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Mexican official flies with $1.9m in luggage
By E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and MIGUEL ANGEL HERNANDEZ CASTILLO Associated Press VERACRUZ, Mexico (AP) -- A Mexican state official was detained as he got off a government-owned plane with $1.9 million crammed into a briefcase and a backpack, prosecutors anno
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Does government plan to go into health insurance business?
ACCORDING to PLP Chairman Bradley Roberts the Bahamas’ private insurance companies want to form their own “monopolistic cartel with unfettered powers to raise premiums to ensure profits.” Mr Roberts claims that the private companies want no government involvement in universal health insurance, the implementation of which is only a month away.
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A COMIC'S VIEW: Rest in peace to the king of Blow
GEORGE Jung, the marijuana turned cocaine smuggler whose exploits included several jaunts through The Bahamas and served as the inspiration for the biopic Blow in 2001, has died at the age of 78.
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Amid the drugs and the violence, soccer lifts a city
TORREON, Mexico (AP) -- Gunfire crackled during the game, with players and referees running for cover. Outside Santos Laguna's soccer stadium, gunmen had opened fire on a police patrol. No one was killed this time. This was just the daily fallout from the
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Mexican journalist disappears, feared kidnapped
PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) -- A police beat reporter at a newspaper in northern Mexico and her infant son are missing and they are feared kidnapped, a newspaper official said Tuesday. Reporter Stephania Cardoso works for the El Zocalo newspaper in the cit
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Controversial way to save The Bahamas
For many Bahamians, we believe that the country is nearing the crossroads of destiny.
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Bahamas urged to ‘modernise’ retail pricing
The Bahamas needs to “modernise” its entire retail pricing system, a senior Chamber of Commerce executive said yesterday, arguing that this nation should fall into line with major jurisdictions by using ‘shelf pricing’ as opposed to ‘item pricing’.
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FRONT PORCH: From Norman’s Cay to Nygard Cay
The sordid and dark chapters in Bahamian history linking Norman’s Cay, Exuma, to Nygard Cay, New Providence, are deeply woven into the political narrative and entrenched culture of corruption of the Progressive Liberal Party (PLP).
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Crime in The Bahamas does not affect tourism
Educated statements of Ministers are supposed to be the norm, but week after week, we hear what can only be described as political mumbo-jumbo – verbal rubbish unfounded and unsupported by facts.
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Numbers houses may face tax hike
AS people increasingly use gaming houses as a means to move money in view of some clearing banks closing branches throughout the Bahamas, there is worry that this unregulated activity may put the country on an international “black list,” affecting the stability of the country’s banking sector, Tourism Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar told Parliament yesterday.
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Bahamian gas prices in 60-day wait on oil drop
Bahamian gasoline prices could take 60 days to decrease in line with the plunge in global oil prices, a top local executive said yesterday. Keith Glinton, regional manager for Sol Petroleum (Bahamas), the Esso distributor, told Tribune Business: “I
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Webshops insist ‘We pay our fair share’
Web shops yesterday slammed the Minister of Tourism’s “reckless” attack on the sector’s taxes and regulation, charging he was “out of touch with the industry he supervises”.
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My remedy for the bank and mortgage industries
IN 2008, at the peak of the credit crunch, Hank Paulson, secretary to the Treasury and a former chief executive of Goldman Sachs, coerced the US Congress to bail out the big banks, including his previous employer. Paulson claimed that the entire financial system was on the verge of collapse, because access to bank credit (and 'shadow bank' credit), had come to a virtual standstill.
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The two PLPs
ALFRED Sears is running on the PLP ticket for Fort Charlotte. He ran for leader of the PLP against Perry Christie, with the message that the PLP will lose under the Christie leadership. Is
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Drinks producer’s lime ‘nightmare’
A Bahamian beverage producer has been forced by the “ridiculously” high cost of limes to instead use concentrate in his ‘Switcha’ product line, saying: “It was a matter of survival.”
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PM urged to slow down with NHI rollout
IT NOW seems to be a case of “damned if you do, damned if you don’t”.
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Account limits best game for regulators
Dear Sir,With a Gaming Board of four private individuals, and six Government civil servants, as published on July 26, 2017, on Page 8 of your newspaper, it seems that the Board as well as the Minister need educating on the effects of the gambling law
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Miller says insurance providers ‘don’t give a damn’ if everyone dies
HEALTH insurance providers “don’t give a damn” if everyone in the country dies, Tall Pines MP Leslie Miller claimed yesterday, adding that the government must move full speed ahead with its National Health Insurance scheme without giving much consideration to the concerns of the insurance industry.
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Gold standard reads for our policymakers
Every Bahamian who thinks about our public policies should read these two recent books - short, punchy, and written in non-academic style that anyone can appreciate. The first one is In Gold We
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West worst for police to serve
Almost a week ago, eight people were attacked by hitmen in a well-coordinated shooting, only two people survived, and six others killed, marking this incident as the second recorded mass shooting since 2013 and a similar incident that was reported back in the early 1960’s when the Bahamas was under the British Crown.