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PASSING OF A PLP FIREBRAND: Bradley Roberts dies after sudden collapse at home
BRADLEY Roberts, former Progressive Liberal Party chairman and Cabinet minister, 74, died suddenly yesterday at his home where he collapsed and could not be revived.
DIANE PHILLIPS: Prime Minister, please keep your eye on the prize
EVERY prime minister in recent Bahamian history has faced what at some hour must have felt like a Sisyphean mountain to climb. Hubert Ingraham had a hurricane named Andrew. Perry Christie had a deluge of crime and debt. Dr Hubert Minnis had a double blow, Dorian and COVID.
Sir Stafford is the father of banking
Former attorney general and financial services and investments minister in the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) administration of former Prime Minister Perry Christie, Allyson Maynard-Gibson, has informed The Nassau Tribune that she has started her very own blog.
NHI ‘doomed to fail’ without doctor buy-in
Senior physicians have warned the Government that its National Health Insurance (NHI) initiative is “doomed to fail”, unless it substitutes “domination and dogma” for an approach that permits industry stakeholders to buy in to the scheme.
Crisis at the Rand Hospital highlights critical power issues
Ricardo Wells sees and hears for himself the overwhelming needs in Grand Bahama . . .
INSIGHT: Voter dissonance as the honeymoon ends
ON day 102 of the Minnis Administration’s tenure in governance, there is a growing feeling of voter dissonance throughout the country. No longer are they seen as the rockstars some crowned them to be on May 10, after the dust settled on their easily won battle – even though their win was secured because the Bahamian people desperately wanted the PLP gone.
Estate agency launches iPad app to showcase Bahamas property
LOCAL real estate company HG Christie Ltd has announced the launch of a real estate iPad app that will showcase Bahamian properties to the world.
TOUGH CALL: Deafening silence in face of the roaring storm
THE response of the government and its emergency management agency to the recent smashing of the southern islands by Hurricane Joaquin has been astonishingly lacking in at least one important respect – the provision of public information.
‘Unforgivable’ for CCA to hide Baha Mar opening miss
An ex-Baha Mar director yesterday slammed as “unforgivable” the failure by its contractor to warn that the planned March 27, 2015, opening would be missed, arguing that an early confession could have avoided the project’s meltdown.
Gov’t rescues CLICO policies at ‘11th hour’
The Prime Minister may have prevented the cancellation of medical insurance for hundreds of Bahamians yesterday by confirming the Government has finally approved a ‘rescue plan’ for CLICO (Bahamas).
Fleeing the fire
RESIDENTS in Jubilee Gardens were forced to evacuate their homes yesterday after a massive fire at the New Providence landfill blanketed the community in thick, black hazardous smoke.
Baha Mar ‘fumes’: Govt eyes local landfill solution
The Government was last night leaning towards a Bahamian consortium as its best hope for resolving the New Providence landfill’s woes, amid growing pressure from Baha Mar’s new owner to deal with the fumes and associated health hazards.
200 march to PM's office in protest
MOVED to action primarily because of the ongoing issues plaguing the New Providence Landfill and surrounding areas, about 200 We March Bahamas protesters marched to the Office of the Prime Minister yesterday, calling on the nation’s leader to “bring some resolution” to their concerns.
South Ocean disposal eyed for January end
The sales process for New Providence’s South Ocean resort is expected to conclude next month, with the Government said to be pressurising its Canadian pension fund owner to accept a New York developer’s “incredibly good offer”.
Famous magician pays $2.2m owed property tax
A world-renowned magician/illusionist paid $2.235m in outstanding real property taxes to the Government within 24 hours of the Chief Justice branding him "evasive" in a verdict that found the monies were owing.
Baha Mar’s expat hires told to leave
Baha Mar has told several expatriate hires to leave the Bahamas because construction delays mean there are no jobs for them to step into, amid suggestions it is seeking additional financing to complete the $3.5 billion project.
‘No way’ Freeport can bear two sets of taxes
There is “no way” that Freeport businesses could pay two sets of taxes, a senior private sector executive yesterday urging the Government to “definitely” renew the city’s expiring investment incentives until 2054.
Don’t make Moody’s a ‘political football’
The Bahamas will have “no one to blame but ourselves” if Moody’s follows through with its threat of a potential ‘junk’ downgrade, the Chamber of Commerce’s chief executive yesterday urging all politic
D’Aguilar: Baha Mar deal may hit Atlantis ‘viability’
A key Sarkis Izmirlian ally yesterday expressed fears that Atlantis’s “commercial viability” could be undermined if the Baha Mar agreement paves the way for China to dominate the Bahamian hotel industry.
CWC: 'No major problems' with Gov't over BTC
The Bahamas Telecommunications Company's (BTC) majority owner yesterday said it did not "anticipate significant problems" with the newly-elected Progressive Liberal Pa