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MP’s firm fighting $450k blaze claim
FIRE destroyed four residential units in Harbour Island when an unlicensed gas company owned and operated by North Eleuthera MP Rickey Mackey performed services there in June 2018, plaintiffs allege in court documents.
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Defendants face ‘onus of proof’ on foreign tax fraud
Reforms to the penal code will place the “onus of proof” on foreign residents of The Bahamas to demonstrate they have not defrauded overseas governments, Cabinet ministers said yesterday.
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Cameron put May behind high wall
Your columnist article: EU felled UK PM is interesting but for accuracy has to be rebutted.
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So just how serious is our PM about CARICOM?
Just how serious is the Prime Minister when it comes to CARICOM? Stayed one day and flew off to New York for a personal event, an award from UWI Alumni Association. Congrats on the award!
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The problem is the way we vote now
Enact ranked choice voting. Anyone who endorses democracy and understands our voting process can tell you our system is flawed. The two-party system is clearly dysfunctional: Party tribalism divides and distracts us, and who wouldn’t want more options in political representation? I doubt anyone is satisfied with what’s currently available at the voting booth.
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DPM blasts ‘unpatriotic’ 35% devaluation claim
The deputy prime minister yesterday slammed “false rumours” of a 35 percent currency devaluation and second VAT hike as “unpatriotic” for threatening The Bahamas’ economic stability.
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WORLD VIEW: Time that Caricom used the voices of all its members
The English-speaking Caribbean has just emerged from a season manifesting the spirit, intrinsic to Christmas, of ‘peace on earth and goodwill to all’.
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$42m damages warning to hotel condo owners
Old Bahama Bay’s condo owners could be exposed to a $42m-plus damages claim for alleged “tortuous interference” with the resort’s sale as part of the former Ginn project’s $2.8bn revival.
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Nurses threaten – 'we won't turn up'
BAHAMAS Nurses Union President Amancha Williams yesterday suggested nurses will not be showing up for their new shifts next month as she maintained there was no legal grounds to penalise non compliance.
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Union chief claims BPL hired 50 foreign workers
BAHAMAS Electrical Workers Union President Paul Maynard claimed yesterday that around 50 non-Bahamians were set to be brought on at Bahamas Power and Light in the aftermath of 314 workers receiving voluntary separation packages.Expressing his anger a
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Man ordered to pay former wife $340,000
THE Court of Appeal has ordered a man to pay his former wife over a quarter of a million dollars within the next two months or risk the 3,000 shares he holds in his $1.1 million investment company being sold at public auction to satisfy the court order.
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Who's in the skin?
When doing some shopping just last week I overheard the statement: “My spirit really took to her!”Amazingly enough, the listener rebutted, “Really? To this day, I don’t take to her at all!”I smiled to myself, thinking how I would love to meet this pe
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IBM project pits computer against human debaters
IBM pitted a computer against two human debaters in the first public demonstration of artificial intelligence technology it’s been working on for more than five years.The company unveiled its Project Debater in San Francisco on Monday, asking it to m
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Driver who struck biker must pay family $30,000
A MAN ordered to pay an interim sum of $30,000 in financial assistance to the family of a motorcyclist he killed after hitting him from behind with his truck nearly three years ago has had his legal bid to get out of paying that sum dismissed by the
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Stan gets his Sideburns trimmed
If you hurl a metaphorical rock into a room full of satirists it’s a safe bet the one that lampoons you in his cartoon the next morning is probably the one you hit.
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WORLD VIEW: External interference in Caribbean elections is real
BEFORE getting into the thrust of the serious and threatening matter that lies at the heart of this commentary, I declare that I was an integral part of the management of the campaign of the Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) for the March 21 General Election, and I managed its communications campaign.
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Kickback demands kept investors away
PRIME Minister Dr Hubert Minnis again accused the Christie administration of being corrupt, telling the House of Assembly last night he has heard that some foreign investors have been hesitant to do business here for fear of being asked for a “so-called incentive”.
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Termination of 2,500 from civil service a 'breach of union agreements'
THE government’s unilateral decision to terminate over 2,500 people from the civil service is a “concern” and represents a breach of union agreements, Bahamas Public Services Union President Kimsley Ferguson said yesterday.Mr Ferguson also called Att
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Retrial ordered for man in nightclub shooting
THE Court of Appeal has ordered a retrial for a man previously sentenced to 35 years in prison for murdering another man outside of a nightclub in Abaco six years ago in what he previously claimed was an accident.The appellate court, in a written rul
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Minnis: Financial sector is 'dying'
THE financial services sector is “dying,” Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis said Saturday while stressing the importance of creating new economic pillars.