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Bahamas suffers 76% FDI fall-off

The Bahamas suffered a 76 per cent year-over-year decline in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2015, as it “tumbled” to its lowest levels in 13 years.

Minor league players make career and season debuts

AS various minor leagues in the MLB system continue their opening weeks, more Bahamian players had the opportunity to make their career and season debuts.

Tech Talk

• LOS ALAMOS, a once secret city where scientists participated in the United States’ classified World War II nuclear development programme, can now be experienced much like it was then with a new app.

Sandals Emerald Bay hosts its 1st Annual Global Golf Tournament

EXUMA, The Bahamas — Sandals Emerald Bay hosted its 1st Annual Global Golf Tournament, attracting top producing travel agents from Canada, South America and the US.

Tax break may help 41,000 homeowners

Prime Minister Perry Christie yesterday said more than 41,000 homeowners could benefit from the Government’s decision to waive real property tax arrears for owner-occupied homes valued at less than $250,000.

Long Island still fights to recover from hurricane

NEARLY eight months after the devastating passage of Hurricane Joaquin, Long Island is still struggling to recover despite the best efforts by those on the ground.

IAN FERGUSON: Public servants must reject this behaviour

We last week encouraged civil servants to strive for excellence, and to promote high working standards in their professional life. Today, we stay in a similar ballpark by addressing the unethical public sector behaviour that must be rejected if we are to rise and advance as a people.

TECH TALK

• AN Australian man long rumoured to be associated with the digital currency Bitcoin has publicly identified himself as its creator, a claim that would end one of the biggest mysteries in the tech world.

US: Bahamas energy challenge ‘not unique’

Washington - The Bahamas’ energy generation woes are not unique to this nation, a senior US diplomat said yesterday, adding that extracting efficiencies from energy infrastructure was “no easy work”.

Judge to decide whether Constitution supreme

“WHO IS that woman?” snarled a Bahamian man with the curl of the lip. That woman happens to be Supreme Court Justice Indira Charles of St Lucia.

Bahamas’ tourism costs 50% higher than near rivals

The Bahamas has been urged by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reduce its tourism industry costs, which are 50 per cent higher than Cuba and some Central American destinations.

Bearing the progressive mantle

Paradoxically, Pastor Cedric Moss is both correct and incorrect. In an Op-Ed published on April 16 in The Nassau Guardian, he wrote that we are having a “dishonest debate” about “gender equality”.

Born to Bahamian father - but dream at risk because of citizenship inequality

BORN in The Bahamas without automatic citizenship, high school senior Kirah Dames’ dreams of playing professional softball have been halted as she watches her peers prepare for opportunities outside the country.

Griffin: We will investigate auditor’s findings

SOCIAL Services Minister Melanie Griffin said further investigations will be conducted into the damning revelations highlighted by Auditor General Terrance Bastian’s report into the Department of Social Services which was tabled in the House of Assembly on Monday.

EDITORIAL: Data Commissioner commended for doing her job

IN THE debate on the recent brazen disclosure of an environmental group’s confidential e-mails on the floor of the House by a government minister, using parliamentary privilege as his cover, the unkindest cut of all got lost in the small print.

‘If Izmirlian is back, who needs their mental health checked now?’

WITH Baha Mar developer Sarkis Izmirlian back in the equation having submitted new proposals to open and complete the resort, Bahamians should now decide who needs a mental check, FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis said yesterday.

Brothers spared death penalty over off-duty police officer murder

TWO brothers were spared the death penalty yesterday by a Supreme Court judge who found that the circumstances surrounding the murder of an off-duty police officer did not meet the London-based Privy Council’s “worst of the worst” threshold set out in the Maxo Tido case.

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