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‘The public is better off’: Eliminate price controls

Super Value’s principal yesterday urged the Government to abolish the price control regime rather than expand it, arguing: “Consumers will be better off.”

Lightbourn Trading likely purchaser for ex-City Markets HQ

BAHAMIAN wholesaler Lightbourn Trading is the party in negotiations to acquire the former City Markets head office and warehouse complex from the supermarket chain's staff pension fund, Tribune Business can reveal, with the Finlayson family hoping to exit majority ownership of the latter "by the end of this week".

FNM details plans to tackle crime

THE Free National Movement has outlined its goals to fight crime should the party win the next general election, noting in its recently released Manifesto plans to establish a national neighbourhood watch programme in every community, re-institute term limits for the commissioner of police, establish a sexual offenders register and enforce Marco’s Law.

What Aidan taught me and John Hopkins

Hundreds gathered in St Anslem’s Catholic Church on Friday for the funeral of two-year-old cancer victim Aidan Carron.

INSIGHT – THE FIRST YEAR: The ongoing battle against nation's crime

AS Maxine Roberts was making funeral arrangements for her murdered 14-year-old daughter Jeffonya Rolle, she did not imagine exactly one month and a day later she would be doing the exact same thing for her son Tekoyo “Minky” McKinney.Seven years afte

‘Total devastation’ if VAT was put at 15%

Super Value’s principal yesterday said increasing the VAT rate to 15 percent would have inflicted “total devastation on the economy” with food prices set to rise 10-15 percent in the New Year.

Realtors slam ‘foolish’ $1m residency reform

Top realtors yesterday warned the Government it would be “foolish” to double the permanent residency investment threshold to $1 million, estimating it could undermine up to 60 per cent of active real estate developments.

A royal visit for survivors

WILBERT Roy Widdicombe and Robert Tapscott were found on a beach on Eleuthera in October 1940, the sole survivors of a British merchant ship which had been sunk off the coast of Africa two months earlier. The sailors survived a perilous journey on the high seas, but as we reveal in the second part of their story, tragedy was to strike again in both their lives.

COLELOQUIAL: The Great Parliamentary Show

ON the morning I write this, I recognise, in my favourite western-area coffee shop, and seated snugly in the corner but in view of the door, the former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham, a character missing from the dramedy cast profiled here, but looking very well-rested in his retirement.

No BPL ‘rush job’ trap on billion-dollar needs

THE Government must not allow Bahamas Power & Light’s (BPL) “dire” billion-dollar needs to trap it into an energy reform “rush job”, a former Chamber of Commerce head urged yesterday.

EDITORIAL: Universal Health Care or Socialised Medicine?

WHILE Health Minister Dr Duane Sands is to be commended on his announcement regarding Universal Health Care, we, as Bahamians, need to answer some fundamental questions as to the future of our public healthcare before we go any further down this slippery slope of a single payer, income-tax funded socialised medical system, such as they have in Canada and the UK.

Carifta team named

THE Bahamas Swimming Federation has selected a 36-member team, all of whom have made the qualifying standards, along with ten competitors for the Open Water swim team that will travel to Martinique next month to defend the title at the Carifta Swimming Championships that the Bahamas has won for the past two years.

Delaying convention for gender referendum ‘sounds like an excuse’

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party stalwart and former Cabinet minister George Smith said Bahamians deserve a better explanation from PLP officials as to why it has postponed its convention until November of this year, a date that will be close to the 2017 general election.

Super Value eyes 5-8% growth post-VAT adjust

Super Value’s owner is hoping for a 5-8 per cent year-over-year sales increase for February and March 2016, telling Tribune Business: “The signs are there.”

Symonette urges govt to release details of all the buildings it rents

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette yesterday challenged the government to release the details of every building it leases or rents “once and for all” and allow the public to decide to what extent cronyism and conflicts of interest exist in front-line politics.

Symonette support for Wilchcombe on Baha Mar

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister Brent Symonette yesterday said he supports Tourism Minister Obie Wilchcombe in his calls for the government to suspend its winding up petition against Baha Mar, insisting that the government “continues to waste time that should be spent fixing the problem”.

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