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Meeting aims to increase airlift

THE Ministry of Tourism and its partners sought to improve airlift to the Bahamas as they met with airline representatives over two full days of meetings at the Routes Americas Conference in El Salvador, Central America.

Out Island airlift strategy demand

The Bahamas has failed to convert its US proximity into affordable airfare, a tourism executive arguing that a national airlift policy is now needed to develop the Family Islands.

Support given by the US

THE US mission to the Bahamas is working together with the government and the Bahamian people to respond in the aftermath of Hurricane Joaquin.

Tourism set to ‘intensify’ open for business mantra

The Ministry of Tourism will intensify its marketing efforts to let the world know that the Bahamas is “still open for business” after Hurricane Joaquin, as it moves to assist hard-hit Family Island resort operators with re-opening.

$500,000 in hurricane contracts

MORE than $500,000 in contracts have been issued to contractors for the repairs to government buildings in the Central and Southeast Bahamas severely damaged by Hurricane Joaquin in October.

Bahamas spared as Erika turns west

THE Bahamas was spared the wrath of Erika over the weekend, after the deadly storm made an unexpected turn to the west on Friday, taking the country’s chain of islands out of its destructive path.

Web shop donates computers to school

Students at CR Walker yesterday became the beneficiaries of 20 brand new Dell computers in the third instalment of Island Luck’s nationwide computer drive.

Bahamas joins organisation of small island states who face an existential threat due to climate change

AFTER a call by small islands for climate justice, Sir Ronald Sanders, the ambassador for Antigua and Barbuda to the United States and the Organization of American States, has warned that the islands face “a real and present threat” to their existence – and The Bahamas has joined a commission to tackle the issue.

$7.5m PI food store to create 75 posts

A Freeport-headquartered supermarket will break into the New Providence market in 2023 via a $7.5m investment at Paradise Island’s Hurricane Hole redevelopment that will create 75 permanent jobs.

Inland Revenue auditing nine delinquent businesses in Eleuthera

THE Department of Inland Revenue is auditing nine businesses on Harbour Island.

Hotels: Avoid lockdowns via better contact tracing

A Cat Island hotelier yesterday said the government needs to invest more resources in contact tracing so it can avoid having to place islands into weeks’ long COVID-19 lockdowns.

Adrian Gibson tipped for Mortgage Corporation role

LONG Island MP-elect Adrian Gibson has reportedly been pegged to fill the post of Mortgage Corporation chairman, The Tribune understands.

Regattas may return this summer

MARINE Resources and Family Island Affairs Minister Clay Sweeting says he expects several Family Island regattas and festivals will be held this summer once COVID-19 cases remain low in the country.

National Family Island Regatta cancelled for third straight year

For the third consecutive year, the National Family Island Regatta has been cancelled due to the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, National Regatta chairman Danny Strachan has confirmed.

Bahamas islands in awards top spots

The Bahamas has gained four spots among the Caribbean’s top 15 destinations in Travel + Leisure magazine’s World’s awards.The Exuma Cays, the Abacos and Harbour Island were voted ‘Best Islands in the Caribbean, Bermuda and the Bahamas’. Harbour Islan

No tiger on the loose, say police

REPORTS of a Siberian tiger “running wild” around Long Island have been dismissed by local police, with authorities confirming they are only investigating the sighting of a large animal they expect could either be a “huge cat” or “domestic dog.”

Athol Island

The former “Most Honourable Prime Minister” Dr Hubert Minnis, will undoubtedly go down in history as The Crown Land Prime Minister, if for no other reason than his largesse in this sphere. I don’t know if there is any register anywhere where one can discover what Crown Land any particular Prime Minister transfers, from the Crown or Treasury to private citizens and Corporations, but it would surely make interesting reading in this case.

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