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Gov’t targets early Club Med re-open
The Government was yesterday said to be working with Club Med in a bid to ensure its San Salvador resort re-opens earlier than late 2022 and sparks “a 180-degree turn” in the island’s economy.
Tourism relief: Biden doesn’t kill Christmas
The Bahamian tourism industry yesterday voiced relief that the US chose not to impose harsher COVID border restrictions that would have undermined the peak Christmas/New Year season.
'Enact laws to save Bimini's environment'
TWO prominent environmental activists were yesterday up in arms over plans for the further expansion of a key development in Bimini, as they called for the Minnis administration to enact legislation to legally protect that island’s marine habitats.Fr
Matthew delivers ‘gut punch’ to GB
Hurricane Matthew has delivered “a gut punch” to Grand Bahama’s economy, the island’s Chamber of Commerce president said yesterday, delaying its planned turnaround “quite significantly”.
‘Up to 1,000 Grand Bahama hotel staff out of work after Matthew’
GRAND Bahama’s hotel and tourism industries have suffered a huge blow from Hurricane Matthew, which forced the closure of several resort properties on the island, including the two major anchor hotels in Lucaya.
Tourism minister plays down dredging
TOURISM Minister Obie Wilchcombe, Bimini MP, said he is not aware of any environmental degradation that will result from the dredging of the seabed around North Bimini.
FACE TO FACE: A return to Eleuthera to be part of something truly special
WHEN Keyron Smith was a little boy growing up in Eleuthera, he was fascinated by the planes that would fly above his home across the street from the North Eleuthera Airport.
CITY BOWLING LEAGUE
THE most valuable player in City Bowling League competition last night was David Slatter of Telco Enterprises with a 668 high three game set.
BCC too late
Hurricane Joaquin hit our islands five weeks ago with horrific and devastating effects, our God decided that there would be no deaths, but ... the Bahamas Christian Council has not as yet organised a National Celebration of Thanksgiving. They must be waiting for the anniversary in 2016.
New entrance being created for Potter’s Cay Dock
WORK is progressing on the $3.1m redevelopment of Potters’s Cay Dock, with a new entrance off East Bay Street west of the Paradise Island Bridge taking shape.
Two in hospital after shootings, man dies in motorcycle crash
Police are searching for suspects after separate shooting incidents on Friday night and Saturday morning.
Sports notes
MAJOR League Baseball has announced that it will hold a coaching clinic in Nassau - the first of its kind on the island - January 23-24.
Ruining our beaches with garbage
CONCERNS are being raised about rubbish left on Cabbage Beach, Paradise Island, by vendors who use the area by Riu Palace Hotel near the public access road to sell goods and rent umbrellas.
SEVERE WEATHER WARNING
THE BAHAMAS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FROM 1:50PM EDT UNTIL 4:00PM THURSDAY 27TH AUGUST 2015.
Grace becomes Atlantic season's seventh named tropical storm
GRACE, the seventh named tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season, formed on Saturday and is forecast to strengthen over the next 24 hours as it moves west.
US passenger dies during Disney cruise
A SECOND passenger in four days has died while vacationing on a Disney cruise to The Bahamas.
Eleuthera Police station shooting suspects in status hearing
A STATUS hearing was held yesterday for two men scheduled to stand trial in six weeks in connection with a shooting at a Family Island police station.
Boyfriend of murder victim released by police
POLICE have released a man, believed to be the boyfriend of the Long Island woman murdered nearly two weeks ago, from custody, according to Assistant Police Commissioner Anthony Ferguson.
Port Lucaya Marketplace buyer in carnival donation
The potential purchaser of Freeport’s Port Lucaya Marketplace has donated funding to the combined Grand Bahama Carnival Company. The money will be used to develop prototype costumes for next year’s Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival set for May 7-9, 2015.
UPDATED: SEVERE WEATHER WARNING
THE BAHAMAS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UPDATE WITH EFFECT FROM 4:30PM EDT UNTIL 6:30PM MONDAY 18TH AUGUST 2014.