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Butler-Turner questions oversight of Buildings Act

THE House of Assembly yesterday passed a bill to amend the Buildings Regulation Act in order to significantly increase the penalties people who breach the law could receive.

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Bring authority to the change process

“I want to tell you something that will transform your business. But I do not like to give my ideas out because too many people steal them.”

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Why borrow $252m from IMF, asks PLP’s Cooper

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party deputy leader Chester Cooper yesterday questioned why the Minnis administration will borrow $252 million from the International Monetary Fund.

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Human rights group supports laws to stop marital rape

LOCAL advocacy group Human Rights Bahamas said it supports government’s efforts to criminalise spousal sexual abuse.

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DPM: Dutch blacklist ‘premature response’

The Deputy Prime Minister yesterday branded The Bahamas’ “blacklisting” by the Netherlands as a “premature response” that undermines the European Union’s (EU) own anti-tax evasion offensive.

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Activists claim government using hurricane to get rid of Haitians

RIGHTS Bahamas said the government’s policy of using the excuse of Hurricane Dorian to “ethnically cleanse the country of Haitian people” whether they have broken the law or not is “brutal” and “illegal.”In a statement released yesterday, the advocac

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Culmer blasts ‘Gussie Mae’ Cabinet

FREE National Movement chairman Carl Culmer criticised the Davis administration’s “Gussie Mae” Cabinet, which he says contradicts the Progressive Liberal Party’s promises of fiscal prudence.

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BPL workers to vote on whether to strike

MORE than 500 Bahamas Power and Light (BPL) workers will vote today on whether to strike in protest of unresolved issues with BPL’s management.

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Court urged to act on Bimini dredge permits

Opponents of Bimini’s controversial cruise ship dock are urging the Court of Appeal to prod the developers into disclosing whether they have obtained the necessary dredging permits, following the arrival of a massive dredger off the island’s coast.

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A dream is a goal with a deadline

In Habakkuk 2:2 the Lord tells the prophet, “Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.” The key to successful goal-setting is revealed in this scripture.First, the vision must be written down. When you keep a v

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Shot dead as he rode motorcycle

A MAN is dead and a woman is in hospital after a shooting incident on McQuay Street last night.

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EDITORIAL: We need a Marshall Plan for Haiti

They came in their hundreds to mourn the dead.

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Love Beach is not feeling the Passion

Love Beach residents have united in opposition to a prominent Bahamian developer’s condominium project amid fears it will “bulldoze” the area’s property values and deter further investor interest.

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Economic emancipation of The Bahamas

I hope one day our country can produce leaders who can inspire the minds of Bahamians and awaken their consciousness of its responsibility to the economic liberation of our country.

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Killing The Bahamas

LAST week, a man was sentenced by a magistrate to a mere ten months for possession of a nine millimetre pistol, an instrument whose only purpose is to kill or injure human beings. According to police, upon arrest the accused made a statement rationalising his possession of the weapon on the grounds of his need for protection, having stolen $2,000.00 worth of drugs from another drug dealer. So far from minimising his culpability, the explanation contained an admission of another serious criminal offence.

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New senator backtracks over public disclosures

THE FNM’s new Senate pick Lanisha Rolle backtracked from an opinion she expressed last year highlighting her grievances with the Public Disclosures Act, telling The Tribune yesterday “the law is something one must comply with”.

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Row over song ‘highlights need for hate speech laws’

THE uproar sparked by a controversial song making the rounds on social media demonstrates the urgent need for hate speech laws in The Bahamas, prominent attorney Fred Smith, QC, said yesterday.

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Hopes of rise in the minimum wage

LABOUR Director Robert Farquharson said yesterday that after initial research, he was optimistic that there would be an increase in the private sector minimum wage.

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A COMIC'S VIEW: Oh so now you care about attention to detail over Oban

THE Minnis administration apparently is still in “good faith” talks with Oban Energies, over a proposed oil refinery in Grand Bahama.

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A Christian encounter with spoken word – Noted slam poets to perform in Nassau

In an effort to reach the country’s young people with ministry that is both spiritually enriching and academically beneficial, Grace Community Church has invited a renowned group of American slam poets to the Bahamas.The group, whose members live in