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‘High time’ to find Stella Maris buyer at $11.75m

A LONG Island resort’s principal yesterday said “it’s high time to put it in the hands” of an owner able to take it to four-five star status once the $11.75m asking price is met.

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Gibson’s lawyer cross examines Cargill-Sherman focusing on her claim of being terminated

TESTIMONY continued in the criminal trial of Long Island MP Adrian Gibson and his co-accused yesterday, with a defence attorney attacking a witness’ claim that she was “terminated” from a senior position within the Water & Sewerage Corporation.

Merchant’s remote shift ends 50-year retail era

A Bahamian merchant has shuttered its retail store after more than 50 years in business as part of a restructuring that now sees it providing reduced services remotely.

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Govt and RCI sign HOA for $165m Beach Club

THE Davis administration and Royal Caribbean International (RCI) signed a Heads of Agreement yesterday to develop RCI’s $165m Royal Beach Club Paradise Island.

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Sentence delayed for man who stabbed banker he claims made a pass at him

A MAN must wait an additional seven weeks before he is sentenced for the fatal stabbing of a banker he claimed had made a sexual pass at him.Lamar Albury, 26, was due before Senior Justice Vera Watkins for the penalty phase of his trial yesterday con

Galleria downsizes with JFK's closure

Galleria Cinemas yesterday confirmed it will close its JFK Drive location permanently this Thursday, suggesting the move - driven by economic and industry conditions - would impact five jobs at most.Chris Mortimer, Galleria’s president, told Tribune

Breezes 'ready to start' again on 50% expansion

SuperClubs Breezes owner yesterday said he was “ready to start again” on the Cable Beach resort’s expansion plans, adding that its ‘land swap’ agreement with Baha Mar should be completed in the next few months.John Issa, told Tribune Business: “We ha

Minnis’s Baha Mar position ‘disgraceful’

A Cabinet Minister yesterday slammed Dr Hubert Minnis’s pledge to find a new purchaser for Baha Mar as “disgraceful”, arguing that it would disrupt employment for hundreds of Bahamians.

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Minister promises to address govt building repairs

MINISTER of Works Desmond Bannister visited several government buildings on Grand Bahama last week and promised to address urgent repairs at the post office building and the Garnet Levarity Justice Centre in Freeport.He also toured the new fire stati

Data highlights social ills in inner-cities

RESIDENTS’ lack of education in the inner-city and high unemployment levels were highlighted as key social ills that continue to plague the Over-the-Hill community as the government moves closer to rejuvenating these impoverished areas. Data contain

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GAIN AN EDGE: How service and extracurricular activity can help job seekers

Employers are looking for interests beyond the classroom in potential recruits so the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute is providing help . . .

MEDITATION: Endangered species

WHEN we think of our beautiful country with its turquoise waters, we should immediately think of preservation and conservation in the midst of economic expansion and development. We have many visitors to our shores and they need to be properly instructed, as we should have been from birth, to protect that which has been entrusted to us by God.

Buzzing for a new career in beekeeping

THIRTY people are one step closer to becoming bee-keepers, having completed a two-day introductory bee-keeping workshop and are now preparing to move on to the advanced training segment of the Youth Apiary Programme.

EDITORIAL: Why powers must be separated

TO many foreign observers, the ugly spectacle of the current US Senate nomination hearings for the Supreme Court being shamelessly politicised yet again makes a mockery of America’s democracy.

ART OF GRAPHIX: Drawing the line on good design

Do I have to draw well to be a good designer? This is one of the most frequent questions designers always ask of me, and the main reason people give for not being a designer or any type.I have witnessed designers who have created terrible sketches bu

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‘Don’t just call killers monsters, bring them to justice’

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party Leader Philip “Brave” Davis said National Security Minister Marvin Dames has to do more than just call the gunmen behind last week’s mass shooting “cowards” and “monsters”, but must “promise to bring them to justice”.

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Union chief brands mandatory shot as ‘going back to 1942’

A trade union leader yesterday compared forcing Bahamian workers to take the COVID-19 vaccine as a condition of their continued employment to “taking us back to 1942” and the Burma Road riots.

Disney urged: Help Bahamas to escape ‘neocolonial tourism’

A well-known Eleuthera school’s founder is urging Disney to help The Bahamas escape “neocolonial tourism” by converting its Lighthouse Point cruise destination into a sustainable “land and sea park”.

Second phase of Sweeting’s Cay repairs underway

PHASE Two of the Sweeting’s Cay Home Repair Project is underway to repair 14 homes damaged during Hurricane Dorian two years ago.

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PI beach access closed for $250m condo-hotel plan

The Ocean Club’s owner last night said it had closed a popular access route to Paradise Island’s Cabbage Beach out of “safety concerns” as it prepares to begin construction on a $250m condominium-hotel project.