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Gov’t in $45m deal for Harbour Island
A $45 million Harbour Island resort development is expected to create 150 construction jobs and 70 permanent posts, it was revealed yesterday.
Man who slapped coworker ordered to keep the peace for a year
An ABACO man who slapped his coworker during an argument on the job was yesterday ordered to keep the peace for one year.
Melia Nassau Beach to close for two years
Baha Mar today announced its Melia Nassau Beach resort will close for two years to undergo a $100m renovation, which will result in several hundred more hotel workers losing their jobs.
Baha Mar's new leaders
ONE hundred and fifty students will participate in the first graduation exercise for Baha Mar’s Leadership Development Institute (LDI), a non-profit training institute supported by the luxury resort, next week.
‘Local workers can’t get work ahead of foreigners’
A GROUP of Central Andros residents have expressed frustration over alleged unfair hiring practices on the island, saying local workers cannot get any jobs because contractors are hiring foreigners instead.
Gov't 'concerned' on trained labour
THE Government is concerned there are not enough trained persons to capitalise on the 8,000 jobs expected to be created in the next two years, when the $2.6 billion Baha Mar project is completed, the Minister of Education, Science and Technology has said.
AML 'stops counting' at 2,000 resumes for 90 jobs
AML Foods yesterday told Tribune Business it had “stopped counting” after receiving over 2,000 applications for the 90 jobs that will be created when its Solomon’s Fresh Market store at Harbour Bay opens before Christmas, the situation highlighting why proposed Employment Act reforms should be shelved.
AsiaMart clients to 'take up 75%' of GB hotel capacity
AsiaMart clients to 'take up 75%' of GB hotel capacity By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor The proposed merchant trade market for Freeport will "take up" 75 per cent of Grand Bahama's existing hotel room inventory, one of its directors implying it
EDITORIAL: Who pays the salary of those given jobs to vote?
IN the House of Assembly last week newly elected Long Island MP Adrian Gibson accused the former Christie administration of putting at least 40 persons onto government’s payroll just two weeks before the May 10 election to influence the vote. One of the 40 was hired just the day before the election.
10 YEARS OF THE iPHONE: Apple proved a phone can change the world
Few people realised it at the time, but the world shifted fundamentally a decade ago when Steve Jobs pulled the first iPhone from Apple’s bag of technological tricks.
YOU GO GIRL: Jaleal spreads optimism via new platform for Bahamian workers
If you take a moment to look around you right now, you will probably find a world in chaos, contending with an uncertain future. And it’s no different here in the Bahamas. The global outbreak of coronavirus and its aftermath have left many Bahamians without jobs, and worse, without hope. A feeling of optimism is hard to come by.
Disney urged not to kill Eleuthera 'golden goose'
One Eleuthera Foundation (OEF) CEO Shaun Ingraham characterised Disney’s proposal for Lighthouse Point as “killing the golden goose” as he defended the non-governmental organisation’s proposal for “responsible development”. Mr Ingraham insisted the “
At 9.5%, jobless total at lowest level for 10 years, says Turnquest
FINANCE Minister Peter Turnquest said while the government is pleased the national unemployment rate has dropped to 9.5 percent, its goal is to drive numbers even lower by securing stronger and more broad based growth for the economy. The ministry s
BTC job loss fears on $24m saving plan
Fears of further job losses at the Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) were raised last night due to the planned imposition of a new “centralised” business model, which will help its controlling shareholder realise a further $24 million cost saving.
‘No way on God’s green earth’ can Gov’t operate NHI
There is “no way on God’s green earth” that the Government can hope to run an efficient National Health Insurance (NHI) system given its “disastrous” track record, an outspoken businessman has warned.
Bahamas 6.7% tourism growth to lead region
The Bahamian tourism industry will generate the greatest GDP and employment growth of all Caribbean destinations in 2015, a global travel body has forecast, despite Baha Mar’s decision to postpone Friday’s planned opening until May.
Labour ‘limits employer tricks’
A top official yesterday said the Department of Labour had “significantly limited the tricks” used by employers to deny Bahamians jobs in preference to foreigners, slamming some tourism and financial services work permit applications as “ridiculous”.
The Bank of the Bahamas has reached the end
FROM where I stand, it seems that the Bank of Bahamas has reached the end.
Bank outsourcing: Middle class on ‘unstable footing’
The continued outsourcing of financial services jobs is placing the Bahamian middle class “on a very unstable footing”, the Opposition’s labour spokesman saying yesterday: “I don’t know how we’re going to arrest this.”
Early 2024 start to protect Junkanoo Beach’s $8.2m
Nassau harbour’s breakwaters will suffer “total failure” if not repaired, it was revealed yesterday, with additional shoreline protection works required to protect Junkanoo Beach’s $8.2m impact and 150 jobs.