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Man must compensate brother for fight
A MAN was ordered to pay $3,000 in compensation and bound to keep the peace for one year yesterday after admitting to stabbing his brother during a fight.
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Stop ‘getting every dollar’ out of Abaco
A prominent Abaconian has blasted the “bureaucratic red tape” that is preventing the island from making further progress on a post-Dorian economic recovery that he estimates its 60-65 percent complete.
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Investors ‘get wise’: RF funds up $60m
A Bahamian investment bank yesterday said total assets under management in its local currency mutual funds have increased by $60m year-to-date as investors “get wise” to the negative returns on bank deposits.
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RISE programme to be formally launched next month
SOCIAL Services Minister Obie Wilchcombe announced Friday that the RISE programme will be formally launched next month to further strengthen the ministry’s social assistance programme that has a budget of $21m.
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Darville: No further relaxation of COVID rules
DESPITE the recent decrease in the number of active cases, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Michael Darville said there won’t be any further relaxations of COVID-19 restrictions.
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Fidelity’s $500k behind but ‘still on $25m track’ despite falling
Fidelity Bank (Bahamas) is “still on track” to deliver $25m in full-year profits despite falling $500,000 behind pace at the 2022 half-way mark, its top executive said yesterday, as he looks to merchant services to close the gap.
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Students attend Grand Bahama college fair
GRAND Bahama high school students met recruiters from 21 colleges and universities in the US and Canada during a college fair held in Freeport yesterday.
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Court asked to decide Cavalier’s $54k VAT bill
The Supreme Court will be asked to determine if a Cavalier Construction affiliate must pay an outstanding $54,161 VAT bill owed by the insolvent contractor, it has been disclosed.
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Shaping tennis diamonds at BLTA’s ‘Play Tennis Bahamas’
THE “Play Tennis Bahamas” programme resumed on Saturday at the National Tennis Centre where kids ages five to 17 years old were instructed in tennis.
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Non-profit group returns to help Abaco
ON the third anniversary of Hurricane Dorian, a non-profit organisation helping people and communities impacted by disasters returned to Abaco last week to start their third phase of relief work focusing on home repairs and giving residents who have been displaced or living in unhealthy conditions, a safe, secure and functional home.
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Gov’t goes high-tech for taxes 5% up on Budget
The Government is employing satellite imagery and artificial intelligence (AI) to boost revenue collections that are 4-5 percent ahead of projections for the 2022-2023 fiscal year to-date, a top official disclosed yesterday.
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$63m Adelaide project pledges up to 300 jobs
A Bahamian businessman is teaming with Albany’s developer and two UK investors for a $62.788m “mixed-use” residential and light industrial development in south-west New Providence that will create up to 300 full-time jobs.
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Top revenue collector eyes 2/3 expansion to 500 staff
The Government’s main revenue agency is targeting a further two-thirds expansion of its workforce to around 500 staff, a top official revealed yesterday, adding: “We have no staff in the Family Islands.”
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Murder accused admits damaging ankle monitor
A MAN was sent to the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services yesterday after admitting to damaging his ankle monitor while on bail for murder.
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Shark attack
The shark mauling of a visitor off Green Cay is horrific and our hearts go out to the family caught in this nightmare.
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Bank to ‘double’ dividend on pre-Dorian profit return
Commonwealth Bank will this month “double” its quarterly dividend payment, and return more than 27 percent of year-to-date profits back to shareholders, as it forecasts returning to pre-Dorian annual profits of $50m-$60m for 2022.
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EDITORIAL: Flyaway leaders while people left in need
TWO contrasting stories in today’s Tribune show how people living in the same country can be worlds apart.
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New asphalt plant commissioned
WORKS and Utilities Minister Alfred Sears commissioned a production facility, the Astec Double Barrel Six Pack Asphalt Plant, on Friday.
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Collins parking plan tackles ‘national parking dilemma’
A prominent doctor says a proposed 15-storey parking garage and residential condo complex on Collins Avenue represents his contribution to solving what he described as a “national parking dilemma”.
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Taxi plates issuance branded ‘a big mess’
Drivers yesterday asserted that the Road Traffic Department has been forced to suspend the issuance of new taxi plates because some have ended up “in the hands of hooligans”.
