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Bahamas sees $715m gain if ‘infrastructure gap’ closed
The Bahamas stands to gain a $715m boost if it invests just $31m to close the “digital infrastructure gap” between itself and the world’s leading economies, a multilateral lender is arguing.
COVID-19 forces Atlantic University sport to a halt
BAHAMIAN student athletes were looking to return from the Atlantic University Sport (AUS) winter break and resume their basketball seasons next week, but the COVID- 19 pandemic has forced the conference to postpone all competition.
Jonquel Jones has double double, Foxes 11-0 in Euro League
JONQUEL Jones and her UMMC Ekaterinburg Foxes returned to FIBA Women’s EuroLeague play for the first time in nearly a month and remained just as dominant as the last time they took the floor.
Bahamian entry changes ‘more alarming’ than CDC
Bahamian tourism operators yesterday shrugged off the latest downgrade by US health authorities, arguing that constant changes in this nation’s COVID protocols are “more alarming” to visitors.
Omicron ‘pushes back’ pre-COVID for tourism
Tourism’s hoped-for return to 2019 business volumes this year has been “pushed back” several months by Omicron with Internet searches for The Bahamas now “half” of pre-COVID levels.
Digital banking can’t be ‘rammed down throats’
A senior banker yesterday said the industry must adopt the “Mary Poppins with medicine” approach in encouraging more Bahamians and businesses to switch to digital transactions.
Attorney fined for contempt
A Bahamian lawyer was fined $35,000 and ordered to pay an additional $20,000 in legal costs after she was found guilty of contempt of court.
International basketball players head into break with wins
TAVARIO Miller helped his club extend their win streak, David Nesbitt scored a season high, and Jaraun Burrows led his club into the break with another season high to highlight Bahamian basketball players in various leagues across Europe and South America.
New location drives 80% of December sales rise for AID
A major Bahamian retailer yesterday revealed that its newly-opened Blue Hill Road and Coconut Grove store was responsible for 80 percent of the December sales increase seen in Nassau.
‘Expect hardship’ from inflation, interest hikes
A former finance minister yesterday warned that “every family can expect hardship” from rising inflation that will exceed the current 7 percent rate in the US.
Ollen Smith looks to get Bahamian prospects in Canada prep basketball
Ollen Smith plans to use his platform at the coaching level to help facilitate the transition for Bahamian prospects to the constantly developing Canadian prep basketball scene.
Dire predictions of how bad it could be
A NEW study has projected that due to the Omicron variant in The Bahamas, daily case numbers could reach a high of 2,610 by February 13.
Wendell Miller - Junior Male Athlete of the Year
VERSATILE sprinter Wendell Miller concluded his time on the junior circuit with a season of milestones, highlighted by a new junior national record in his signature event.
Bahamian farm eyes 1.4m herbs in $60m joint venture
A Bahamian hydroponic producer and its US partner last night revealed they will invest $60m in developing a 71,000 square foot facility able to grow “300 times more food” than a traditional farm.
Top official hopes surge is slowing down
THE country recorded 2,489 cases of COVID-19 in the first clinically monitored week of 2022, according to Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Phillip Swann.
Air Canada’s pause ‘certainly bad news’
A senior tourism official yesterday said he would have been more “worried” if Air Canada had suspended its weekly Exuma flight for commercial reasons rather than COVID-19.
Johnson posts two double doubles
CHRISTOPHER Johnson has emerged as an offensive leader for the Community College of Baltimore County Catonsville Cardinals.
IHOP Bahamas arrival targets up to 130 jobs
A Bahamian entrepreneur yesterday revealed plans to create up to 130 local jobs by making this nation “the anchor for the whole Caribbean” with the IHOP franchise he has just secured.
HUBERT EDWARDS: Reigniting the debate on Bahamian taxation
This will be a very interesting year economically. Continued COVID-19 headwinds, the first true Budget from the new administration and, consequently, the change in “ownership” of prevailing policy positions will definitely cause a shift in perspective.
Shaunae Miller-Uibo Tribune Sports’ Female Athlete of Year
WITH another sterling 400-metre gold medal performance at the COVID-19 delayed 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games a year later, Shaunae Miller-Uibo was in vintage form as she got her name stamped on another Tribune Sports’ Female Athlete of the Year.