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‘Banner-breaking’ 38% visitor rise in Eleuthera
Eleuthera has followed a “banner-breaking” December for stopover visitors with a 38 percent year-over-year increase in such arrivals for 2023’s first two months, it was revealed yesterday.
KERZNER FORECLOSE WOULD COST $230M
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor Some $230 million in costs would be incurred just to foreclose on Kerzner International's Paradise Island properties, a Delaware judge questioning why Brookfield Asset Management should be the only one to potentia
CEASE AND DESIST: Judge delivers damning ruling on govt’s shanty town demolition actions
THE government was banned yesterday from further demolishing shanty town structures across Abaco after a Supreme Court judge rejected its bid to have the island’s shanty towns removed as beneficiaries of a standing injunction centred on demolition of unregulated communities.
Eleuthera men charged with marijuana stuck in Nassau
WHEN police brought Cordell Evans from Eleuthera to New Providence in a boat last month, the 20-year-old bumped his head during the ride and suffered a seizure so severe his friend began to cry, thinking he would die at sea.
Wildcat action shuts airports
AIRPORT operations on several Family Islands were severely affected yesterday after more than a dozen airport employees refused to show up to work in protest of unresolved workplace grievances.
INSIGHT: A season of goodwill - you can’t be serious
THE people of Long Island awoke on Christmas Day with a present from Haiti!
Club Med 'targets' December return
Club Med has reiterated that the "target date" for re-opening its San Salvador resort remains December 2021 in the wake of its move to terminate between 180-190 workers.
First vaccines for key staff
THE country’s most vulnerable population, including medical workers, will be among the first to receive a COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available, Health Minister Renward Wells said Monday, as he revealed the government will have to pay an initial $2m down payment to secure 80,000 vaccinations.
Acklins man blames neglect after he catches Zika virus
CONTRACTING the deadly Zika virus has capped months of “neglect” and “very little” action by Department of Environmental Health officials in Acklins, according to an island resident who called the government’s anti-Zika campaign there a “disgrace”.
ANALYSIS: Extreme wind threat to Nassau as Matthew gathers strength
HURRICANE Matthew will move northwest through the Bahamas on Wednesday and Thursday, with the dangerous right front quadrant with the highest winds likely to affect the most populous island in the archipelago on Thursday morning.
2019 Bahamas Hurricane Shelters list
Prepare for Hurricane Dorian.
YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Waiting for Superman
POLITICS anywhere is a grimy, gritty business that is full of deceit and hypocrisy.
THE FINISH LINE: Why do we have a new national stadium that isn’t available for our best athletes to compete?
IT’S not how you start, nor how you get there. Most importantly, it’s how you finish.
PI project concern over ‘compelling opportunity’
A senior Atlantis executive yesterday warned that concerns over Royal Caribbean’s Paradise Island project could harm downtown Nassau’s revival and “the most compelling real estate opportunity in The Bahamas” if not resolved.
PM blasts 'blinkered' officials' tax attitude
The Prime Minister yesterday slammed "blinkered" public officials for adopting inflexible approaches to the collection of outstanding taxes that "close the business" and hinder economic growth and productivity.
Royal Caribbean scouts Rum Cay
Royal Caribbean’s top executive has confirmed the cruise giant sent a team to scout a potential new destination on Rum Cay, saying: “You can never have enough great product.”
Resort proprietor targets 60 jobs in two-hotel expansion
A Bahamian resort entrepreneur is aiming to double his total workforce by 60 jobs through the launch of two new boutique properties by year-end 2026.
Tourism chief: ‘Step up our game’ over vaccination roll-out
A senior Ministry of Tourism executive yesterday urged the Bahamas to “step up its game” on the COVID-19 vaccination roll-out over fears its Caribbean rivals are outpacing it.
Multi-billion group ‘very interested’ in Bahamas
A multi-billion dollar corporation yesterday said it was “very, very interested” in supplying liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Bahamas-based power generators, suggesting “substantial” economic and environmental benefits could result.
Water Corp 'aggressively' targets $45m deadbeats
The Water & Sewerage Corporation is aiming to cover 100 per cent of its expenses by 2020, as it “aggressively” pursues deadbeat customers owing more than $45 million.