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INSIGHT: Causes of crime not new, but deepening – what now?
“Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Conservation advocates call on Bahamas govt to join Pacific island nations on oil non-proliferation treaty
CONSERVATION advocates are calling on the government of The Bahamas to join Pacific Island nations, as well as Antigua and Barbuda, among other jurisdictions, international entities and prominent individuals, in endorsing the initiative for a Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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Economic output beats pre-COVID by $295m
Bahamian economic output for the 2023 first-half was last night said to have beaten pre-COVID comparisons by $295m in a signal that this nation is now moving beyond post-pandemic reflation.
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‘Noble objective’: Aviation in annual 15% stopover growth
The Government’s ambition to increase stopover tourist arrivals “by a minimum” 15 percent per annum via the National Aviation Strategic Plan was yesterday hailed as “a noble objective” by sector participants.
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Bright spots for The Bahamas
Informed observers have long understood the persistence of regressive tax policies to be one of our biggest development challenges since independence.
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Food Task Force urgency may have hurt efficiency
The speed and urgency with which the COVID-19 Food Distribution Task Force had to be created will likely mean some elements were not executed “in the most efficient or effective way”, a governance reformer argued yesterday.
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Export agency seeks ‘orange economy’ link
A Caribbean export agency yesterday said it is seeking to partner with the Government to enable The Bahamas’ cultural and creative industries to fulfill their true economic potential.
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Budgeting to face future challenges
* In the second of a four-part series, Hubert Edwards argues that the Government had limited options with the 2021-2022 Budget due to a paucity of resources
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Tech winners and losers of 2020
We streamed, we Zoomed, we ordered groceries and houseplants online, we created virtual villages while navigating laptop shortages to work and learn from home. In many ways, 2020’s pandemic-induced isolation threw our dependence on technology into overdrive, snipping away at our real-life connections while bringing digital relationships to the fore.
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Get-rich-quick Ponzi schemes to be illegal
THE Minnis administration passed legislation in the House of Assembly yesterday that seeks to criminalise Ponzi schemes that have over the years defrauded Bahamians of hard-earned money.
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Second airline targets pre-flight COVID test
Another airline yesterday announced it was working with the Government to implement pre-flight COVID-19 testing for all passengers travelling to The Bahamas.
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Resorts hail airline over pre-flight COVID testing
Bahamian resorts yesterday hailed American Airlines' plan to conduct pre-flight COVID-19 testing on all international travellers coming to The Bahamas as an “excellent” initiative.
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WORLD VIEW: Climate change is killing the Caribbean one cut after another
AMID the feverish work to cope with both the public health and economic effects of COVID-19 on their populations, Caribbean governments can be forgiven for dropping their guard against the existential dangers posed by climate change.
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Realtors hail 'awesome' exchange control relax
Realtors yesterday hailed as “awesome” the Central Bank’s proposal to relax exchange controls on residential property deals involving foreign buyers and sellers with effect from October 1. The regulator, in a four-page document outlining its liberal
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Royal College of Surgeons Fellow helps bring back house call doctors
Dr Susan Williams-Lockhart appointed head of Bahamas Wellness Health System's mobile division
Former flight service physician, acute care specialist and Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons Dr Susan Williams-Lockhart has been appointed clinical director of the Bahamas Wellness Clinic with responsibility for its mobile medicine division.The
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Symonette stands firm on changes
THE opposition’s criticism of amendments to the Immigration Act is a “political red-herring”, Immigration Minister Brent Symonette said yesterday.
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Minister admits credit costs and access obstacle
A Cabinet minister yesterday admitted credit costs and access must be eased for Bahamians as he defended the government’s work permit reforms against opposition criticisms.
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Work visa reform to ‘jumpstart’ tech hub
Immigration reforms tabled by the government in parliament yest
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BPL renewable energy plan still in ‘draft phase’
BAHAMAS Power & Light’s (BPL) $95m deal for new electricity generation “ties in” to its renewable energy plans, a senior executive has confirmed, although these are only in “draft phase”.
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GB Chamber chief: Make Enterprises Bill more 'flexible'
THE Commercial Enterprises Bill should be made more “flexible” by including “attributes” other than direct capital outlay in the $250,000 investment calculation, a businessman urged yesterday.Mick Holding, the Grand Bahama Chamber of Commerce’s presi
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