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EDITORIAL: So many left hungry in our nation

YOU don’t have to look far to see signs of how hard life is for many Bahamians.

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‘One more big investment’ to turn around GB fortunes

Grand Bahama businesses are “optimistic” on the prospects the Carnival Cruise Line groundbreaking ceremony for its new port destination gives for the island, but say that the island needs one more huge investment for it to turn the fortunes of the residents.

GBPA must accommodate Electra group

Grand Bahamians are both happy and cautiously optimistic about the pending sale of the state-owned Grand Lucayan Resort to Electra America Hospitality Group for $100m.

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Work permit clampdown in restaurants, construction

LABOUR Director Robert Farquharson says his department has denied labour certificates in all restaurant manager applications and in the vast majority of applications for construction site supervisors and project managers since September, preventing the applicants from getting work permits.

EDITORIAL: Get ready to pay extra in fees

THE devil’s in the detail, so they say.

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Rivals to Absorb closed shipper's 15% market share

Some 13 Bahamian jobs will be lost through a shipping line’s closure, although the Nassau Container Port’s chief executive yesterday said its 15 per cent market share would be absorbed by other carriers.

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FNM asks private sector to help urban workers

FREEPORT - The FNM is appealing to the private sector to partner with them in finding employment for the 42 Urban Renewal workers here

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Success feeds on your customers

THESE days the world's obsessed with feedback, and often for good reasons. I am not sure whether it was the marketing industry that navigated us from the days of "Joe's a great guy" and "Mary does a fantastic job", but that's history. Governments publish department league tables as if they owned a baseball league. Virtual suppliers and customers on the Internet closed the loop with formal feedback systems.

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Critics told to 'give Christie a chance'

A FORMER PLP candidate advises critics of Prime Minister Perry Christie's new 21-member cabinet to give the nation's leader the "benefit of the doubt".

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Buyer chosen for Grand Lucayan ‘by end of month’

DEPUTY Prime Minister Chester Cooper anticipates that the government will choose a buyer for the Grand Lucayan resort by the end of this month, after which a contract for the purchase of the hotel will soon be executed.

Gov’t to create $15m SPV intermediary for egg plan

THE Government will create an off-balance sheet special purpose vehicle (SPV) to facilitate the $15m project designed to drive The Bahamas to 100 percent self-sufficiency in egg production.

Gov’t to create $15m SPV intermediary for egg plan

THE Government will create an off-balance sheet special purpose vehicle (SPV) to facilitate the $15m project designed to drive The Bahamas to 100 percent self-sufficiency in egg production.

PM'S PLEDGE TO GRAND BAHAMA

PM'S PLEDGE TO GRAND BAHAMA By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said the FNM government will deepen its programme of reform and modernisation nationally, and advance economic re

PM'S PLEDGE TO GRAND BAHAMA

PM'S PLEDGE TO GRAND BAHAMA By DENISE MAYCOCK Tribune Freeport Reporter dmaycock@tribunemedia.net FREEPORT - Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said the FNM government will deepen its programme of reform and modernisation nationally, and advance economic re

ATLANTIS DEAL SUNK

ATLANTIS DEAL SUNK By CELESTE NIXON Tribune Staff Reporter cnixon@tribunemedia.net IT is unclear what the future holds for the Atlantis resort and One&Only Ocean Club after the ownership transfer agreement with Brookfield Asset Management was cancelle

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Bahamas run 'into the ground' by FNM and PLP

THE FNM and the PLP have governed the Bahamas "into the ground" through fiscal recklessness and irresponsibility, DNA leader Branville McCartney said.

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Mixing business and home ownership

I HAVE always regarded my home as my castle, and the place to rekindle my energy. I also enjoy pottering in the garden, and doing odd jobs around the place. I was therefore surprised to find an article on TechCrunch the other day that suggested I am wayward. I am not totally convinced, but I decided to share the theory anyway.

Without leadership, nothing gets done

THE reason that the Opposition was rejected at the polls after a single term cannot be clearer. There was no leadership. The Christie administration was the weakest, most incompetent and most unproductive government in an independent Bahamas. The scandals

Without leadership, nothing gets done

THE reason that the Opposition was rejected at the polls after a single term cannot be clearer. There was no leadership. The Christie administration was the weakest, most incompetent and most unproductive government in an independent Bahamas. The scandals

Without leadership, nothing gets done

THE reason that the Opposition was rejected at the polls after a single term cannot be clearer. There was no leadership. The Christie administration was the weakest, most incompetent and most unproductive government in an independent Bahamas. The scandals