezes is completed - a request they were reluctant to comply with.

Board delayed water contract for 14 months

A master plan to solve New Providence’s wastewater woes was delayed for 14 months after the then-Water & Sewerage Corporation Board sought a “sole-source award” of the contract, Tribune Business can reveal.

ALICIA WALLACE: Honestly, it’s no sin choosing to live alone

There is, quite possibly, nothing more blissful than living alone. Everything is where you left it, you have the quiet time you need when you get in from a long day, the bed is all yours, and no one is making your bills even higher.

Talking about gangs and social breakdown

This piece is derived from extensive research around gang violence, civil society participation and systemic failure. It points to some obvious problems that so far, have been ignored and thus the problem has been allowed if not encouraged to grow.

ERIC WIBERG: The last flight of a Marauder

On October 17, 1944, five years into World War II, a B-26 Marauder aircraft assigned to the Royal Air Force Transport Command took off from the Windsor Field.

STATESIDE: While Biden tries to appear as ‘labour’s best friend’ Trump seems to lose favour

ONE year from this morning, we’ll know who the Democratic and Republican party nominees are in a presidential election contest that will then only be six weeks away. And we’ll know if a third-party candidate or candidates have emerged to challenge America’s deeply entrenched two-party political duopoly.

Port sets July record on container volumes

Nassau’s commercial shipping port set a July record after container imports increased by more than 20 percent with its top executive yesterday confirming business volumes have rebounded to pre-COVID levels.

City Markets: 'Stuck' $3.5m deal holds-up staff payout

City Markets workers have yet to receive their severance pay and benefits because the $3.5 million sale of the former supermarket chain’s leasehold interests has still to formally conclude, Tribune Business was told yesterday.

Passion shrunk at Love Beach

Love Beach residents last night hailed the planning authorities for “hearing our voices” after they imposed restrictions that cut three storeys off a prominent Bahamian developer’s project.

Airport's $14m loss 'not major concern'

Nassau’s airport operator says its latest $14.153m net loss, and $56.5m total deficit, is “not a significant concern” as it continues to meet all payments on its $500m-plus debt.The Nassau Airport Development Company (NAD), in e-mailed replies to Tri

STATESIDE: The geopolitical competition between the US and Russia

WHEN considering what’s been going on in Eastern Europe for the past four weeks, an old saying comes to mind. “You’re not paranoid if they’re really out to get you.”

STATESIDE: Are we really staring into the abyss again?

The sabres are certainly rattling in Eastern Europe these days. Americans, and doubtless millions of flabbergasted others around the world, are beginning to wonder if a bitter regional war is about to break out in Ukraine that will gradually suck in others and we will find ourselves in World War III.

THE PETER YOUNG COLUMN: Can Assange’s actions be justified? Not in my book

The sudden news of the arrest in London of the co-founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, not surprisingly hit the headlines last week.

A COMIC'S VIEW: As usual, our leaders leave us with more questions than answers

Another week, and more questions than answers from our government on many fronts.

Breezes chief: Baha Mar price fears 'a distraction'

SuperClubs Breezes’ owner yesterday branded concerns over Baha Mar’s rate discounting as “a distraction”, warning: “We’ll all go hungry if we don’t expand airlift.”John Issa told Tribune Business that the Nassau/Paradise Island resort industry “can’t

Super Value: 131% fee rise 'big pill to swallow'

Super Value’s owner has described the impending 131 per cent increase in its annual Business Licence fee to $3 million as “a big pill to swallow”, and fears it will increase the cost of living.

Perfect service to last generations

By Scott Farrington

VAT economists get early May target

The Tax Coalition’s newly-hired economists will start work this week, with one of its co-chairs yesterday suggesting it would be impossible for the Government to implement Value-Added Tax (VAT) in the face of widespread private sector opposition.

Investigator denies ‘sweethearting’

A POLICE investigator has been accused of ‘sweethearting’ with a woman who reportedly resided at Yorkshire Drive where a decomposed body was found behind an apartment complex, the Marco Archer murder trial heard.

Report on crime

Report on crime IN today's Insight, we present the official report on crime prepared by noted psychiatrist Dr David Allen. Some findings from this report were first published in The Tribune on March 30, 2012. Dr David F Allen M.D., M.P.H. USING a clin

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