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SUPERVALUE SEES 'DOUBLE, TRIPLE' SALES RISES IN 2012

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor and NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net The Supervalue supermarket chain yesterday indicated it shrugged off fears that consumers are taking longer every year to recover from thei

SUPERVALUE SEES 'DOUBLE, TRIPLE' SALES RISES IN 2012

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor and NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net The Supervalue supermarket chain yesterday indicated it shrugged off fears that consumers are taking longer every year to recover from thei

SUPERVALUE SEES 'DOUBLE, TRIPLE' SALES RISES IN 2012

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor and NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net The Supervalue supermarket chain yesterday indicated it shrugged off fears that consumers are taking longer every year to recover from thei

SUPERVALUE SEES 'DOUBLE, TRIPLE' SALES RISES IN 2012

By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor and NATARIO McKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net The Supervalue supermarket chain yesterday indicated it shrugged off fears that consumers are taking longer every year to recover from thei

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Super Value eyes 6am start to beat lost COVID hours

Super Value's principal says he plans to open the supermarket chain at 6am from today in a bid to reclaim some of the shopping hours lost to the new COVID-19 restrictions.

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Cleanup resumes in Bahamas as Humberto swirls away

MCLEAN'S TOWN, Bahamas (AP) — Jeffrey Roberts lifted a mustard-yellow curtain from the ground to hunt for passports and other documents at the place where his family's home stood before Hurricane Dorian blasted into Grand Bahama Island.

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Golden Eagles shine: Bahamian connection breaking records at Oral Roberts University

For the past few years, head coach Joe Dial said he has been pleased with the improved performances of the Bahamian connection of Golden Eagles athletes at Oral Roberts University.

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Minnis backs Sands’ surgery

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis praised Health Minister Dr Duane Sands as an “exemplary public servant” yesterday, in response to criticism levelled at him for voluntarily performing surgeries while working in government.

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Super Value ends staff ‘sex’ benefit

SUPER VALUE President Rupert Roberts said yesterday the company will discontinue covering enhanced maternity expenses of its employees because an increase in staff pregnancies is affecting the company’s medical fund at a time when there has also been a significant increase in catastrophic care expenses.

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Consumers 'disgruntled' on plastic bag transition

Super Value’s principal yesterday admitted “there are disgruntled customers” over the 25 cent per plastic bag charge, adding that the transition had “not been accepted as I had hoped”. Rupert Roberts, pictured, told Tribune Business: “I would say tha

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A bridge too far

THE bridge connecting Spanish Wells and Russell Island collapsed yesterday affecting water supply and travel between the two islands.

NHI chief 'puzzled' by insurers' stance

The National Health Insurance Authority’s (NHIA) chairman yesterday said he is “puzzled” by the insurance industry’s call for the scheme to set out a “long-term framework” and strategic plan. Dr Robin Roberts told Tribune Business this had already b

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Two-year-old girl in critical condition after she was shot while being held in her grandmother's arms

A FAMILY is desperately appealing for blood donations for a two-year-old girl left in critical condition after she was shot by gunmen in Eleuthera on Saturday night. A relative has identified the child as Da’Nyla Roberts. According to police, offic

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Top Abaco food store to re-open with 40% of staff

Abaco’s main supermarket will re-open “within two weeks” with just over 40 percent of its pre-Dorian staff, as one of its principals said: “I’ve never seen devastation like that in my life.”Rupert Roberts, the Super Value chief, told Tribune Business

EDITORIAL: FNM must coax the country back to fiscal health

OBVIOUSLY many PLP leaders have still not grasped the message Bahamians sent them on May 10. Having suffered the worst defeat of any political party in the history of this country, these arrogant politicians still seem to be tone deaf.

EDITORIAL: FNM must coax the country back to fiscal health

OBVIOUSLY many PLP leaders have still not grasped the message Bahamians sent them on May 10. Having suffered the worst defeat of any political party in the history of this country, these arrogant politicians still seem to be tone deaf.

Physicians urged: ‘Target 2o% of $2bn health care spend’

Physicians were yesterday urged to “take over the industry of medicine” and target 20 per cent of the $2 billion spent annually by Bahamians on health care.

Super Value chief calls for pricing, exemption clarity

Super Value’s owner yesterday urged the Government to publish its list of Value-Added Tax (VAT) ‘exempt’ items, and called for prices to be confined to store shelves - not the products.

‘Deplorable’ clinic and a failing infrastructure on Spanish Wells

UNREST in the community of Spanish Wells, Eleuthera is at an all-time high, according to the island’s Chief Councillor Robert Roberts who said conditions there have deteriorated to a degree never before seen by residents.

Davis re-emerges as the top male bowler

Davis re-emerges as the top male bowler By BRENT STUBBS Senior Sports Reporter bstubbs@tribunemedia.net After more than a decade of inactivity due to the closure of the Village Bowling Lane, Leonardo 'Lee' Davis and Driskell Rolle re-emerged as the top