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‘WE BROUGHT IT ON OURSELVES’: Families rush to stock up for urgent GB lockdown many accept must happen
GRAND Bahamians rushed out to grocery stores yesterday morning just after Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced a two-week lockdown starting this week in response to the virulent spread of COVID-19 infections on the island.
Health minister 'has not lived up to union's expectations'
BAHAMAS Doctors Union President Dr Melisande Bassett yesterday said Health Minister Dr Duane Sands has not lived up to the union’s “expectations”, urging the minister to be more “concerned” about junior doctors.
Victims of brain injury given a voice
The National Brain Injury Foundation celebrates launch
Don’t text and drive, don’t drink and drive, wear a helmet, control your hypertension and stress. These statements may all seem like such cliché directives – directives which are often ignored until there is a collision or sudden rupture in the brain. And then instantly these cliché statements unfortunately turn into “If only he or she had or had not…”
Central Bank’s ‘inclusion’ aid for politically exposed
The Central Bank is moving to ensure politically exposed persons (PEPs) are “not excluded” from the Bahamian banking system by making scrutiny of them “more client friendly”.
Cannabis products? Everybody wants them, says Sands
“EVERYBODY wants it,” is how Health Minister Dr Duane Sands described the boom in cannabis-derived products hitting shelves locally.
Auto industry to 'pick up steam' through tax cut
Auto dealers yesterday said the industry is poised to “pick up steam” as a result of tax cuts that will give Bahamian consumers “more choice and better prices” from July 1.
Women who chose to lead
According to many, women should know their place - and that is not to be in the public sphere. They must be submissive and allow men to be men.
It's now time for Bahamian society to heal itself
THE Bahamas has lost its moral fibre, a Bahamian recently remarked. He wanted to know whether we agreed, and, if so, when did we first notice it.
VAT revisions can 'cripple business'
The proposed Value-Added Tax (VAT) assessment process could “potentially cripple a business” if has to pay an inaccurate sum to the Treasury for months, creating a “huge potential injustice”.
Cautioned urged over excessive use of 'toxic' products
By ALESHA CADET
Condemns promotion of immodesty at carnival
ALTHOUGH the g-string clad beauties who come with the controversial Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival, did not shock PLP chairman Bradley Roberts, the remarks of the eye-brow raising president of the Bahamas Christian Council certainly did.
The Bahamas is no long Number One in tourism
TODAY Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe thinks that the US’s lifting of the embargo on Cuba provides an “excellent” opportunity for the Bahamas to “focus on improving the quality of our tourism produce”.
Bahamians lost real Junkanoo many years ago
IF EVER there was a Bahamian who has his heart rooted in Junkanoo, it is Prime Minister Christie, who never misses an opportunity to show off his Junkanoo shuffle. A founding member of the Valley Boys Junkanoo group, the ker-lick of the cowbells and beat of the goat skin drums seem to put a renewed vigour in his step.
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.
Decades-old systems hit fiscal reporting deadlines
The Government’s fiscal transparency drive has burdened decades-old accounting and payroll systems with legally-mandated reporting deadlines they are not equipped to meet, a top official is asserting.
Disaster of Hatchet Bay could be repeated
SANDALS Resorts International, although admitting that Sandals Emerald Bay in Exuma is “facing severe difficulty in continuing operations because of the multitude of high cost” associated with operating on a Family Island, still believes that these islands are the future for Bahamian tourism.
WORLD VIEW: Austerity leads to aid being cut off
AUSTERITY budgets throughout Europe, and Government cuts on welfare spending, have caused many people to argue that aid allocations to foreign countries should be reduced and the money spent on domestic needs.
Property tax challenge deadline is ‘too tight’
Realtors yesterday said today’s deadline for challenging 2022 real property tax billings is “too tight” because appraisers have been overwhelmed by clients requesting valuations of their real estate.
‘Come clean’: $232m loan made lawful retroactively
The Opposition yesterday demanded the Government “come clean” over its $232.3m IMF special drawing rights (SDRs) borrowing after reforms were tabled in Parliament to retroactively make the transaction lawful.