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Govt ‘likely’ to pay Baha Mar wages

ACTING Attorney General Damian Gomez said yesterday “there is a likelihood” the government will pay the salaries of Baha Mar’s Bahamian employees for the work period that ends today.

BCPOU President Bernard Evans wins a third term

BAHAMAS Communications and Public Officers Union President Bernard Evans is now set to serve a third term as union president after narrowly beating-out his former Secretary General Dino Rolle for the post.

PLP Chairman blasts Baha Mar director over ‘inflammatory remarks against govt’

PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts yesterday accused Baha Mar Director and businessman Diosinio D’Aguilar of putting thousands of resort employees at risk due to his “inflammatory remarks”, “creating confusion, making inflammatory remarks against the government and placing thousands of jobs in jeopardy.”

Immigration policy kills arbitration

AS LONG ago as 2006, imaginative lawyers like Bar leader Peter Maynard as well as financial executives began encouraging arbitration in the Bahamas.

Tributes are paid to Alfred Bismark Coakley

ALFRED Bismark Coakley, who made a huge contribution in corporate and charitable circles in the Bahamas over many years, died on Sunday in Doctor’s Hospital following a brief illness. He was 73.

SPORTING MISCHIEF & MAYHEM: NFL preview - AFC North and South

WELL the countdown is on and the NFL season is near. Over the next few weeks I will break down the AFC and NFC conferences division-by-division and who I like to make a playoff run and win the Super Bowl.

Pintard urges responsible comments by government

FNM chairman Michael Pintard yesterday called on government members to be more responsible in their public pronouncements about the Baha Mar project.

AML Foods JV ‘address for the east’

BISX-listed AML Foods yesterday unveiled a joint venture to bring its Solomon’s concept to southeastern New Providence and become “the address in the east”.

‘Gentle giant’ strikes gold

Jeffery Gibson, with his left hand clinched in the air, powered across the finish line at the CIBC Pan Am/Parapan Am Athletics Stadium as he celebrated his gold medal in the men’s 400m hurdles at the 17th Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada.

Ultimate goal to have sailing on every school’s curriculum

In an effort to broaden the scope of sailing among student athletes, the Sports Unit at the Ministry of Education has partnered with the Bahamas Sailing Association to increase the profile of the sport through the summer camp and year-round programmes.

Medical report says Haitian man was shot in back of neck

THE Haitian man shot by a police officer during an immigration exercise last month was shot in the back of the neck, according to a medical report obtained by The Tribune.

Sports Notes

THE Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture extends congratulations to our newest ‘Golden Girl’, Arianna Vanderpool-Wallace for her outstanding record-breaking gold medal performance at the 2015 Toronto Pan Am Games in the 50m freestyle event.

Roberts blasts Minnis’ Baha Mar ‘babbling’

PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts blasted FNM Leader Dr Hubert Minnis’ national address on the ongoing Baha Mar debacle as “disjointed, embarrassing and incessant babbling.”

INSIGHT: Mission Implausible - Why the Allyson Adventure to China was a desperate and doomed ploy

Richard Coulson insists a Bahamian Chapter 11 procedure is the only way forward for Baha Mar.

Bail for man accused of gun and ammunition smuggling

A MAN has been granted bail ahead of his gun and ammunition smuggling trial in Magistrate’s Court scheduled in November.

BOC sets record straight on Pan Am Games athletics team

WHILE there’s conflicting reports on who will be allowed to compete on the athletics team at the 17th Pan American Games, Bahamas Olympic Committee vice president Robert Butler said they have not gotten any report of any competitor who will have to be removed from the team that is heading to Toronto, Canada, this weekend.

Baha Mar-style institute urged to boost workforce

The Bahamian private sector is being “seriously disadvantaged” by the workforce quality it is being presented with, an outspoken businessman yesterday suggesting this nation needs a leadership development institute similar to that created by Baha Mar.

Why Baha Mar filed for bankruptcy

Robert ‘Sandy’ Sands explains why Baha Mar sought protection in a foreign court

WE all have times when what seems to be one thing turns out, with a deeper understanding, to be something very different.

Bahamian contractors willing to save Baha Mar

AFTER sitting at the negotiating table into the wee hours of a Beijing morning, the Bahamas government delegation was on its way home last night with little good news of the fate of the $3.5 billion Baha Mar resort.

Gibson sets new national record in 400 metre hurdles

FOR the third time in his career, Jeffery Gibson has lowered his own mark to set a new national record in the 400 metre hurdles.

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