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Carnival’s $100m cruise port must ‘bring jobs back’

The Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce’s principle yesterday called on the $100m Carnival cruise port to hire local contractors and workers as a way to “bring jobs back” to the island.

UPDATED: American man dies after motorcycle crash on Cat Island

AN American man died after the motorcycle he was driving crashed into a utility pole on Cat Island on Saturday.

Bahamian-born Sharlene Cartwright Robinson elected first female premier of Turks and Caicos

BAHAMIAN-born Sharlene Cartwright Robinson has become the first female premier of the Turks and Caicos Islands after leading the People’s Democratic Movement (PDM) party to victory in the general elections.

Showers and thunderstorms on the way

MORE rain has been forecast, with showers and thunderstorms predicted across the islands for tonight and the week ahead.

Jet flies relief supplies into the ‘hell zone’

RESIDENTS in San Salvador yesterday compared living through Hurricane Joaquin to being trapped in a “hell zone”, the storm so violent and devastating that it seemed like something “you would only see in a movie”.

Biggest investment since Morton Salt for ‘decimated’ Long Island

The proposed $250m Long Island cruise port is being touted as the first “large-scale project” with “regenerative” potential to impact the southern Bahamas since Morton Salt arrived in Inagua almost 70 years ago.

Sandals expansion awaits ‘overwater’ policy reforms

Sandals is proposing to expand its Fowl Cay property through the development of ten “overwater” bungalows in “anticipation” that the Government will finally end the two decade-plus wait for a policy governing such structures.

Adapt to tourist profile so we ‘blow past’ 2019

Family Island hotels must adapt to a visitor demographic profile that has been flipped upside down over the past decade if they want to “blow past” pre-COVID numbers, a top tourism official is warning.

LATEST HURRICANE JOAQUIN ALERT FROM BAHAMAS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY

ALERT #9 ON HURRICANE JOAQUIN ISSUED BY THE BAHAMAS DEPARTMENT OF METEOROLOGY THURSDAY 1ST OCTOBER, 2015 AT 3AM EDT.

Gov’t Joaquin costs could exceed $56 million

Prime Minister Perry Christie said yesterday that the total cost to repair government buildings and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Joaquin has been pegged at $56 million, although this could drop to $34 million depending on which option is chosen to repair Acklins’s roads.

Hurricane repairs have begun - but not reconstruction yet

NATIONAL Emergency Management Agency Director Captain Stephen Russell yesterday said while repair efforts are underway in the islands’ hardest hit by Hurricane Joaquin, officials are still discussing the rebuilding of homes in vulnerable areas.

Govt approved for $28m loan to improve water supply

THE Caribbean Development Bank has approved a $28m loan to assist the government in improving water supply systems in communities in New Providence and the Family Islands, CDB officials said yesterday.

Heavy rain and storm warning for residents in southeast Bahamas

RESIDENTS in the southeast Bahamas were expected to experience pockets of heavy rain and thunderstorms last night, as a tropical wave called Invest 99L continues to move through the islands.

DPM: More health facilities needed in Exuma

DEPUTY Prime Minister Chester Cooper said yesterday there is a need for more health facilities on Exuma.

PM's strong support for bran rival

PM's strong support for bran rival By PAUL G TURNQUEST Chief Reporter pturnquest@tribunemedia.net BRANDING Branville McCartney as a man with unbridled "ambition to achieve power", Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said Bamboo Town now deserves an MP who is

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