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A changing world and The Bahamas
The world is changing rapidly and the way forward for countries like The Bahamas needs to be reinvented. As a nation, we are impacted by global warming and need to find ways to both protect and take advantage of this challenge.
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Vaccination move is shot in the arm
TOURISM Minister Dionisio D’Aguilar said he thinks allowing fully vaccinated travellers to The Bahamas without a negative COVID-19 RT-PCR test will make the country a more attractive destination for visitors.
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Hospital ‘must beat misperception’ that it’s not affordable
Doctors Hospital “must beat misperceptions” that its healthcare services are too expensive to be accessed by middle and lower income Bahamians, its chief financial officer says.
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‘Step up to the plate and get the jab done’: Top tourism executive warns jobs, economy on line
Bahamians are endangering their jobs, incomes and families through resistance to taking the COVID-19 vaccine, a senior tourism official warned yesterday in urging: “Step up to the plate and get it done.”
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Throwers take advantage of Blue Chips meet
AMIDST the postponement of the CARIFTA Games and not too many meets to compete in, throwers are taking advantage of the Blue Chips Throwers Club’s series of events at the Thomas A Robinson Track and Field Stadium.
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Collie Jr joins MLB Draft League
DOMINIQUE Collie Jr has taken advantage of a new Major League Baseball initiative to help collegiate prospects in their exposure ahead of the league’s annual draft.
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2,000 new voters on register
NEARLY 2,000 people have been added to the voter register in the weeks following the Parliamentary Registration Department’s launch of several sites to expand the existing register in preparation for the next election.
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Sydney Clarke and Blazers pull off 7-0 victory
ON a cold and chilly St Valentine’s Day on Sunday, Sydney Clarke and her University of Arlington at Birmingham Blazers had nothing but love to offer Alabama A&M after pulling off a 7-0 whitewashing victory.
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IDB: Just 54% of COVID loan firms still doing business
The effectiveness of the government’s COVID-19 small business support has been called into question by a report that found just 54 percent of loan recipients have remained operational.
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BTC targets 60% Internet ‘migration’
The Bahamas Telecommunications Company (BTC) is aiming to switch 60 percent of Internet customers to its new network technology by 2023 as it seeks to “reclaim the market leader mantle”.
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Minister issues challenge: Develop ‘projects of scale’
A Cabinet minister has challenged Bahamian entrepreneurs to develop “projects of scale” that can accommodate hundreds of cruise ship passengers in similar manner to Atlantis.
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‘Distinguish’ Nassau through five-year tax break extension
The Downtown Nassau Partnership’s (DNP) co-chair has hailed the government’s five-year tax break extension for giving investors certainty and helping to “distinguish” Nassau’s city from other areas.
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FRONT PORCH: We need more local AND international talent
Comparing nations and jurisdictions on various socio-economic and developmental metrics is sometimes quite useful. But such comparisons often require caveats, nuances and an appreciation of context. Even as there are apt analogies there are also areas that are disanalogous.
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STATESIDE: We’ve not even had 100 days of Biden and all eyes are on 22’s elections
Coverage of the US Senate is everywhere in American media these days.
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‘The kids needed this scrimmage’
WITHOUT any formal competition for his Freedom Baptist Academy teams to compete in, coach Josiah Major was delighted to take advantage of the scrimmage against the Diamond Basketball Development Programme.
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Moultrie ‘worst Speaker in history’
A FORMER Cabinet Minister has accused the current House Speaker of being the worst in Bahamian history.
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FRONT PORCH: So much to gain by playing the long game
IT is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent. – Charlie Munger (Warren Buffet’s long-term partner in Berkshire Hathaway).
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Owners cool on indoor dining move
RESTRICTIONS banning indoor dining have now been lifted for those who are fully vaccinated, but some restaurants seem sceptical about embracing it.
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Tech bubble or opportunity?
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Numerous stocks from the technology sector have recently been hit hard. Is the Opportunity there now to buy or leave it alone?
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‘Pent-up’ demand to invest post-election
Significant “pent-up demand” should fuel an increase in Bahamian capital market investment activity heading into 2022 with over $400m in transactions at various stages of readiness, a top banker said yesterday.
