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‘Don’t build financial services on crypto’

FTX’s collapse into provisional liquidation is a warning that The Bahamas should “not build the whole financial services recovery” on digital assets, a prominent Bahamian accountant said yesterday.

Haitians will punish the PLP

IF you would have asked me a month ago who I thought would win the general election, I would have told you the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP). Perry G Christie and his so-called new PLP looked poised

Serious crime down by 26%

SERIOUS crimes in The Bahamas declined by 26 per cent in 2016, the most significant year-to-year drop since 2004, Police Commissioner Ellison Greenslade revealed yesterday.

EDITORIAL: A ‘boogeyman’ chasing ‘Brave’ Davis?

SPEAKING at a PLP town hall meeting last Monday, Deputy Prime Minister Philip “Brave” Davis warned his listeners that the return of former deputy prime minister Brent Symonette to frontline politics was proof that the FNM was now representing the interests of the “Bay Street Boys” – not that of the people.

Don't let the scale fool you: Why you could still be at risk for diabetes

(THE CONVERSATION) – Type 2 diabetes has reached epidemic proportions, with an estimated 29 million people in the US having the disease and another 86 million considered prediabetic. With an estimated cost of $245 billion, prevention becomes critica

WORLD VIEW: CARICOM Summit needs to excite the imagination

I WISH I could say that “all eyes are on the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting to be held from 4 to 6 July in Jamaica”. But, CARICOM events have long since ceased to hold excitement for the people of the 15-member community. They hardly get a glance these days.

WORLD VIEW – Prepare for a long haul: The storm is not fully formed

COVID-19 is destroying the prosperity which several Caribbean countries anticipated at the beginning of 2020.

Bimini to go under full lockdown

Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis has announced that Bimini will be under a full lockdown starting from Monday.

Cable and Gov’t hit by $41m Aliv losses

Aliv’s near-$41m loss for the year to end-June 2021 continues to drag on both its BISX-listed parent and the Government, just-released financial statements reveal.

Medical marijuana - why are we waiting?

FORMER Minister of State for Legal Affairs Damian Gomez yesterday called the government’s position on medical marijuana “ludicrous” and “illogical” given the medicinal use of derivatives from other scheduled drugs like cocaine and opium.

Govt: Tax won’t ‘disrupt’ vacation rentals market

The government yesterday pledged “not to disrupt” the booming vacation rental market as it confirmed plans to impose taxation on the sector in the upcoming 2019-2020 fiscal year.

CULTURE CLASH: Tackling the abuse of online harassment

“Talkin’ to people bad” is the Bahamian way. That’s what they want us to believe. We play into the narrative that to be Bahamian is to be abrasive, rude, and condescending without second thought, apology, or recompense. We imagine that adulthood give

Bank's equity investors see 60.7% income drop

Bank of the Bahamas International’s shareholders have seen a 60.7 per cent decline in net income available to them from the 2012 financial year, largely due to increases in preference share dividends and loan loss provisions.

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.

Crime and granting of bail

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Lawyer claims expert tried to 'flam' jury

KOFHE Goodman’s attorney yesterday suggested to a crime scene investigator that she was trying to “flam” the jury with her claims about the handling of items collected from the scene where a body, believed to be of a male, was found in bushes behind an apartment.

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