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Wreck salvage 'disillusion' on year-long approval delay

The Government’s failure to comply with its own legislation has left wreck salvagers and their financiers “frustrated and disillusioned with the Bahamas”, and could cost this nation both its heritage and a multi-million dollar industry.

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YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: The problem with contractors

THERE appears to be a proliferation of Bahamian contractors who are downright shysters, daily engaging in deceptive business practices.

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YOUNG MAN'S VIEW: Talk is cheap but crime is exacting a heavy price

SOME time ago, I said that The Bahamas is a powder keg. Today, I believe in that statement even more than I did then. Our society is imploding and we have reached the point of absolute crisis. There is no other description for the criminality and mayhem happening around us on a daily basis.

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President Obama's immigration address

The issue of immigration has been making front page news recently both here in the Bahamas and in the United States. Last Thursday, President Barack Obama took the debate to a new level, when he introduced controversial new policies for the US. Here is his address in full:

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$25m project to outsource Road Traffic Department

A Bahamian-led investor group says its revised $25m proposal to transform the Road Traffic Department and "bring The Bahamas up to international standards" will create 300 new jobs if approved.

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SANNIE Vs RENALDO: NFL PICKS WEEK 6

RENALDO: Thursday night football is an awful product. Everyone knows it’s an awful product, and you never forget to set your fantasy lineup in time.

NIB report blastedas 'very sloppy job'

The National Insurance Board’s (NIB) former chairman yesterday blasted the Grant Thornton forensic audit as “a very sloppy job”, adding that it would have been impossible for him to use his position to gain a competitive advantage for Bahamas First.

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PLP promises ‘pie in the sky’

FORMER Progressive Liberal Party MP Philip Galanis yesterday said the country has got worse over the past three years under Prime Minister Perry Christie’s leadership, adding that the nation’s leader has some questions to answer as to how he can make things better.

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BUN IN THE OVEN: Why I put my kids on a detox

I love technology. I’m an iPhone, iPad kind of girl; sorry Android lovers! Nothing allows me the sense of freedom like my device. If I feel like redecorating or trying out a new recipe, within seconds I’m browsing, searching and connecting to programmes that allow me to be inspired and get creative.

Financial profligacy leaves Bahamas at FDI investor mercy

Bahamian financial profligacy has left this nation at the mercy of foreign developers whose increasing demands for Government concessions are “contrary to the interest of the Bahamas”, a well-known businessman believes.

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Removing the stress, creating the magic

ANY couple tasked with planning their own wedding can attest to the fact that there is a certain level of stress that comes along with the process.

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Buddy Hield leads Sooners to final four

For the second consecutive year, the NCAA Men's Division I Tournament will feature a Bahamian player amidst the Final Four of "March Madness".

Deception, deflection and deceipt

It boggles my mind to no end the direction this country is headed.

Sarkis’s letter shows breakthrough on Baha Mar ‘not imminent’

Sarkis Izmirlian’s letter to his former 2,026 Baha Mar staff shows there is no “imminent” breakthrough likely in the impasse over the $3.5 billion project, a senior private sector executive believes.

‘Get Freeport back to work’

A former Grand Bahama Port Authority (GBPA) in-house attorney yesterday urged the Government to renew Freeport’s expiring tax incentives immediately, arguing: “Let’s get the island back to work.”

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Mother of Bahamian who died in Haiti slams ministry

THE mother of Christopher Adderley, a Bahamian man who died in custody in Haiti last September, believes her son would still be alive if Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials had “listened to her and done their job” instead of ignoring her pleas for help.

IDB: Baha Mar to up jobless rate 2%

The Bahamas’ unemployment rate will jump by as much as two percentage points due to the 2,000 Baha Mar lay-offs, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is predicting, virtually eliminating the May 2015 decrease.

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$55,000 raised by Butler-Turner for hurricane relief

THE efforts Long Island MP Loretta Butler-Turner has made to rebuild her island following Hurricane Joaquin “absolutely” demonstrates the kind of “strong, dedicated leadership” of which the country needs more.

QC slams selection of Bimini as ‘model PPP’

An outspoken QC has slammed the selection of Bimini as a model tourism public-private partnership (PPP), arguing that the Resorts World project was “completely divorced from a harmonious relationship” with local Bahamians.