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CHEATS ABUSING FOOD HANDOUTS: Families making multiple requests for help at sites to secure extra assistance

NATIONAL Food Distribution Task Force chairman Susan Larson said there have been instances of “abuse” of the system, causing delays at distribution sites as officials try to verify legitimate requests.

INSIGHT: A mistake that Dr Minnis can’t afford to repeat

IT was only nine months ago that COVID-19 was still a new phenomenon we were watching from afar.

First steps to 'eating a planning elephant'

A Cabinet minister yesterday pledged the Government is taking the first steps to "eat the elephant" and end the 10-year wait for Land Use Plans that are demanded by Bahamian law.

Sands accuses govt of blundering by: • Having no coherent plan to tackle crisis • Vilifying public for COVID spread

FORMER Health Minister Dr Duane Sands said Monday’s sudden lockdown and subsequent policy reversal will make it “infinitely more difficult for the government now to win the public confidence again”.

EDITORIAL: We’ve won the first round of this fight - time to do it again

THERE is good news and bad news in the fight against COVID-19.

Time to get the 'boot' off financial services' neck

Until The Bahamas adjusts its business model or approach to delivering financial services it will be vulnerable to the vagaries of international (supra-national) agencies and developed countries seeking to destroy it as an international financial cen

Davis: We support worldwide protests over Floyd killing

PROGRESSIVE Liberal Party leader Philip “Brave” Davis said yesterday his party stands in solidarity with the protests across the world over the killing of George Floyd, the African American who died last week while being detained by police officers in Minnesota.

In politics, we are mere actors on the stage

It is ironic that on today’s date, a Sunday and Mother’s Day coupled with the third year of the FNM in power, the sky is overcast and it looks like a shower will fall down later. We all know that when it rains the crabs start to walk. The masses of the Bahamian people have woken up from what turned out to be a long and unexpected nightmare.

Sebas blasts PM on gaming closure

Island Luck’s principal last night accused the prime minister of “targeting” the domestic gaming industry and its 3,500 employees after he ordered the sector to close once more. Sebas Bastian, in a messaged response to Tribune Business inquiries, qu

Shoppers flock to stores as shutdown bites

RESIDENTS in New Providence flocked to grocery stores yesterday shortly after Prime Minister Dr Hubert Minnis announced the five-day lockdown.

'Screwed' if we don't use covid-19 to truly reform

The Bahamas will be “screwed” if it does not use the “unique opportunity” provided by the COVID-19 pandemic to restructure itself for a sustainable 21st century future, it was argued yesterday.Roderick Simms, a former Chamber of Commerce director who

Ex-AG slams 'absurdity' of financial crime listing

An ex-attorney general has slammed the “absurdity” of the criteria that will determine whether The Bahamas should be removed from an anti-financial crime monitoring list. Alfred Sears, pictured , said the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) asserti

Time to ground the dinosaurs of Bahamasair

Seldom have we seen politicians over-react to a tempest in a tea-cup like we have seen over Bahamasair and whether or not three of their aircraft can enter US airspace.

We need state of the art courts, says Moree

CHIEF Justice Brian Moree yesterday called for the construction of a new “state of the art” court complex, as he said the current facilities are all in “various states of disrepair” and “are not suitable for a modern court system”. The country’s top

PLP defends social security plan in wake of IDB report

ENGLERSTON MP Glenys Hanna Martin yesterday chastised the government for scrapping a $5m welfare reform project “without just cause”, calling it proof the government is more committed to “gimmicks” and “politically sexy” interventions than alleviating human suffering.

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