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Alleged $22m PI fraudster served via DPM’s law firm
Receivers have been forced to serve legal proceedings on a Paradise Island resident accused of committing a $22 million fraud via Deputy Prime Minister Philip Davis’s law firm, Tribune Business can reveal, as they seek to recover $7.1 million allegedly transferred to the Bahamas.
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A COMIC'S VIEW: Is there a plot to jettison Minnis? His advisers are not making him look too hot
Let me open this week by saying, as a professional comedian with 23 years in the industry, you can’t write the comedy of errors that unfolded before our eyes this week any funnier.
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EDITORIAL: The final destruction of Baha Mar
IN his statement last week on China’s new restrictions on overseas investments by its nationals, Foreign Affairs Minister Darren Henfield, in reply to a Tribune reporter’s question, said he had not mentioned the position of Baha Mar in his press release because “it is sold and (in the process of completion).”
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DIANE PHILLIPS: View from the sidewalk
IT’S amazing what trying to look at something through someone else’s eyes can reveal.
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Briland resort enjoys 33% revenue surge
A Harbour Island hotelier yesterday said the Christmas holidays were “bananas as usual” with December 2022’s revenues 33 percent ahead of pre-COVID comparisons for that month.
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Public health system’s 40% financial wastage
Up to 40 per cent of funds spent in the Bahamian public healthcare system go to waste, the Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce’s president yesterday arguing this made it impossible to have “a fully functioning” National Health Insurance (NHI) or any other scheme.
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$300k Memories guarantee creates Lucayan dispute
The Christie administration’s continued payment of $300,000 per month to Hutchison Whampoa, despite the Memories resort’s closure, is central to an ongoing dispute over the Government’s Grand Lucayan deal.Tribune Business can reveal that, as part of
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Oceania Owners 'busting our ass' on turnaround
A LEADING homeowner at Exuma’s controversy-torn Oceania Heights project yesterday expressed disappointment that just 27 per cent of property owners had to-date paid their 2014 maintenance fees, telling Tribune Business he and several others were “busting our ass to turn this around”.
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DIANE PHILLIPS: Silent longings for a sense of community
I went missing last week, not literally, but from the regular routine of work, eat, sleep, work, eat, sleep, and found myself accidentally in small town America. How I got to where I’d had no idea I was going is probably the funnier part of the story, but the consequences of what I found when arrived were interesting enough to give pause for thought, a whole heap of pause, in fact, and the takeaway was both greatly satisfying and stomach-bubblingly unsettling.
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FACE TO FACE: A remarkable life detailed in a folder telling the story of one of our nation’s builders
The “Father of Paediatrics” in The Bahamas was laid to rest this weekend, signalling the passing of yet another of our great nation builders. Time goes on, as it must, but it is right to take time to honour those who paved the way, paying tribute to their life and work.
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Realtors warn: 'Don't break the economy'
Leading realtors yesterday urged the government not to “break the economy” as they warned that the mandatory 14-day quarantine facing all visitors will bring the international market to a halt.John Christie, HG Christie’s president and managing broke
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FACE TO FACE: A family living up to the legacy of a legend
WHEN a giant of a man leaves the imprint of his footstep on this Earth, it can be seen for generations to come.
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POLITICOLE: 40 for 40 - with years comes wisdom
IN LESS than a week, I will have my fifth coming of age. If I had to offer wise words to anyone, young or old, after 40 years of life experience, here is what I’d say:
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INSIGHT: Why do projects wither on the development grapevine?
MASTER winemakers know that producing a grand vintage depends on more than just the raw materials. No matter how lush the soil, how old and precious the vines, how ideal the weather in a given year, if you wait too long to harvest, the grapes will wither and die on the vine. In wine as in life, timing is everything.
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