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Investor confidence 'growing in Grand Bahama'

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said the groundbreaking for a new $4-million Colonial Group International (CGI) Building in Freeport yesterday indicated a growing investor confidence in the revival of Grand Bahama’s economy.

Resort workers’ health ‘of paramount importance’

IN the wake of complaints and concerns following the death of a cook last week, Michelle Malcolm, Director of Public Affairs at Resorts World Bimini, says the health and welfare of the resort’s employees are of “paramount importance”.

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New recruits follow in footsteps of Dr Judson Eneas

FOLLOWING the tragic COVID-19 death of Dr Judson Eneas, founder and medical director of RenalMed Associates Medical Centre, the facility has welcomed two new doctors to its team.

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Heart Institute hosts seminar for business community

FREEPORT – The Okyanos Heart Institute, slated to begin operating on Grand Bahama in early 2014, has already begun to make an impact within the local community.

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Good Samaritans to bring tent facility to expand patient capacity

THE Samaritan’s Purse organisation - which offered assistance in Abaco and Grand Bahama in the wake of Hurricane Dorian - has partnered with the government to provide a 28-bed COVID-19 isolation and treatment unit.

GB eyeing multi-million boost from two projects

A Cabinet minister yesterday hailed two multi-million dollar investment projects as providing a much-needed boost for Grand Bahama’s Dorian and COVID-19 ravaged economy.

Stem cell therapy advances put Grand Bahama on medical tourism map

THE Global Regenera Conference opened in Freeport on Friday at the Grand Lucayan Resort, bringing many experts in the field of regenerative medicine to Grand Bahama to discuss the latest advancement in technology and research in stem cell therapy.

Doctors opens Medical centre

THE Bahamas Medical Centre, on Blake Road, which will play a key role in Doctor’s Hospital’s international patient programme, is now officially open.


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Thompson: don’t delay Grand Bbahama investments

EAST Grand Bahama MP Kwasi Thompson is urging the government not to delay the various investments in Grand Bahama that were already approved under the former Minnis administration.

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Four more ventilators donated

THE Ministry of Health has received four ventilators to help the fight against COVID-19.

Beware of election promises

ELECTION TIME is here again and so are the promises. Promises, we might add, without any reference to the Public Treasury. Bahamians should be aware of the times in which we live and don't depend on election promises -- even in

Bahamas Waste helps educate graduates

Bahamas Waste has done its bit to empower and educate Bahamian youth this summer by taking on two interns, one in its maintenance department and the other in the medical waste department.

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'Red-letter day' for West End as $2m community clinic opens

THE opening of a newly renovated $2-million West End Community Clinic was “a red-letter day” for the residents of West End, who for the first time will now have access to trauma and 24-hour ambulance/EMS services in their community.

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Businesses make sure there is a gift

FREEPORT – Local businesses are continuing to bring smiles to the children at the Grand Bahama Children’s Home, while making an important impact on the home’s resources thanks to holiday donations.

Freeport awaits $85m medical school boost

The government has given “approval in principle” to a medical school that could ultimately inject $85m in annual spending into Freeport’s economy, it was revealed yesterday.

Contract signed to renovate Hawksbill Clinic

SIX weeks of renovations and improvements to the Hawksbill Clinic, costing almost $200,000, will start next Tuesday after the government and hospital officials signed a contract yesterday with Pinnacle Investment Construction Company Ltd.

DOCTORS TARGETING JUNE ON WESTERN RE-OPENING

By NATARIO MCKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net DOCTORS Hospital plans to re-open its Western Medical Plaza in June, its president telling Tribune Business yesterday that some $1.2 million would be invested to ready the outpatien

DOCTORS TARGETING JUNE ON WESTERN RE-OPENING

By NATARIO MCKENZIE Tribune Business Reporter nmckenzie@tribunemedia.net DOCTORS Hospital plans to re-open its Western Medical Plaza in June, its president telling Tribune Business yesterday that some $1.2 million would be invested to ready the outpatien

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Eastern New Providence hotspot as cases surge to 21

PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis confirmed yesterday that Kim Johnson-Rolle, a 57-year-old Bimini resident and mother-of-three, is the country’s first known COVID-19 death.

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Workers Call for new public hospital in Grand Bahama

HOSPITAL workers took to social media to call for a new public hospital in Grand Bahama following closure of the Rand Memorial Hospital after it was severely flooded during Hurricane Dorian in early September.They are concerned that the facility – wh