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Turnquest: PLP should help fix things, not just criticise
AS the government forges ahead with plans to restore storm-ravaged islands, Deputy Prime Minister Peter Turnquest said the country would be better served if the official opposition made contributions on fixing issues rather than criticising efforts.
Baker's Bay alone a $1bn Dorian loss
Dorian-related insurance losses are “heavily skewed” towards Abaco with one resort development potentially accounting for $800m to $1bn worth of claims by itself. Charles Johnson, a Bahamas Insurance Association (BIA) council member, told the annual
Dorian damages bill soars to $3.4 billion
THE cost of Hurricane Dorian’s impact on the Bahamas is $3.4bn, more than a quarter of the country’s GDP, according to the Inter-American Development Bank.
No GB jobless survey till 2021
The Department of Statistics may not undertake a survey of Grand Bahama’s jobless levels until May 2021, its acting director revealed yesterday.Leona Wilson explained that a combination of post-Hurricane Dorian fall-out, with the Department’s Grand B
'Shanty clean-up has to happen'
ATTORNEY General Carl Bethel said it can’t be argued that removing debris from Abaco’s destroyed shanty towns violates a Supreme Court injunction.
Like so many missing - silence
IT has been seven painstaking and worrisome weeks for relatives of Tanario Lowe, an Abaco native not heard from since the day before Hurricane Dorian destroyed the island. “We don’t know what to think or what to do, or where to go from here,” his si
Fly Fishing AGM was ‘dog and pony show’
THE Bahamas Fly Fishing Industry Association’s (BFFIA) annual general meeting (AGM) has been slammed as a “disaster” and a “dog and pony show”, with one group telling Tribune Business it no longer recognizes it as the industry’s voice.
Abaco Club opponents in partial Privy Council win
Activists yesterday won a partial Privy Council victory in their battle to prevent public interest legal challenges from being priced out of the Bahamian justice system.
INSIGHT: Rebuilding homes is easy, putting lives back together is the biggest challenge
Hurricane Dorian has been nothing short of apocalyptic for many survivors who escaped the Category 5 hurricane’s fury over Abaco and Grand Bahama. While it is possible rebuilding the infrastructure of these islands could run into the billions, a greater cost is the rebuilding the lives of the survivors.
An unrelenting dilemma
“One of the critical issues that we have to confront is illegal immigration, because this is a multi-headed Hydra that affects our economy, our health care, our education systems, our national security, and also our local criminality.”
Temple Christian Suns take home track and field title
The Temple Christian Academy Suns were the most dominant primary school in basketball this year. They carried that momentum over to track and field where they out-classed their rivals in the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture’s Frank “Pancho” Rahming National Primary School Track and Field Championships.
$30m investment set to aid 25,000 Bahamians
Some 25,000 Bahamians and 150 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are projected to benefit from a $30m investment to unlock the country’s ‘blue economy’ potential and enhance coastal protection.
15th Cacique Awards
A COUPLE who opened some of Abaco’s early hotels and worked to preserve kerosene-fuelled lighthouses are winners of the Lifetime Achievement Award for the 15th Cacique Awards.
Sebas: $6.4m Abaco dome contract leaves ‘bitter taste’
Sebas Bastian last night said his Brickell Management Group (BMG) had “a bitter taste in our mouth” after losing money on the $6.4m contract to construct 213 dome homes in Abaco post-Hurricane Dorian.
DORIAN BREAKS ‘CANNOT GO ON’: Aid for hurricane-hit areas costing treasury purse ‘$50m a year’
The Ministry of Finance’s top official last night warned that Dorian-related tax breaks “cannot go on indefinitely” in their present form as they are costing the Public Treasury “probably $40m-$50m per annum or higher”.
Officers’ ordeal in Dorian recovery
A CRIME scene investigator testified in the Coroner’s Court yesterday how he and a team of officers retrieved numerous bodies of victims who were trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings after Hurricane Dorian in 2019.
Fred Smith pleads for no more demolitions until court rules
FRED Smith, QC, made an impassioned plea for government to cease further demolition until the Supreme Court has made its final ruling on whether a standing injunction, which bars the government from evicting shanty town residents and disconnecting services in their communities, will be extended to cover unregulated communities in Abaco.
Rebuild could cost ‘billions and billions’
A Cabinet minister last night predicted it will cost “billions and billions” to rebuild Abaco and east Grand Bahama’s infrastructure after the “awesome challenge” laid down by Hurricane Dorian.
Putting Sir Roland Symonette into context
Over 39 years since his demise, Sir Roland Symonette, first premier of The Bahamas, remains a lightning rod and a polarising political figure among Progressive Liberal Party (PLP) supporters who are unwilling to exonerate deceased members of the Bay Street Boys and their heirs.