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Why can't news report just the facts?
Government media … use of super-super superlatives in newscasting and reporting. Surely I am not the only one who has noticed the government news media uses extra-super superlatives in their reporting... forget the usual world famous... “internationally renown” that’s again even if the matter is in conceptual form only anything the Government puts its name to is world beating.
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GB airport demolition start 'within 30 days'
The deputy prime minister yesterday pledged demolition work at Grand Bahama International Airport will begin "within the next 30 days" after the Government "executed an agreement" with the UK operator.
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FRONT PORCH: Museums overlooked - but important to tell our story
APARTHEID, the system of institutionalised racism and minoritarian rule in South Africa, formally existed from 1948 to the early 1990s. It was steeped in a history of slavery, colonialism, and the warring for political and economic control between competing groups and powers.
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FRONT PORCH: A fitting memorial for the Jubilee?
BUILDINGS and monuments are more than physical structures. They may also serve as memorials, as extensions of the soul, as commemorative landscapes recalling certain events and histories, summoning new generations to inscribe their stories on a living tradition or history.
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Gov’t eyes purchase of Freeport’s Bazaar
The Government is exploring the potential acquisition of Freeport’s derelict International Bazaar site as the location for its proposed African-Caribbean products marketplace.
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Royal Caribbean’s PI club in DEPP construction go-ahead
Royal Caribbean’s Paradise Island beach club was yesterday revealed to have passed another regulatory hurdle by obtaining a Certificate of Environmental Clearance (CEC) for the construction phase.
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BNT and Agriculture sign lease agreement for development of national park in Eleuthera
THE Bahamas National Trust yesterday signed a lease agreement with the Ministry of Agriculture and Marine Resources for the development of the Seahorse National Park at Sweetings Pond and Hatchet Bay Cave in Eleuthera.
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$3m Governor’s Harbour project in 45 full-time jobs
A developer is aiming to invest $3m in constructing a 49-unit subdivision and full-service marina at Governor’s Harbour that will create 45 full-time jobs once build-out is completed.
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FTX’s Bahamas liquidators gain mediator in Ray battle
FTX’s Bahamian liquidators will aim to resolve multiple disputes with their US counterparts when mediation begins next month following the appointment of a retired US judge to act as referee.
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Biggest investment since Morton Salt for ‘decimated’ Long Island
The proposed $250m Long Island cruise port is being touted as the first “large-scale project” with “regenerative” potential to impact the southern Bahamas since Morton Salt arrived in Inagua almost 70 years ago.
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Vacation rentals ‘too hard’ is reputation to be avoided
The Bahamas must avoid earning “the reputation that it is too hard to do vacation rental properties” with all the extra tax and regulatory obligations it is imposing on the industry, an attorney warned yesterday.
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Ex-US embassy property targeted for 48-slip marina
A prominent Bahamian contractor is seeking approvals to dredge more than 40,000 cubic yards of fill to make way for a 48-slip marina located at the rear of a former US embassy property opposite Arawak Cay.
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Deputy PM: Strong investor interest in Grand Bahama, big announcements coming
DEPUTY Prime Minister Chester Cooper, Minister for Tourism, Investments, and Aviation, said there is strong investor interest in Grand Bahama and that there are some big announcements coming soon for the island.
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Deputy PM: New Grand Bahama airport on track to open first quarter of 2025
DEPUTY Prime Minister Chester Cooper, Minister of Tourism, Investment, and Aviation, said the development of a new airport in Grand Bahama is still on track for opening in the first quarter of 2025.
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Dream of a Freeport Utopian city
Freeport as a Start-Up City and the creation of the world’s first AquaMarine Economy Model.
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Central Bank takes $9m hit over abandoned HQ project
The Central Bank yesterday revealed it has been forced to write-off almost $9m after the project to construct its new Royal Victoria Gardens headquarters was abandoned, with further impairment charges likely in 2023.
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Skills Council to assess industry's labour needs
A Cabinet minister yesterday revealed a Skills Council will be formed to assess the labour needs of each industry as he unveiled plans to combine various training schemes into one National Apprenticeship scheme.
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EX-PM demands Central Bank HQ deal explanation
A former prime minister yesterday demanded an explanation for why the Central Bank’s proposed new headquarters building at Royal Victoria Gardens in downtown Nassau was “terminated’.
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Second Gender Based Violence prevention Family Island Coordination Council launched in Grand Bahama
The second Gender Based Violence (GBV) prevention Family Island Coordination Council was launched in Grand Bahama on Friday.
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City’s ‘turned the tide’ without Central Bank
The Downtown Nassau Partnership’s (DNP) co-chair says the city has “turned the tide” on its revival despite the Central Bank’s decision to terminate development of its new headquarters at Royal Victoria Gardens.
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