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Sentence delay in plea bargain case
A FORMER Scotiabank loans officer who admitted his involvement in the theft of $1.3 million from the bank appeared in Supreme Court yesterday expecting to be sentenced to a year in prison in accordance with his plea bargain agreement.
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PM denies union’s Cable pre-election pledge fears
A trade union leader yesterday voiced doubts that the Prime Minister will live up “a pre-election commitment” to bring BISX-listed Cable Bahamas to the negotiating table.
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‘Cut out of the deal’
FORMER employees of the Lyford Cay Club say that they were “cut out of the deal” struck by the Bahamas Hotel, Catering and Allied Workers Union (BHCAWU) and the Bahamas Hotel and Restaurant Employers Association.
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Minister hopeful of kfc progress
Minister hopeful of kfc progress By CELESTE NIXON Tribune Staff Reporter cnixon@tribunemedia.net LABOUR Minister Dion Foulkes said he is tentatively hopeful about the progress of negotiations between KFC Nassau and union officials. Following several hou
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Minister hopeful of kfc progress
Minister hopeful of kfc progress By CELESTE NIXON Tribune Staff Reporter cnixon@tribunemedia.net LABOUR Minister Dion Foulkes said he is tentatively hopeful about the progress of negotiations between KFC Nassau and union officials. Following several hou
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Minister hopeful of kfc progress
Minister hopeful of kfc progress By CELESTE NIXON Tribune Staff Reporter cnixon@tribunemedia.net LABOUR Minister Dion Foulkes said he is tentatively hopeful about the progress of negotiations between KFC Nassau and union officials. Following several hou
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Teachers' union tells Gibson: Our dispute is not resolved
BAHAMAS Union of Teachers President Belinda Wilson has rejected Labour and National Insurance Minister Shane Gibson’s claim that the Government has resolved the BUT’s Industrial Agreement issues.
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Act changes to eliminate Industrial Tribunal 'conflict'
Planned legal amendments will eliminate a ‘potential conflict’ that requires the Industrial Tribunal to act “as judge, jury and executioner” over industrial agreements, a union leader yesterday telling Tribune Business that “90 per cent” of these deals were not registered.
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Resistance of the Rastafari is a lesson for us all
THE use of force is still very much a part of the foreign policy and diplomatic considerations of all states, even small ones. nIn the latter case, what they consider is not using force themselves, but force being used against them.
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Be 'even handed', unions tell Gov't on enforcing law
A UNION leader last night demanded that the Government be “even handed” and enforce the law requiring employers to meet and negotiate with recognised bargaining agents within 45 days.Obie Ferguson, the Trades Union Congress (TUC) president, told Trib
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Realtors: Dorian tax breaks 'plus' as vultures hover
Bahamian realtors yesterday hailed the government’s post-Dorian Economic Recovery Zone incentives as a “big plus” but warned other measures were required to kickstart the rebuild.Mike Lightbourn, Coldwell Banker Lightbourn Realty’s president, told Tr
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EDITORIAL: Pennies for Paradise Island deal
AT last, the details of the lease granted to Royal Caribbean for Crown Land on Paradise Island have been revealed – and what a bargain it is for the company. Not so much, perhaps, for the nation’s Treasury.
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Union to consult lawyers over lost KFC wages
Union to consult lawyers over lost KFC wages By KHRISNA VIRGIL kvirgil@tribunemedia.net KFC employees could take legal action to recover wages lost when the chain shut down after the company refused to continue business without a new industrial agreemen
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Union to consult lawyers over lost KFC wages
Union to consult lawyers over lost KFC wages By KHRISNA VIRGIL kvirgil@tribunemedia.net KFC employees could take legal action to recover wages lost when the chain shut down after the company refused to continue business without a new industrial agreemen
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Sandals rejects union busting claim
Sandals rejects union busting claim MANAGEMENT at Sandals Royal Bahamian yesterday condemned allegations of union busting and staff intimidation. Calling remarks by Bahamas Hotel Maintenance and Allied Workers Union (BHMAWU) officials slanderous, the res
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Sandals union: We will ‘not sit quietly’
The Bahamas Hotel Maintenance & Allied Workers Union (BHMAWU), which is the bargaining agent for the 600 Sandals Royal Bahamian employees, said yesterday that it would “not sit quietly” in the wake of the wake to the resort’s decision to make employees redundant, calling it “a sad day for the labour movement”.
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Customs staff told to work shift system or lose pay
CUSTOMS and Immigration Officers who do not adhere to the shift system will face pay cuts, Labour Minister Shane Gibson confirmed yesterday.
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Mystified by commentary
Hearing the pronouncements of Mr Williams, Acting Director of Public Prosecutions, and the subsequent media statements from Minister Wayne Munroe, QC, and Attorney Christina Galanos in reference to the plea-bargained sentence handed to the 40-year-old gentleman who admitted to having sexual intercourses with a then 14-year-old girl, I remain mystified by their logic.
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Labour director sees outsource dispute rise
The Director of Labour says employee outsourcing by Bahamian companies has provoked a number of disputes, particularly in the financial services and hotel industries.“There have been a number of matters from trade unions that had a small pocket of th
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Price of a plagiarist
EDITOR, The Tribune
