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TOUGH CALL: ‘Beautiful beyond description’ but Little Harbour faces change
A FEW years ago, I visited Little Harbour on Abaco – a solar-powered community of some 50 homes encircling a picturesque cove near Cherokee Sound.
Dorian: We haven’t done enough
THREE years after Hurricane Dorian devastated Abaco and Grand Bahama, Prime Minister Phillip “Brave” Davis admitted that progress to have the islands restored to normalcy has been slow and not enough has been done to assist residents with rebuilding efforts.
HURRICANE DORIAN UPDATES: Latest on airport operations
HURRICANE Dorian could intensify into a “very damaging” 156mph Category Four storm that lingers for hours in the Bahamas, according to AccuWeather senior meteorologist Dan Kottlowski yesterday.
Abaco residents recall Hurricane Floyd ahead of Dorian arrival
FOR Abaco residents, nothing encourages storm preparation like memories of Hurricane Floyd, the storm that devastated the island twenty years ago.
BPL ‘nowhere close on any of the islands’
BAHAMAS Power & Light (BPL) is “nowhere close to where we want to be on any island”, its chief executive has admitted, as it seeks to avoid a repeat of last summer’s outages in Nassau and three other markets.
Haitian deportations 'hit Dorian rebuilding'
A former finance minister yesterday warned that the speed of Abaco’s post-Dorian reconstruction could be undermined by the government deporting much of the necessary workforce back to Haiti.James Smith, also an ex-Central Bank governor, told Tribune
'Caught with pants down' on contractor regulation
Two past Bahamian Contractors Association (BCA) presidents yesterday said Hurricane Dorian had “caught the government with its pants down” when it came to the industry’s self-regulation.Both Leonard Sands and Stephen Wrinkle told Tribune Business tha
WEDNESDAY UPDATES: Hurricane Nicole
Speaking this evening, Acting Prime Minister Chester Cooper said in Eleuthera, Andros and New Providence “schools and universities will resume classes tomorrow (Thursday) and all government workers are asked to return to duty.
Nurses stage second protest over mould at Abaco clinic
NURSES at the Marsh Harbour Clinic in Abaco initiated a sit-out yesterday because of an unresolved mould infestation issue caused by a faulty air-conditioning unit.
NEMA assesses tornado damage
MURPHY TOWN, Abaco – An assessment team lead by Captain Stephen Russell, director of the National Emergency Management Agency, conducted an inspection of the damage caused by a tornado that stuck the settlement last week Thursday.
Christie: Abaco win would be icing on the cake
AFTER a convincing general election win, taking North Abaco will be “the icing on the cake” for the PLP, Prime Minister Perry Christie said.
EDITORIAL: Take storm Nicole seriously
OF all the people in our nation, the ones who need to be reminded least of the importance of taking a storm seriously are the people of Abaco and Grand Bahama.
Dorian housing alternatives ‘would have been a fraction of the cost’
DISASTER Reconstruction Authority Chairman Alex Storr said there were several options for temporary housing after Hurricane Dorian, adding that if there had been practical thought, the results would have the former government spending a “fraction” of the $4.6m it expended on domes in Abaco.
Police 'calm tensions' after fatal stabbing
Police 'calm tensions' after fatal stabbing By SANCHESKA BROWN Tribune Staff Reporter sbrown@tribunemedia.net POLICE in Abaco have moved quickly to "calm tensions" after a Bahamian man was allegedly stabbed to death by a man of Haitian descent on Satu
COVID’s lockdown drove 10% Nassau energy usage drop
New Providence’s energy demand decreased by just ten percent at the height of the first COVID-19 economic lockdown in April last year, an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) report has revealed.
Water Corp sees cash collections decline by $6m
The Water and Sewerage Corporation continues to endure COVID-19’s “devastating impact” on cash collections which have decreased by 24 percent or nearly $6m year-to-date, its executive chairman said yesterday.
32 new cases and one more death confirmed
THIRTY-TWO new COVID-19 cases and one more virus-related death were recorded in the country between Friday and Saturday, pushing the nation’s tally to 8,551 with 980 of those cases still active.
Bannister reveals ‘decisive’ action is just weeks away
WORKS Minister Desmond Bannister yesterday promised “relentless” and “decisive” action will be taken in an Abaco shanty town before the end of this month.
Tom Brady joins in on fund-raising for Dorian victims
SOME of the biggest names in sports have expressed an interest in lending assistance to the Hurricane Dorian relief effort. New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, a frequent visitor to the Bakers Bay Golf and Ocean Club during the NFL offseason
Tax breaks extended for Grand Bahama and Abaco
THE government has extended tax breaks until the end of the year to support ongoing Hurricane Dorian recovery efforts on Grand Bahama and Abaco. The Minnis administration will also reduce customs duty on fishing and farming equipment among other ite