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Gov’t targets early Club Med re-open

The Government was yesterday said to be working with Club Med in a bid to ensure its San Salvador resort re-opens earlier than late 2022 and sparks “a 180-degree turn” in the island’s economy.

WORLD VIEW: There’s no such thing as ‘turns’ for Commonwealth Secretary-General

THE announcement by the President of Kenya Uhuru Kenyatta that his government has nominated the country’s energy minister, Monica Juma, for the post of Commonwealth Secretary-General, has re-opened the contention surrounding “turns” to hold the post.

There has to be an accounting of money spent

SUDDENLY, the Christie government has discovered that the world is in an economic crisis, which strangely is retarding the growth of the Bahamas’ economy. However, when the slump came shortly after the Ingraham government took over the administration in 2007, Mr Christie, then in Opposition, was apparently unaware that the world was in trouble, and that the Bahamas, as a part of that world, was also in financial hot water.

Joaquin ‘exacerbates bad economy’ on Long Island

The devastation wrought by Hurricane Joaquin will “only exacerbate an already bad economic situation” on Long Island, its MP revealing that many of its young persons were leaving in search of jobs elsewhere.

Roker says Gomez should clarify reasons for quitting

FORMER Immigration Minister Loftus Roker said yesterday that Central and South Eleuthera MP Damian Gomez should make the circumstances surrounding his resignation from Cabinet clear.

Sandals slams union’s untrue lay-off claims

Sandals Royal Bahamian’s general manager yesterday dismissed as “mischief” claims that the all-inclusive resort was set to terminate 129 employees, as the trade union body responsible for making them swiftly withdrew the allegations.

Miller: BEC doing good job this summer

BAHAMAS Electricity Corporation (BEC) Chairman Leslie Miller believes the corporation is doing a good job supplying electricity to Bahamians this summer, despite complaints from residents about power outages.

Who is responsible for your empowerment?

EVERYBODY, well almost everybody, gets into the habit of looking to be empowered by someone, some job, some title or even some relationship.

Scotiabank confirms 50 possible job cuts

Scotiabank (Bahamas) yesterday confirmed that around 50 staff may lose their jobs as a result of its restructuring exercise, which will result in six branch closures and the downsizing of two others.

YOUR SAY: Including all Bahamians the key to moving forward together

AN economy that leaves no one behind is the only way we as a nation can move forward, together.

Bahamas gets high marks for hosting of CISC

FELIX Calderon gave the Bahamas Swimming Federation high marks for the staging of the XXI Caribbean Islands Swimming Championships.

Over one-third of poorest Bahamians don’t finish school

More than one-third of the poorest young Bahamians have failed to complete secondary education, perpetuating income inequality and lack of job opportunities through successive generations.

$22m apprenticeship scheme ‘not like 52-week programme’

THE government will launch a $22m apprenticeship programme aimed to reduce youth unemployment, Prime Minister Christie announced during his 2016/2017 Budget Communication yesterday.

Passport Office is opened on Cat Island

PRIME Minister Phillip Davis returned to his constituency yesterday to open Cat Island’s first passport office in a move that was welcomed with open arms by residents there.

Businesses ‘not asked to do Inland Revenue’s job’

A Cabinet minister yesterday denied that the Government is “asking business persons to do the Department of Inland Revenue’s job” by providing the agency with their landlord’s property tax assessment number.’

‘No one doing anything for West end’ as vote looms

NO more jobs. No gas station. No relief from giant potholes in the road.

Bell resists UN call to suspend deportations to Haiti as situation spirals out of control

DESPITE calls from United Nations officials to suspend deportations to Haiti, Immigration Minister Keith Bell said The Bahamas has “a job to do” to ensure that officials protect the country for Bahamians.

Thompson: We don't need speeches, we need action

SENATOR Kwasi Thompson dismissed last month's Speech from the Throne as "promises on a sheet of paper" and expressed doubts the government would be able to deliver on the items listed.

Will Greece decide the fate of the Bahamas?

Will Greece decide the fate of the Bahamas? "Like frogs we have settled on the shores of this sea," wrote Plato in describing the early beginnings of ancient Greece and its people who inhabited the shores of the Aegean Sea and over the centuries exported

Bureaucracy delays 200-job pig farm

A MAJOR pig farm project on Grand Bahama is still moving forward with more than $1 million already invested to-date, an executive telling Tribune Business that bureaucratic hold-ups had frustrated plans to create up to 200 direct jobs.

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